I have eight days to submit an entry for the FOX – NYTVF Comedy Script Contest. I have twenty-five days to submit an application for Viable Paradise. I’d totally forgotten about the latter for the past couple months. The former,…
Year: 2008
It’s a Girl!
Because he probably won’t have time to blog for a few days*, I’d like to announce that as of 6:57 AM PDT today, sometimes-contributor-to-this-blog “LC” is a new father: Congratulations to him and his wife! D and I can’t wait…
Live on Mars
If you watch CNN, you’ve already seen the first super badass awesome image of the Phoenix lander descending to the surface of Mars. Here’s a followup: That’s another shot, also taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of the Phoenix lander,…
Caspian : Indiana :: Peter : ?
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have two things in common. First, their title characters’ names both have the letters I-A-N in them. (But they’re pronounced differently: “EE-un” vs. “ee-AN.”)…
Netflix Living Up to Their Name
Earlier this week, the Netflix Player set-top box launched. The Roku hardware costs $100, and the minimum subscription plan that lets you stream content is $9 a month. This would have been awesome, except for three serious deficiencies: Limited selection…
Ken Levine’s Summer Movie Previews
Instead of making my own jokes about upcoming movie releases, I’ll let a professional do it this time. Ken Levine “has worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, BECKER, DHARMA & GREG, and has co-created his…
TV or Not TV?
That’s a rhetorical question. We’ve been on the road for a month now, with poor access to broadcast TV, and I started thinking about ditching cable/satellite altogether when we settle down in Portland and putting the money into faster broadband…
Our Next Civil War
I’m not saying this just to be pessimistic, but today’s big news from California–“State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry” is the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle–made me think about America’s long-standing tension between federal jurisdiction…
You Googlers and Your Damn Puzzles
It’s always got to be some kind of Treasure Hunt or something, doesn’t it? ~CKL