Last week, I stumbled across this link for Vader Sessions. Some evil genius out there changed Darth Vader’s lines from Star Wars episode IV to other lines that James Earl Jones spoke in other movies. Just watched it for the seventh time. Still laughed out loud throughout.
Sweet Monkey Pie has gotten a little sports-heavy, but this being March — and me being a huge basketball fan — it’s a hard habit to break. And since the wife and kid were visiting family this weekend, I had the honor and privilege to watch approximately 320 hours of basketball since Thursday afternoon. Rather than rehash the NCAA tourney, let’s talk about something non-basketball-related: those new-ish DIRECTV ads.
My son turns 5 on Tuesday. As bizarre as that seems (has it really been a half-decade since he showed up kicking and screaming and covered in goo?) the biggest change I’ve noticed lately is his TV viewing habits. Although he’s growing incrementally, my little boy’s taste in TV has grown up in a matter of weeks. Read more…
A few weeks back, I was on a business trip, and I woke up in the hotel at around 7 a.m. Our first meeting wasn’t until 10 a.m, so I’d normally use that time to catch up on email and other work inanities. On that morning, though, I couldn’t get the wireless web connection to work. I tried everything I knew, but nada… I was off the grid.
Like millions of other parents around the US, this weekend I trundled off with my kid to see the new Pixar/Disney movie, Cars. About 15 minutes into it, I started to think, I’ve seen this before. Read more…
A few weeks back, I wrote an item about Samuel “Motherf*cking” Jackson’s upcoming movie Snakes on a Plane. The entry — my most-read attempt with the exception of the Thea Andrews “high beams” saga — noted that the movie looks to be a delightful piece of crap, but it is definitely not worthy of a Jackson’s talents.
For the last 16 years, I’ve worn contacts on and off to compensate for my mild myopia. Usually, I have no problem with the little buggers, but for the past few years, the pollen season in North Carolina has gotten the best of me. In April, my eyes often feel like two sandpaper orbs in an acid bath. In other words, not comfortable. Read more…
There’s a lot going on in the world right now. The war in Iraq rages on. Jack Abramoff got nearly six years in prison for showing that the phrase “crooked lobbyist” isn’t a contradiction in terms. And President Bush has replaced Andy Card as his chief of staff with yet another middle-aged white man whose primary job qualification is a long and distinguished track record of blindly supporting W. (man, I did NOT see that coming). Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, I saw Walk the Line, the biopic about Johnny Cash. Throughout the movie, I was comparing it to Ray, another musical biopic from last year. What’s been rattling around in my head is one simple question: Which did I like more? Read more…
