I woke this morning thinking about a well known story. It involves someone named Bela, someone named Edward, clumsiness and vampires.

That's right, I'm talking about Plan 9 From Outer Space, written and directed by Edward Wood Jr, with Bela Legosi playing Ghoul Man, in which aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires. It's a so bad it's ( Read more... )

Well, I'm 100000 years old today. Fortunately, that's just in binary.

If you see only one movie this year, see Up.

If you only see two movies this year, see Up, then see Up again.

Oh, and get Transformers on DVD. That way. you can pause and rewind and try to decypher what's going on in the gratuitus pan shots and nameless and forgettable bots.

But only after watching Up.

John Hodgman speaking at the Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner, asks the questions that need asking: Is President Obama one of us? Is he a nerd?

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This morning I had an odd dream, in which I was talking to someone of a religious bent, and I was commenting about how Jesus "stopped by and visited this eyelash here." The theist humored me, in my comment about how small and ordinary the earth is, in the grand scheme of things. I woke up shortly thereafter, and today I was thinking about if my ( Read more... )

Perhaps you could tell me what's wrong with this screenshot I grabbed?
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Woz to appear on Dancing With the Stars

I may have to find a way to get a TV signal. Because, like, holy shit. Woz.

Chicken.

As a citizen of the state of California, I am legally required to comment on Prop 8. Yes, legally. It's in the law books to comment about it. It's right next to the part about having to make some sort of reference to the current governor and the Terminator movies ( Read more... )

Odd thoughts. I was thinking about the door to door preachers I mentioned a long while ago, and how they had a lot of wrong assumptions, in terms of science facts. Which was a shame that knowledge blew a lot of holes in their foundations ( Read more... )