I swear, it has become almost PAINFUL now whenever a news anchor or reporter on location looks into the camera and says:

...in a flash

...when tragedy struck

...clear as a bell

...with guns blazing

...in a wink

...in harm's way

...the long arm of the law

*SIGH* *depressed*Yes, yes, I know that the news is all about being as short and ( Read more... )

For the love of Greg Brady. Someone please send a memo to HollywoodLand and instruct them to STOP spoiling perfectly good death scenes with the old "close the dead eyes with a gentle pass of the hand" parlor trick. That doesn't work. At all.  Gentle, firm, hard, whatever.

I tried it and it doesn't work!  Gah.

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Massive ScamFail.  Oh, let me count the ways.

1.  apostrophe genocide (we's all got's familie's, yeah)
2.  comma-kaze'ing (intentional and repeated comma suicide)
3.  Bank of Africa (oh, that did it right there)
4.  paragraphFail
5.  punctuationFail
6.  spacingFail
7.  grammarFail
8.  SEVEN MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND USA DOLLARS ($7.7MILLION US DOLLARS ( Read more... )

You must not have gotten the memo.  Don't make me hate a protagonist!

Big sisters not only strive to comfort their little brothers when grief strikes, they protect them as well.  Teenaged Tammy (28 Weeks Later) sneaking outside of a safe zone (safe from the horrible rage virus and possible rage-infected zombies) with young Andy just to retrieve a ( Read more... )

The Sci-Fi Channel. Just when I thought they couldn't sink any lower ( Read more... )

Sorry for not posting for a few days, but I've been on a writing jag (i.e. fugue state). Now, on with the show ( Read more... )

Nice try, but no cee-gar.

Awesome show last night, as always. At least, up until you decided to slip your own personal political view out of some demon's mouth. LOL! To paraphrase: "Cheney's own personal parking space is already sitting there waiting for him [in hell]." I'm sure it is, O Scriptwriter. But c'mon. You expect me to believe that ( Read more... )