Time travel is always tricky, as everyone on Lost now knows. But if it’s possible, we’re going to figure it out by using science and technology like Daniel Faraday, not with mystical bullshit like, well, every other uncurious motherfucker on…
Month: February 2009
TV Unplugged
Having watched the Academy Awards on Sunday over the air–for free, with a $15 UHF antenna–and having read Saturday’s Consumerist post about How To Cancel Cable Without Losing Your Favorite Shows, I felt it was a good time to review…
DIY Oscar Party Kit
Every year, D and I host an Academy Awards viewing party at our home, and we amassed a bit of a following in the bay area over the last decade. Now that we’ve moved away, our friends Ken & Jerry…
Friday Flash Fiction: “What You Should Know About Water Rites”
Fun fact: The title of this week’s story is the same length as 1.4% of the story itself. Also, the first draft was about three times longer and included a lot of rambling about politics and homelessness. So much for…
My new favorite web site: MoviePosterDB.com
I found this site in the process of updating my trivia slides for this year’s Oscar Party, and am now wasting a whole lot of time browsing through the designs for different countries. It’s fun to see what kind of…
Happy Presidents Day
Check out the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and marvel at how far we’ve come since then. ~CKL
GC Summit 2009 Debriefing
Thursday night’s gathering was a rousing success, thanks in large part to the Shinteki folks, who got us a meeting room and free parking at the San Francisco Zoo. See for yourself: http://picasaweb.google.com/sparckl/GCSummit2009 Thanks also to Larry Hosken, who (via…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Art Attack”
D read this week’s story and remarked that it has the same type of ending as “Antique”—i.e., one character making a flip remark. I’m also quite aware that it’s yet another alien-artifact mystery (like “The Forty” and “Finale”) and, though…
On the Road Again
We’re heading out on another brief road trip, this time down to San Francisco for the Game Control (GC) Summit on Thursday and the Cinematic Titanic live show on Saturday. On our way, we’ll stop in Redding for a look…