mushin no shin

Just another brain dump…

Dude, how did I make it some 13 years without having seen or heard of Mr. Show??? Funny funny stuff. I can see why Miss Lesley is so enamored with David Cross.
Speaking of things I’ve recently Netflixed (if that’s not a verb yet, it should be), The Lives of Others was phenomenal. [...]

Back when I was just a smart teenage nerd with a budding anti-authoritarian streak, The Manhattan Project, a film a about a teenager who builds an atomic bomb, was a natural and instant favorite. Hell, I eventually even sampled the damn thing:
Chaos Dreary
But of course, whatever real merits the movie may have had, I was [...]

I of course completely agree with Aunt B that anyone who thinks Bush is Batman is a moron of well, comic book proportions. A supermoron, if you will.
But beyond that, it occurs to me, isn’t Batman partly a tale about a hopelessly ineffective government ripe with corruption and crony-ism, and particularly plagued by a broken [...]

I don’t really have much to add on the new Ted Stevens mess, but Rex pointed us to this Gawker post which introduced us to:

which is just awesome in its own right. Of course I think it’s the lolcats that make it ring true. Well, that and His Noodly Appendage, of course.

Apparently it was August 20, 1991 when I drove up to Orlando for the first lollapalooza, which I bring up to tell again about the pre-show activities, when I ate some acid with a random hardcore freak I met in line — who actually said his name was Gonzo — who gave me a copy [...]

Success! I sampled the first bottle of my homebrew tonight, and it turned out quite tasty. Well, the shitty thing is that it’s a standard issue golden pilsner-style lager, since that’s the mix that came with the kit — will have to brew a good stout or something for the next batch. At which point [...]

Except of course “Darkness = 100%” should have been worked in there somewhere…

Sometimes I think it’s important to take a step back and be grateful for the talents we have which we usually take for granted.
For example, I have the ability to watch a DVD, without subsequently dragging a cheese grater across it when I’m done. I’ve never thought much about it, but judging by the condition [...]

So… whoa. I took Jim Ridley’s advice and added I Know Who Killed Me to my netflix queue some time back. Well, here’s a pretty good summary review. But I think I can condense my review to one word:
Yikes.
Man, I don’t know if I can trust Mr. Ridley any more after this! Ha, I tease, [...]

I’ve been watching a Civil War flick. I may have more to say about that later, but for now — they just showed a scene where the Confederates held a barn dance, and I just wanted to remark on how it amuses me that the music they played, an ancestor of bluegrass, and similar to [...]