Category Archives: Distractions

It’s Boring, Bill.

In keeping with our impending opening weekend … Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie. Yes. Pre-House.

It Goes Like This, The 4th, The 5th

YouTube once again proves its worth. Jeff Buckley. “Hallelujah” — live on French television in 1995.

Ladies Like Laughing

BONO: Now, did you become funny to stop being beaten up? EDDIE (IZZARD): No, I became funny to get girls, actually. BONO: It’s either one thing or the other, isn’t it? From yesterday’s Independent, edited by Bono. (via MeFi)

Editing The Selections

I got a handful of responses to my earlier call for airplane reading material. Thank you. And so, I’ve taken a few of those suggestions and used them as building material for the following list of possible books to fill at least a good portion of approximately 11 hours of flight. Blood, Class and Empire:

Rice At (The Last) Supper

Supper is just too regional a word to really do what I want it to do in that title. Actually, it would’ve been helped a whole heck of a lot if Da Vinci had simply called his famous painting something like “The Final Dinner.” Of course, the blame for that Biblical phrase might just belong

Prospects For The Season

With all of the home improvements and assorted engagements, we’ve not seen many new movies this summer. And back in June, we had an experience at a local War of the Worlds screening that diminished slightly our interest in occasional free movies. (I thought I blogged about it, but I can’t find the entry. It’s

Geek Day and Court Date

We spent the weekend getting Lost. Nikki received the DVDs for season one for her birthday, so we’ve been using every available hour since to learn more about the 48 47 46 castaways on an uncharted desert isle. Since Saturday, we’ve burned through nine or ten more episodes, leaving us with one more full DVD

4,109 Issues

This is incredibly cool. If anyone had five spare twenties to burn, I’d love* you forever. (* – By love, I mean a fraternal kind of agape love that methodists have for one another both when they are at church and when they run into each other at the mall or in the liquor store.

Chapter One (Two Versions)

In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the dreams and the little gods and the animals, how all of them came into the world. A few weeks ago, Neil

The Blair River Project

I didn’t think I’d have another Serenity-related post before the movie actually arrives, particularly since Mr Whedon is officially not going to grace Dragon*Con 2005 with his presence. However, Universal’s “underground” marketing campaign is getting very interesting. So far, three grainy, black & white video clips have virally surfaced, each one approximately a week apart.