Tonight the disc in the player was 1974's classic disaster movie, The Towering Inferno, starring Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, with William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and a distinguished Fred Astaire.

I'm fairly certain that the reason this got in my queue was to test my theory that it doesn't matter what decade it comes from, disaster movies are pretty ( Read more... )

I tackled the 1957 movie Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. I find my review of it pretty amusing, but I'm a pretty lousy judge of my own work.

My reason for watching this movie goes back to season 2 of Venture Bros, episode “20 Years to Midnight.” Doctor Venture is using Sally Impossible’s crush on him to gain access to the ( Read more... )

What on Earth is happening to me? Two weekends in a row and I've actually been busy? Poor Mango. Despite my best efforts to play with him a little bit each day, I feel that he's becoming a widow to something that under normal circumstances might actually resemble a social life.

This was my four day weekend and I actually spent a lot of it out of the ( Read more... )

Given that my Netflix queue is chock full of movies that came out before I was born and given that I'm just seeing many of these for the first time because of being raised on crap '80s movies, I'm going to assume that there are a number of people my age and younger who may be in a similar situation. So, as a service to the public and totally not as ( Read more... )

I just got back from the premiere of Whip It at the Magnolia with Assassination City Roller Derby (I keep spelling that out because it's easier for those people who do "Who's talking about AC Derby recently?" searches) and I'm too wound up to go to sleep. Don't worry, I'll get to the review soon enough.

( Night at the Magnolia )

Where shall I begin ( Read more... )

So Netflix has recently rolled out their Netflix Watch Instantly service for those with a paid XBox Live account. This is great news, as now I don't have to drop a hundred bucks on a Roku box. Before it was rolled out to XBox Live, I had watched like 1 movie on demand because it was a pain in the ass to have to use Internet Explorer and connect the ( Read more... )

To be honest, I didn't do a whole hell of a lot. It did start out pretty damn good right out of the gate. Wednesday morning involved breakfast and coffee at Cafe Brazil with tornadoali  just before she had to go to work and just after I'd ended my shift. It was a very fun kind of "I had it, you got it" turnover.

Thursday was all kinds of awesomesauce because ( Read more... )

It's 5:30 and I'm starting to get rather sleepy, so I'll keep this short, I hope ( Read more... )

A few things I learned upon making my own hummus today ( Read more... )