Movies —
No one is allowed to stop talking about Brokeback Mountain until the Oscars. Which is fine by me, but only because this reading should score me some points in the House of Applied Queer Theory:
The idealization of the Lady (or queer love/assfucking) is a way of occluding the Other. In courtly love, the traumatic Other […]
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - No title has ever been more cunningly concieved, more able to bypass all my many miserlinesses and leap into my ownership before I can blink. And quite right, too! Pirates! And scientists!
The book itself, once you get beyond the excitement of the mere fact of its existence, […]
Unlike certain other Monday Reviews we could mention, this one respects the traditional meaning of Monday, lingering grumpiness included.
Mr. Coffee 12-cup drip coffeemaker: I can’t find the exact model number, unfortunately, because I very much need to express my dismay with the office machine in a way that Google will hear and understand. It is:
Slow
Drippy, […]
So here’s what I’ve seen in the past couple weeks, in no particular order:
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - So I think there was some kind of plot, because why else would they have stuck all those people in front of the CGI robots? Quite a mistake - the robots, and the associated […]
How is it that feather blankets are always so much cozier than even the snuggliest synthetic fills? I think it might have something to do with the absurd fluffiness and/or little scrunchy noises - even the expensive synthetics are only somewhat fluffy, and they don’t make the same scrunchy noises - but can’t quite pin […]
Small consolations in the wake of Guvenah-Elect Ahnold:
Trumping all the “my governor can beat up your governor” cards from Minnesota.
The occasionally professional accordion player came in second-to-last.
Both bullshit ballot initiatives were killed quite dead.
Governor-elect Schwarzenegger has appeared in about 40 real movies, and many more schlocky TV specials and “The Making Of” documentaries. Combine that […]
I don’t know if I wanted to see this movie or not, but I was obligated to go see it anyway, so without consideration of my own desires I hopped in the car. The blog police would levy a big fat fine if I didn’t write a review.
Before I put in a spoiler barrier, I’ll […]
Phone books in L.A. follow some confused backwater eddy of economics. A new one appears on my doorstep every other month or so, printed by a different company in a different format for a different portion of the Pasadena/Foothills/Greater Metro area. They make a nice ergonomic adjustment for my monitor, but beyond that I never […]
There’s an entire womens volleyball team in my kitchen. They’re making lasagne. I almost feel like I’m living in the plot part of a porno, and any minute now one or two of them will ask to “use the shower,” but they’re all wearing proper clothes.
Contrariwise, Cooking with Porn Stars is exactly as horribly ridiculous […]
Saw one of the pirated versions of Attack of the Clones last night; good god was it ever awful. Maybe not Highlander III awful, maybe not even Phantom Menace awful, but certainly Planet of the Apes awful. Awful enough that going to see the special effects in a theater Friday night - for free - […]