February 2012
11 posts
1 tag
Sit On It
via asfurniture.com This is now in our house and it is so comfortable. It’s also much bigger than we imagined. We planned to rearrange our living room anyway, but really need to now.
Hey @evanier, look what I found in Publix in...
via Tweetbot for iPhone
Scotch & Rocks
In spite of how small they were, the Del Carbon...
Taken at Del Taco
Out on a limb
Delicious Beer Cheese Soup @ the 57th Fighter...
Taken at 57th Fighter Group
Delicious Beer Cheese Soup @ the 57th Fighter...
Taken at 57th Fighter Group
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More Luck
Either this ladybug has been living in our bedroom for several months with no discernible source of food or new ones keep getting in.
In Defense Of George Lucas
We Need To Talk About George I’ve started writing this a couple of times, but the former debater in my head keeps trying to counter every possible argument against what I’m saying before I’ve even gotten my point out. I’ve kicked him out and barred the door so I can finally write this damn post. If anyone wants to debate my points, I’ll let him back in. What I’ve got to say, I’ve been saying...
In Defense Of George Lucas
We Need To Talk About George I’ve started writing this a couple of times, but the former debater in my head keeps trying to counter every possible argument against what I’m saying before I’ve even gotten my point out. I’ve kicked him out and barred the door so I can finally write this damn post. If anyone wants to debate my points, I’ll let him back in. What I’ve got to say, I’ve been saying...
Just Breathe
p42.mov Watch on Posterous
January 2012
13 posts
puppy dog eyes
in a fog
a bit of beer
Taken at Provinos
Sleeping through the storm
f*ck yes
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Light at the End of the Day
And In The End
Screenplay: The Dark Knight Confession time. I have a horrible memory for the endings of stories. Take Lawrence of Arabia for example. I have seen it many times, it’s one of my all time favorite movies, but I cannot remember how it ends. So, with The Dark Knight Rises coming soon and details trickling out about it I wanted to revisit The Dark Knight as I could not recall specifically how...
Not A Resolution
I’m not calling it a resolution, but starting at the beginning of this year I am making a concerted effort to really get my screenwriting going. I had made a good go at it a few months back, but the time of day I set aside for writing became the time when we would change my wife’s bandages. I never found a different time of day and it all just trailed off. So, I’m beginning by...
For Luck
Ever since my wife’s first surgery (of three, collect them all), we have seen so many ladybugs. In our house, on our car, in our car, and so on. She says it’s a sign of good luck and I’m going with that idea. (I spotted this one while walking the dog this morning.)
Horror Movie Recommendations?
I’ve never really been a devotee of horror movies, but lately have been hungry for any good ones I can find. As I know some of you do have a passion for the genre, I’d like to solicit any recommendations you may have. I’m not a big fan of gore or, more specifically, the “torture porn” subgenre, but if it’s a well made or important film I can probably stomach...
back to business
Got back to the day job today. My wife had surgery a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been staying home to help her recuperate. I hoping to get back to some sort of regular schedule soon so I can start writing too. For now though, just taking it one day at a time.
My Heart Belongs to You
Wonderful music video for a great song by an amazing friend:
December 2011
13 posts
Our hospital Christmas tree
Santa has a surprise for you in his sack
Very early birthday gift from my wonderful wife
olive oil secrets
Extra-virgin olive oil is a ubiquitous ingredient in Italian recipes, religious rituals and beauty products. But many of the bottles labeled “extra-virgin olive oil” on supermarket shelves have been adulterated and shouldn’t be classified as extra-virgin, says New Yorker contributor Tom Mueller. via npr.org Olive oil is one of the real staples of our cooking, so very...
my batman
Back in the early summer of 1989 I happened upon my first Batman comic, issue #602 of Detective Comics, in a small grocery store in Hutchinson, Kansas. As a result my Batman became and will always be the Grant/Breyfogle Batman. The dynamism of the artwork and the depth of the writing solidified the idea of Batman into a living breathing character. So reading that Norm Breyfogle will be returning...
sleep hack
Polyphasic Sleep Cycles Trick Your Body into Needing Less Sleep http://lifehacker.com/5866905/polyphasic-sleep-cycles-trick-your-body-into-needing-less-sleepI tried something similar to this a few years back. I’d come gone from work and go straight to bed for a few hours, wake up, then back to sleep. —- Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPhone app. Available for free in the App...
The horror!
The Five Best Things Dr Nemesis Says In X-Club #1...
Anyway, the book takes a bunch of X-Men scientists and gets them to do cool things. But none is quite as cool as Dr Nemesis. So I thought we should celebrate the character under Si Spurrier’s care, and highlight the five best things he said in the comic in question. via bleedingcool.com Haven’t been interested enough in any X-Men comics to read more than an issue or two in years (too...
Pulp Fiction In Chronological Order
via bleedingcool.com Haven’t watched this yet, but seems to be an interesting exercise.
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Note to self: Dinner at a new Olive Garden the day after they open is a bad idea (especially with a crazy loud teenager at the next table)
Mid-evening Nap
Abuse Your Noodle
Heard an interesting report on NPR this morning about how instant ramen cups lead to a lot of horrible burns by tipping over easily, especially with children. The part I really wanted to note down for future writing reference was the reason ramen burns are so much worse than other soup or hot liquid burns. Apparently the noodles, which hold in the heat, stick to the skin, intensifying the burn....
Hello Future World
Back when I was single, maintaining a self hosted blog as my digital hub was easy. Now I have a life though and less time to fiddle with updates and plugins. So a new digital hub, hosted on posterous.com with bits being piped to anywhere I want and no worrying about the back end. If you want to see it directly, it’s at cloudmachine.us. As with the old setup though, anything I post should...
July 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
1 tag
go read it
I haven’t seen Limitless yet and so haven’t read this myself, but my friend Damien wrote up his thoughts on that film, Why Limitless Is About Cyborgs And Magic. If you have seen the film you should go now and read what is surely a much more brilliant review/analysis than I could provide.
declarative!
I’m as anti-Westboro Baptist as the next person (though not anti-their-right-to-be-a**holes) and have nothing against the city of Topeka, but there’s something I love about the “Topeka: City Of Bastards!” sign in this photo. Maybe it’s the typography. (Photo from sara with camera, via boingboing)
March 2011
6 posts
WatchTeegan and Rosie’s Pinky
one of the best
I became a huge fan of The Dick Van Dyke Show a few years back and so always love to see that appreciation reflected elsewhere online, like in this article from The Onion A.V. Club (via Mark Evanier, who, without knowing it, is largely responsible for getting me to watch the show in the first place).
links for the wife
National Geographic has a new iPad app describing the story behind 50 of their best photos (via gizmodo).
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Brief instructions (and a lnk to more directions) on creating actions in Photoshop.
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New Annie Leibovitz Disney photos.
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A cheap Holga lens for your expensive digital camera (which may allow you to use that fisheye lens with it) (via boing boing).
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And...
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Harpo Marx v. Milton Berle, 1959 →
As a Marx Brothers fan from way back (my primary online handle “wacko” is actually derived from the Marx Brothers, not from Animaniacs), I loved seeing this video pop-up online.
December 2010
6 posts
WatchDaily Video 5: Driven
WatchDaily Video 4: Bowie
WatchDaily Video 4: Bowie