Author Archives: DJ
My Choices For This Year’s SAG Awards
Just finished voting in the SAG Awards. Nominated films (and, to a lesser degree, television shows) were really all over the map this year. At least one of the movies was just bad, bad, bad. Another was a very ugly … Continue reading
Boondoggle Maneuver
Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol — yeah, it’s a weird name for a sequel. Besides having too many colons, it looks like somebody just opened up a thesaurus and randomly coupled some unrelated words together.Can you imagine? Wow, that would be … Continue reading
One Stake, Well Done
Just caught the movie Stake Land — a zombie-inspired movie that’s not about zombies, but vampires. However, it’s different than any zombie OR vampire movie I’ve seen. Definitely has an “indie” feel to it. Would recommend it to fans of … Continue reading
A Holiday Tradition Like You’ve Never Heard It…
From @ebertchicago on Twitter: You’ve seen the movie. Here is Jean Shepard himself reading his “A Christmas Story.” http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/jean-shepherd-reads-his-original-a-christmas-story
Kerflooey
Back online after my DSL router decided to go kerflooey yesterday — and now everything is back to normal again today, which is just as perplexing. Realized how hooked in many of us are to the Internet, and how our … Continue reading
Cold is relative
HOW I CAN TELL IT’S WINTER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Have to turn on space heater in the evening to take the edge off; can no longer sleep with windows open all night. HOW I USED TO BE ABLE TO TELL … Continue reading
Zombie Apocalypse Hits Wisconsin!
A little over two years ago, just before Halloween, a buddy of mine (@DacBeerpig) began a Twitter experiment. It was an idea loosely inspired by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio play, except this time involving not aliens, but … Continue reading
Everybody Stumbles…
…it’s human to get distracted, and stumble, as we travel on our path. Or, sometimes we see something off to the side that looks enticing, and we wander away from the path for a while. So it’s not about whether … Continue reading
The “True Blood” Drinking Game
Dammit, Sookie! For some reason, this show seems tailor-made for a drinking game. Perhaps because both the show and drinking games carry equal amounts of fun and danger.
“It Just Fell Into My Lap”
Creating Serendipity Getting what you want from life… It doesn’t involve thinking harder… or working harder… or knowing all the right people. In fact, it’s far simpler than we were all brought up to believe.