“When I’m on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.” It’s a gorgeous name, isn’t it? Beginning with a touch of the nebulous, but nonetheless strong, trustworthy and clear. My earliest memories of Glenn Ford probably originate [...]

Today is Charlie Parker’s birthday. In honor of such, you should treat yourself to his genius. ‘Live at Town Hall with Dizzy’ just became available last year from Uptown Records and captures the upswing of his career admirably.

This is downright teh awesome – transcripts of all the opening messages on Jim Rockford’s answering machine. I got into Rockford from my Mom, (who is responsible for much of my pop cultureyness I suspect, although she’ll probably claim different) who watched all the reruns of Rockford. In point of fact, my mom is probably [...]

I was reading the backstory of the Sen. Allen debacle over at the Washington Post and I can’t even begin to fathom a Senator calling someone ‘macaca’. I’d never even heard the word used as a slur, although true, I generally don’t make a point of knowing all the happening racial slurs. The whole situtation [...]

Snakes on a Plane didn’t do nearly what I was expecting in terms of box office this weekend – finishing second with $13,850,000 under Talledega Nights. I saw it Saturday and was thoroughly entertained, having no expectations whatsoever. Given all the hype surrounding the movie, I guess a lot of it was up in the [...]

Redesigned the dotcom with WordPress to spice things up. Xiaoxin’s been trying to convert me to drupal but it’s become apparent I don’t really need such an extensive CMS- besides the fact I’m still perfectly content to use Joomla for things that do need such management. (Although the differences with drupal’s Hooks and structure are [...]

Expressing an opinion online is like talking to your favorite stuffed animal- sure it may have eyes and ears, but it doesn’t necessarily mean anyone’s listening and there’s a good chance by doing so that you’re certifably insane. But for the sake of hearing myself talk, I continue to ramble on without meaning and today [...]

It’s like the inside of an overcooked pizza pocket (liquid hot MAGMAH!) all over the place, notably in non-bedroom portion of my apartment which includes everything except, well, the bedroom since it has the only working a/c unit. Speaking of apartment, I renewed the lease, because I just wasn’t about to move in this crap. [...]