This is a list of archived entries published in August 2007.
Here’s an interesting tidbit. Last night I watched The Call of Cthulhu, a short independent film by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. The concept was to adapt Lovecraft’s famous short story in the style of the era in which it was written–that is, a 1920s silent movie.
I actually requested Netflix add the title to their [...]
Why didn’t J. Edgar Hoover appear and destroy them?
Discuss.
Watched a few movies over the weekend. I don’t really feel like doing individual reviews of any of them, so here are my thoughts based on a five-star rating system:
Masters of Horror: Stuart Gordon’s Dreams in the Witch House
Director Stuart Gordon is the only commercial filmmaker to have made a concerted effort to bring H.P. [...]
As I think I’ve made abundantly clear on this site, I collect action figures. I started doing so as a wee tyke, beginning with a little plastic totem of Mighty Mouse, then on into He-Man, Star Wars and the original Transformers and finally Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. After TMNT, I had a brief period where [...]
Yesterday I blasted through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to finally put an end to the constant shushing I’ve had to do to people who’ve already finished it. (Ed has already written on the phenomenon of HP speed-reading, and I posted my thoughts over there.)
I read the first three Harry Potter books back in [...]
We’re not allowed to install programs on our computers at work (for security reasons), so I’ve had to make do without the official Google-created Gmail Notifier during the day.
But browser plugins seem to work, and I just came across this cool extension for Firefox that keeps track of the new messages in your inbox.
In my question to own any and all comic appearances of Hellboy, I finally picked up a copy of Savage Dragon/Hellboy, which collects two issues of Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon comic featuring a guest appearance by the wielder of the Right Hand of Doom.
Quick history lesson: In 1992, when the post-Batman comic book boom was [...]
Yes, it finally happened. Last Saturday at noon, I asked for DG’s hand in marriage. Her response: “Okay–but just this once.”
We were camping in Greenfield, NH, in what will now become famous in JFCC-DG lore as “Campsite 149″ (though I have little doubt I will someday misremember it as “Campsite 49,” owing to Pynchon’s 49th [...]
I think we can safely say, without any trace of hyperbole, that ringback tones are the worst thing in the history of mankind.
My sister has been tormenting me with “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” while another person I called made me sit through “Summer Love” for fifteen seconds before I got his voice mail. Yes, suicide [...]
Penny-Arcade comments on an issue near and dear to my heart (for those who don’t know, I work in a library–though I don’t have an MLS, so I’m not a librarian per se. I’m a library assistant).
My personal suggestion: librarylock (cf. warlock for male witch).