Made a jaunt up to Target yesterday: picked up Cloud Atlas on DVD (thus no more stuttery, conking-out-at-random streaming vids). Also I hung out at the in-store Starbucks and managed to get a huge chunk of the Torchwood/Arrow crossover done. I think it's finished now, and I'm saving the original ending for a possible sequel, but I'm not touching ( Read more... )

Found when I was doing research for an idea for an unusual Merovingian faction in the MxO (I'm giving it one last shot):

Make Your Own Dan Brown Novel The more times you refresh the page, the funnier it gets! Case in point ( Read more... )

And the Damn Movie. And the Darn Video Game (which I'll be posting a few interesting revelations about in a moment...). Ironically, these thoughts come the day after the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, whom I imagine must be tearing out her long red hair over the sheer number of gulls who think she and Christ were married ( Read more... )

It's been insanely busy here: with everyone having cook-outs/barbeques, work has been utter chaos; I think I did something to my shoulder, because right at the end of my shift Friday, I got this stabbing pain under my right shoulderblade. It seems okay now, but I'm leery of it. Plus, I seem to have a bit of ringing in the ears from having small ( Read more... )

Well, the one-woman silent protest/rosary vigil went without a hitch, aside from the door to the cinema not being unlocked and the manager who opened the door for me asking if I had a pre-ordered ticket. I told him "No, I'm just waiting." and internally added, Waiting for the damn movie to come out on DVD, or for it to turn up at the dollar theater ( Read more... )

Had a hellish moment with the MxO software: for some wierd reason, I couldn't get the desktop shortcut to connect to the launcher. This after I'd tried tweaking the software after I couldn't get my guns to free-fire. At least someone else had the same gun glitch later in the same night, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Anyway... it was like the ( Read more... )

The Damned Movie premiered last night and it seems Ron Howard caught the fanbrat behavior bug from Dan Brown: he's using the ol' "DUN LIK DUN REED!!!11111" argument to those who are offended by it. Well, I don't intend to see it in the theatre, unless it's at the dollar theatre and I go see it with Mark, so the both of us can snark at it. I might ( Read more... )

There was a copy of the Damned Book. On. The. Shelf. I regularly trawl the adult fiction section and not *ONCE* until now have I seen a copy of the Damn Book actually, physically On. The. Shelf. You usually had to put in a request for it if you wanted to take it out, or there was that one time that it was on the "Library Staff Picks" shelf, which ( Read more... )

This came in on the email newsletter from Karl Keating, the layman who started Catholic Answers, one of the most active Catholic apologetics organizations/ministries out there:

Novelist Umberto Eco was raised a Catholic and abandoned the faith a long time ago, but he has not abandoned common sense ( Read more... )

There's a discussion about the Damned Book on catholics and someone had this to say about it:

"Some people have brought up the point that "it's only fiction." This is one of the best counter arguments to that I have ever seen. It was taken from a comment someone made on Amy Welborn's blog.

"Imagine someone writes a fictional book in which your mother is ( Read more... )