August 2009
70 posts
July 2009
58 posts
I kind of want to rename my AirPort network “Stop Naming Your AirPort Network After Your Nonexistent Production Company” but that would be passive-transmissive.
There are weekends where I don’t so much “sleep” and “get up” as take lots of showers and change my clothes several times.
Some people just have an overly intent gaze. It’s not necessarily clear if they’re even watching you per se, but in a reptilian way you’re on their radar. Me, I like to cultivate a dopey expression.
Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft... →
A leaked PowerPoint posted at Gizmodo provides a glimpse of what Microsoft’s retail shops may look like, noting that you’ll even be able to pay to celebrate your birthday there. Some of the stores that were profiled for ideas were Nike, Nokia, Sony, Apple, and AT&T. Microsoft’s take on the Genius Bar is the Answers Bar (aka Guru Bar, Windows Bar).”
Sad 2.0 face.
Gwyneth Paltrow Debones a Chicken →
“I think about cooking all the time,” the 36-year-old actress admits. “It’s what I lie in bed thinking about at night, which is maybe a problem!”
Translation: Sometimes she poops in her sleep.
James Cameron, I’m ready to ride you like a magnificent space pegasus all the way to the farthest reaches of the Gamma Quadrant, even to a planet that draws its unfortunate name from Bulfinch’s Mythology.
Avatar, please don’t suck, okay? (My concern is that he dedicates the film to “his fourteen-year-old self.” When grown men get to realize the expensive fantasies of...
Caveat browser
You know how eBay’s become rife with scammers who’d like nothing more than to sell you an Xbox filled with rocks and baby teeth? I’m beginning to view the myriad instant-reaction/commentary videos that clog YouTube’s search results whenever I go looking for a leaked movie trailer in the same light.
Amazon Buys Internet Shoe Retailer Zappos →
I should just sign over my first [aborted] to Amazon now.
Toujours BerkSys
If somebody made an iPhone app that was simply all the After Dark screensaver modules circa 1994, 8-bit and resplendent, I would pay ten fucking bucks for that. Somebody please make that.
I awoke from a nap and this was on television
Unsurprisingly the amateur porn subplot is the only convincingly mounted aspect of the 2006 Paris Hilton hit-and-run Bottoms Up.
In his supporting role as the flaming, avuncular Earl Peadman, David Keith straddles the production with a relentless grandeur that suggests he thought this horse was going to be his Wrestler at the Razzies that year.
This is the kind of movie where one character...
Raccoon and Beagle and Madame Playtime
R: This is supposed to be cute but it’s actually kind of terrifying. Raccoons are scary. The only way it would be scarier would be if it were Madame kissing the beagle instead of the raccoon.
D: Raza, I’m asking you nicely for the last time to never EVER bring up Madame again. She’s an anthropomorphic nightmare that I can’t get out of my head.
More like a cappellaren’t.
WatchSimple gift.
My humble bit of noodling with aM laboratory’s minimalist and gorgeous ToneMatrix, a “simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16-step sequencer,” where “each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map.”
More information here.
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I'm not being sarcastic (seriously)
Is it weird that I kind of want Unfollow Friday to nail me—really put me in my place? Sort of like how Lara Flynn Boyle’s character in Happiness got aroused whenever Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character would call her anonymously and say wildly pornographic, degrading things to her over the phone.
Of course, just like in the movie, U.F. and I would eventually decide to meet...
I dreamed we electrified their civilization, ending a hundred thousand years of fire-worship. Their mythology photodegraded to nothing under the glare of our flashbulbs, our tungsten filaments licking at their exposed shadows. We offered them Catherine Zeta-Jones. No hard feelings.
A carriage return is not a punchline.
Jon Gosselin flaunts new girlfriend in France →
Jon Gosselin very publicly took his new girlfriend Hailey Glassman to France on Saturday where Jon was invited to meet with Christian Audigier about working for the Ed Hardy line….
There is almost more douche in that sentence than I can reasonably accommodate getting sprayed in the face with.
Sometimes I like to think Brad and Angie can’t get off unless there’s an old VHS dub of Jennifer Aniston’s early-Nineties sketch-com The Edge playing noisily on the bedroom Bravia.
Michael Jackson: the Post-Racial King of Pop. →
For a moment I thought it said “post-nasal.”
LucasArts classics coming to iPhone? →
Yes yes yes please yes yes yes.
Rumer Willis To Play Lesbian On '90210' →
Hall says the 20-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore will guest-star in one episode as “a punky, cute lesbian who isn’t afraid to speak her mind.” Willis’ character, named Gia, will work at the school paper.
I’d have an easier time buying her as an alien princess named Hoarf from the Jackson Hole Nebula, in whose own face her galactically good-looking...
Chinese Discount Airline To Sell Standing Room... →
Spring Airlines, a discount Chinese carrier, plans to ask the government for permission to sell standing room tickets. The plan will likely win approval, since Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang was recently quoted as saying: “for a lower price, passengers should be able to get on a plane like catching a bus, with no seat, no luggage consignment, no food, no water, but very...
Some questions are met with silence because the language to answer them hasn’t been invented yet.
Michael Bay on Transformers, Megan Fox and More →
It’s interesting that you want to focus on acting. Megan Fox, one of the leads in “Transformers” has criticized your films for being special-effects-driven and not offering so many acting opportunities. Do you agree?
Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. You roll your eyes when you see statements...