You know, I don't often (read: ever) talk about how grateful I am for the internet. Remember 10 years ago, guys? Or a bit further, maybe 1995-ish? What did we DO? (I am assuming your interaction with technology and its developments were close to mine.) I don't know when I first used it, but I do know that in the summer of 1997 I met some ( Read more... )

Being a list:

1. On 16 October I saw Flogging Molly at Webster Hall. I attempted to write a setlist down but failed horribly as I was in the second row and nearly died from alternately being crushed to death by large, tall, boisterous, drunk men and drowning in their sweat. The band did, however, play most of their recognizable canon, like Salty ( Read more... )

Proof that Global Warming exists: The weather in the San Francisco Bay Area. What is this rain I see coming from the sky? It's very confusing. I looked at the calendar and it didn't say January...

Proof that someday, I will be able to die laughing: Josh Holloway on Walker, Texas RangerProof that I am insane: I wrote a snippet of Marvin (the ( Read more... )

So when I have a dream that starts with me sitting on a Marin Airporter bus sandwiched between Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor, then Ewan propositions me and we start making out like there's no tomorrow, and I look apologetically at Christian like, "Sorry! I'll get to you next," and then there is getting off the bus and much intrigue and mystery ( Read more... )

I just watched "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [the version with Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Kline, and Christian Bale] with my mom. I bet it was very annoying for her when I kept saying, "HEY! They cut that scene/monologue to shreds!" or when I would speak along with the characters. Just maybe ( Read more... )

It has come to my attention that some people aren't completely aware of this. The lovely and talented Ewan McGregor has been in many films. In three, he is often -- not to mention gratuitously -- naked.

Here they are, from the more tame to the pornographic.

1. Trainspotting -- Well, I think this movie can be summed up in this opening ( Read more... )