For those who don't know what that is, it's an annual 24-hour long film festival hosted by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News, at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas. Some consider it to be the most sought-after cinematic event in the country. I got to attend Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 last year and twelve months later there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about the whole crazy experience.Well, for those of us who won't be able to go to...
Saturday, December 13, 2008
So last night was Performance #4 of OLIVER TWIST
I think having all this past week off from rehearsals might have been a good thing, 'cuz everything seemed to have really clicked well during last night's show. We all got into it totally refreshed and ready to knock it out of the ballpark. Also, there was a substantially good audience, despite what apparently was pro wrestling at the National Guard Armory next door which had also drawn a large crowd.Theatre Guild of Rockingham County's production...
Friday, December 12, 2008
Study: Older people are VERY active video game players! But...
...they tend to hide that fact from their contemporaries, according to the story at Financial Post.Personally, I don't see anything wrong, at all, with anyone enjoying a good video game. The story cites Nicholas Muehlen, a fifty-year old dude - and a chef, by the way - who likes to indulge in the Gears of War, Halo and Call of Duty series of games. He and his wife get into the play as much as their grown children.This can't possibly be a bad thing....
Federal Reserve won't say who's getting TWO TRILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money
Either way you cut this, it screams out "biggest heist of all time".The Federal Reserve is refusing to disclose the recipients of $2 TRILLION of emergency loans financed by American taxpayers.On a related note, President Bush is considering tapping into the same funds since the "bailout" failed in the Senate last night.Time to revisit "Hell Époque" post that I made all the way back in January. That was the term that future historians, I'm sure of...
Two essays for those of us who are paying attention
The first one is by Matt Towery at Townhall.com, who ruminates on "Why More and More Politicians are Rotten to the Core". Towery echoes a lot of things that have been on my mind during the past year, which have led me to tell many people more times than I care to remember that "There is no faith to be had in politics".And on the somewhat more ornery side of things, Fred Reed - the Internet's greatest curmudgeon - waxes eloquent in his piece "What...
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Ron Paul tells it like it is about auto bailout (twice!)
You would think that common sense might be prevailing enough. I mean, c'mon... would you buy a car from a company owned by the same federal government that has so brilliantly managed Social Security and Amtrak?So yesterday before the House of Representatives came the Honorable (so rarely do I get to use that term and the person I'm speaking of actually merit it) Ron Paul, and he laid down the smack bigtime on how positively wrong the notion of this...
For good old games, GOG.com delivers
About a month ago I heard about GOG.com. The site - its URL is an acronym for "Good Old Games" - is dedicated to promoting classic computer games from years gone by. So with a lot of folks raving about how good Fallout 3 is since it came out last month and because I never played the original, I purchased Fallout (shown at left) from GOG.com for $5.99 earlier this week. ...
Bible probably not true, Bush says
So, all of you who have held up George W. Bush as a paragon of Christian virtue: how do you 'splain this?George W. Bush, outgoing President of the United States, now says that the Bible is "probably not" literally true.Bush also says that evolution is not incompatible with the Bible.Adding to his statement that he is "not a literalist", Bush also hedged immensely when he said that the most important lesson in the Bible is that "God sent a son". ...
NOT AGAIN! Scantily-clad girls bathe in KFC restaurant sink
What the hell is it with employees bathing in restaurant sinks lately? A few months ago it was "Mr. Unstable" who boneheadedly decided to post a video of himself cleansing in the sink at Burger King in Xenia, Ohio: a stunt that got not only himself but a bunch of others fired.Now it's the KFC in Anderson, California, where three female employees also took a bath in the sink...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Carrie Fisher now sez: STAR WARS wasn't worth it
Carrie Fisher (depicted at right in the "Slave Leia Metal Bikini" from Return of the Jedi) was on The Today Show this morning shilling her new book Wishful Drinking. And she let loose what will no doubt be a shocking revelation to millions of fanboys: that she now regrets having anything to do with the Star Wars movies. That if she had known it would become so popular, Fisher...
Bush Doctrine = Epic Fail
Is there anything more pathetic than a person scrambling against time in a vain effort to ensure that history will be kind to him or her?Perhaps only if that person happens to be a current President of the United States.George W. Bush was at West Point yesterday, trying to spin his eight years in office as a blazing success. The most foolish man to ever occupy the Oval Office actually defended his policy of pre-emptive war (something that had never...
DOOM: Fifteen years of Hell on Earth
Fifteen years ago this morning, on December 10th, 1993, id Software uploaded a zipped-up file to a bulletin board system and an FTP archive on the Internet. The file contained the setup, executable and WAD for the shareware version of the first official release of a new computer game called Doom.And video games haven't been the same since.Yeah, Wolfenstein 3D (also an id...
Redundancy is... (Blagojevich did business as usual, the wrong way)
Today's edition of the News & Record (the big newspaper in Greensboro) has a front-page story - like most other papers across the country this morning - about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich getting arrested for corruption regarding the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.The headline in the News & Record reads: "Senate seat alleged for sale"So when was the last time a Senate seat wasn't for sale in this country?If he did this, then Blagojevich...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Baldwin: Conservatives are practicing "Selective Constitutionalism"
I figured this was going to happen if Barack Obama won the presidential election: self-professed "conservatives" would be quick to blast Obama and the Democrats for violating the Constitution... when in fact those same conservatives have turned a blind eye at every opportunity during the past eight years when "their guy" George W. Bush did the same.That's the kind of hypocrisy that I cannot forgive. And so far as the "Christian" ones go, it tells...
Another classic GARFIELD AND FRIENDS: "Invasion of the Big Robots"
Garfield and Friends rates with The Tick as having some of the most twisted humor done for a Saturday morning cartoon. Like this episode, where Garfield wakes up one morning and finds that he's in the wrong cartoon! I love how the regular kind of Garfield and Friends animation gets mixed up with the futuristic Eighties-style for the Starwolf sequences. And then the Disney-ish look toward the end.First airing on December 2nd 1989, here is "Invasion...
Monday, December 08, 2008
"With sport-utility vehicles at the altar..."
You know, Jesus beat and chased the money changers out of the temple because they had turned His father's house into a den of robbers.So what would His reaction be if he saw His father's house turned into an automobile showroom?A single photo demonstrates how screwed-up America has become...Three vehicles - one from each of the major domestic auto makers - were brought to...
Sunday, December 07, 2008
The first weekend of OLIVER TWIST has wrapped-up
Last night's show played to a fairly strong crowd and this afternoon we had a larger than expected audience that thrilled and laughed at the adventures of Oliver Twist, Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Nancy and the rest. My parents and aunt came to today's performance, and the word from them was that they really enjoyed it.So now we have the rest of the week off until this coming Friday night, when we do it all over again. Which, y'all are most certainly...
