Awww yeah - I'm at home. Sure, I'm going to be working on the next FirstWorld chapter, but mostly I'm watching the Galactica marathon on SCIFI... and chillaxing. I just took a 2-mile walk in the sunshine and my legs are tired as hell ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I'll see something that reminds me of the golden, halcyon days of youth, when I regularly took part in the noble task of screening incredibly shitty movies to a room of drunk, stoned undergraduate students ( Read more... )

Well, maybe not the best. No, who am I kidding? THE BEST. When I found this out I was so excited I had to go out and walk around so that I wouldn't just start screaming with joy right here in the office.

( Cut just in case there are huge spoilerphobes reading this, but I can't imagine that most of you are... )

Every once in a while, McSweeney's totally rocks my ass. This is one of those times - by publishing a piece of straight-faced parody of the type which I am known to do (especially in my contributions to PLAZM). But no, I got beaten to the punch with this one.

Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. denied tenure - with really, really good reasons why. (Poor ( Read more... )

I've heard a rumor that it's actually opening tomorrow (May 1st) at 8pm, to make the biggest weekend box office possible.

I did say "opening night", and I was serious about that, without quite understanding what that meant financially ( Read more... )

WOO! Four-day weekend ahoy! Ba-zing! I wish there was more relaxing on the docket, but there's some, anyway. And I slept extremely well last night, even after drinking a bottle of wine over at nesthead's. We got tipsy, ate very fresh Girl Scout Cookies, and played Talisman. It was just like the old days, except with an eight-year-old daughter who totally ( Read more... )

Cautious optimism: The X-Files film is now ready to roll.

Cameo by Nicholas Lea, please? And Steven Williams? PWEEEEEZE? Dammit... it's unlikely, if they're not going to do any myth-arc stuff. *sniff* I miss my Mr. X and my naughty catlike Krychek. But I guess that's what reruns are for.