Just three things:First, I admit that I didn't follow this trial at all up until Tuesday when the verdict was reached and announced. When that happened it was darn near impossible to read anything but about it. So I took it upon myself to study the case and now that some of the jurors have broken their anonymity and begun talking about it...I have to say that the jurors reached the best verdict that they possibly could. And when some of them say...
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Got to see TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON in 3D IMAX today!
It was this afternoon and my retinas are still exhausted!! Between Michael Bay's signature 'splosions and blowing stuff up real good and all those pretty pixels from Industrial Light and Magic, magnified to ginormous proportions (not to mention the gigawatts of sound coming at ya) it was quite the Transformers experience! I'll recommend seeing it at least once in IMAX 3D as it was certainly worth driving to Durham to catch it there (along with...
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Captain and Tenille find the place where credibility goes to die
Or... something. Still not quite sure what this is. But listen to it too much and you just might be reaching for a glass of whiskey, a gun and two bullets.So here is "Taste The Biscuit" by Toasters 'N' Moose...I would thank Scott Bradford and Kristen Bradford for finding this, except I'm not all that clear about what it is that I would be thanking them for...
Friday, July 01, 2011
Ten best Tom Hanks movies
With his new film (co-starring Julia Roberts) Larry Crowne opening today, it's a great time to reflect upon the career of Tom Hanks: easily among the very most varied and versatile actors in cinema history. Over at Tailgate365, good friend T.J. Lee has compiled an EXCELLENT list of what many will agree are Hanks' top ten movies. Hanks has had a very interesting journey from...
"Gerrymandering is okay when WE do it!"
The Republicans in the North Carolina legislature should just say it and get it over with.Matt Mittan was the first to bring my attention to the just-released maps for North Carolina's newly-redrawn congressional districts.And how has the GOP now "controlling" (I have never liked how a party "controls" a legislature and I don't see how anyone else should like it either) Raleigh done, following decades of Democrat-led gerrymandering?By doing their...
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Steve Jablonsky writes this blog about TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON score CD!!!
When it comes to Transformers: Dark Of The Moon's orchestral score, you can't get much more authoritative a source than the man who composed it! A short while ago Steve Jablonsky sent me an e-mail about the current state of the score album's CD. In it he not only explains what's going on with it, he also provides a fascinating insight into the makings of a major summer blockbuster!So without further ado, here is Mr. Jablonsky...Hi ChrisNice to...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON: THE SCORE is on iTunes!!!
Well, that didn't take very long, did it? :-PSeibertron.com is reporting tonight that Transformers: Dark Of The Moon: The Score is now available on iTunes!All of you know what I will be doing for the next few hours :-) And now you know where to find it too. So go buy Steve Jablonsky's epic score now!!! Or, perish in flame.It's your choice. But, not real...
Cover for the TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON: THE SCORE album
This popped up tonight on Amazon.com's page for the product listing...It's still listed as "Currently unavailable". But we've got the album cover art.That has to be mean something good, right?(Incidentally, at this moment I've got iTunes playing "Decepticons" from Transformers: The Score. With this one track composer Steve Jablonsky did something that had never adequately...
Review of TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Dear Michael Bay: You may now consider yourself fully forgiven for Pearl Harbor.I could also say that you are now also forgiven for the previous Transformers movie, but since you've made up for Pearl Harbor, saying as much would just be redundant.Transformers: Dark Of The Moon... is at last THE Transformers live-action movie that I have dreamed of someday seeing on the big...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Pope Benedict tweets (with an iPad 2!)
This photo is so fascinating, and I can't quite articulate why. Pope Bendict XVI, using an iPad 2 and quite obviously on Twitter, to "tweet" a brief message to inaugurate the Vatican's official news site.And what was the Holy Father's first message in 140 characters or less?"Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings,...
"Jimmy V finally found somebody to hug."
It instantly became one of the most classic moments in sports history.Coach Jim Valvano's North Carolina State - a scrappy team that had fought tooth and claw in defiance of all the odds - against University of Houston for the 1983 NCAA Basketball Championship. Houston: the team of "Phi Slamma Jamma". Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. No wonder one sports writer said that...
Monday, June 27, 2011
An encouragement for those who might need it...
God never writes a "perfect" ending to our story... but He is capable and ready to write each of us a happy endi...
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Germination of the Bhut jolokia has begun!
Awright, I've been putting this off for too long now. I knew that this day would come. Not gonna run and hide anymore. Here, live or die, I will make my stand.This afternoon I began the process of growing my can of Bhut jolokia.And as I said when I first wrote about coming into possession of this stuff back in February, "This is either one of the bravest things that I will...
SESAME STREET riffs on SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK!
It's not a good sign for Broadway's most beleaguered show when none other than Grover is mocking it...That's a promo for Sesame Street and it's forty-second season, beginning in September! Would LOVE to see this as a full-length sketch ...
Friday, June 24, 2011
Someday, this could be a President of the United States...
Aimi Eguchi is a 16-year old music star in Japan, with a loyal following of several thousands of fans. She lives north of Tokyo, has an official website, and enjoys track and field sports.And she doesn't exist outside of a hard drive.Good friend and fellow blogger Lee Shelton was the first to draw my attention to the intriguing but also unsettling story of Aimi Eguchi: a computer-generated composite of six different girls, who until now had fooled...
Weird Tolkien-ish map of "Flat Earth" comes to light... and it's pretty neat!
About the same time that Operation: Desert Storm was going on but before the ground war started in Iraq back in 1991, I read The Hobbit for the first time. Immediately after that I plunged into The Lord of the Rings. And it wasn't long after that when I thought that since I was on such a hot streak that I'd read The Silmarillion as well.And my brain immediately got befuddled...
