Don't waste my time, I'm plenty good at it by myself

As a rule, I don't watch television.

Ostensibly, it's a matter of the medium. What television is limits the content. What could be a worthwhile television show is constantly interrupted by advertisements, which the show feeds into, creating false tension before each break. So, what could be an interesting and thought-provoking drama is reduced to pandering to advertisers. It's compounded further by including tangential facets of a show in order to draw a broader audience. Creating/introducing n… Continue

(Yes, I'm playing with the language features. Please learn to cope.)

Something most people who know me don't know about me is that I'm a pretty big fan of Korean cinema. Chan-Wook Park's Oldboy introduced me to a style and culture of Film that was quite unlike what I'd grown used to - and I liked it. I started to explore the scene a bit and found, for such a small country, there's quite a vibran… Continue

And you don't even have to be moving particularly slowly.

Normally, I try to keep one blog up on that recent blog posts bar on the right there - mostly out of some masturbatory urge for self-aggrandizement. I haven't been keeping up on that, and if I can't even keep up with giving myself a high-five, what else have I been up to?

Well, the answer is writing, mostly. I'm currently trying to write a screenplay that's been grabbing me by the balls and swinging me around quite a bit. That is to say… Continue

So, I go to check the mail today, and I find an envelope from Smashface productions, so I open it to find it absent of shirt *gasp*!

It appears some ne'er-do-wells have abducted the shirt and plan to do ill with it unless we submit to their demands. Here's what was in the envelope:

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Whew!

I've been away for a while. Did ya miss me? Sure, I've been making the occasional cursory snide know-it-all comments on the occasional thread, but largely, I've been absent from Mix. Mea Culpa.

Blame Game: My time has been taken up in the following ways:

I've been busy as hell at work. I do on-site tech support for 3M at 3M Center in St. Paul, MN, and, in addition to the normal and ritual breakings-of-things, the big-wigs in central IT have decided to have all the IT Operating Committee… Continue