All I do is watch movies and listen to records and read stuff. This is my legacy: sometimes I notice mistakes. Here is where I will mark pop-cultural items in need of correction.

POP CULTURE CORRECTION #1 (MUSIC, 1A: FILE UNDER GBC0001)In the Geto Boys' "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me", Scarface talks himself out of a contemplation of suicide by ( Read more... )

It’s Violence Filter Friday ( Read more... )

I ( Read more... )

I know this. But still: WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH ALL THE RAIN IN SOUTH TEXAS ( Read more... )

You know, every time I think that Bush and Cheney can't get any more flagrant in their contempt for the political process, their arrogance and abuse of power, their utter disdain for the rule of law and the concept of democracy in general, they up the ante on me. They've got a limitless supply of shameless audacity, and any time the law, the will ( Read more... )

EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK RANKED IN ANNOYANCE LEVEL AS COMPARED TO OPPONENTS FACED IN "PUNCH-OUT", "SUPER PUNCH-OUT", AND "MIKE TYSON'S PUNCH-OUT"

my digital camera running out of batteries and I can't find my rechargeable batteries: Glass Joe

Stephanie getting voted off American Idol: Don Flamenco

the continuing Gilliganification of Locke on ( Read more... )

- Lileks today is so all-over-the-map cranky I'm not even gonna touch him. You guys go ahead, get your hands dirty, I have work to do ( Read more... )

- Mini-update to "Tasteful San Antonio": in the window of one of the transient hotels near my office, there is posted a confusing handwritten notice which reads 'YOU WILL BE CRIMINALLY TRESPASSED FOR LOITERING IN THE LOBBY OF THIS BUILDING'.

- I picked up a used copy of Mercenaries for PS2 last week. It looks like it should be fun and all, but I ( Read more... )

Well, I'm home now. Not getting paid. Because they sent us all home at 2PM, due to the horrific 31-degrees-and-slightly-wet weather conditions. And we may not work tomorrow! Because of this, as the paper put it, "ARCTIC BLAST" of deadly climatological conditions that has apparently thrown all of south Texas into a tizzy. All of downtown is ( Read more... )

I hate to start out the new year apologizing, because I seem to do nothing but apologize sometimes. I did a particular lot of it last year, to some people who deserve a lot more than that. I guess one way to not apologize so much would be to stop fucking up all the time, but what are the odds of my doing that? Anyway, I'm sorry to editrix26 & kp3000, never_fear and zulkey. I ( Read more... )