Red Dwarf has been resurrected by digital channel Dave for a two-part Easter weekend special, which sees the Crew finally return to Earth. Written by Red Dwarf creator Doug Nylor, Red Dwarf:Return to Earth reunited the four main characters. Red Dwarf is a BBC2 sci fi comedy show, widely broadcast in America on PBS. In …
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Choke
Choke was written by the author of Fight Club and it has that same kind of slightly alternate world view. Choke is the story of Victor Mancini and his multi-faceted life as a sex addict, an Historical Reenactor, a son, a friend, and a con artist. When we meet Victor he is at a Sex …
Choke-From The Author of Fight Club
Chokewas written by Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, and the film made from that book has that same kind of slightly alternate world view. Choke is the story of Victor Mancini and his multi-faceted life as a sex addict, an Historical Reenactor, a son, a friend, and a con artist. When we meet …
$800 Billion Bailout-Give Me a Couple of Billion
As long the Givernment is pretending they have endless supplies of money, why can’t we all play? They could give everyone in America a couple of billion dollars and still have plenty of make believe money left over. That would be a real kick start to the economy. Five or six hundred dollars is throw …
Lie To Me
Tim Roth stars a man who has spent twenty years learning about the human face and how it’s subtle and almost hidden ticks reveal the hidden emotions of the people he interviews. Lie to Me is a pretty good show, but like all who-done-its with a super smart detective, the tricks of the face reader’s …
Sleestak Bobblehead
The Land of The Lost is one of The Wife’s favorite childhood TV Shows. She is greatly upset that the no talent, highly over rated Will Ferrell is starring in the remake. I actually like Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, but then, he was a minor character in that film. So whenever I find …
Lars and The Real Girl
spoilers within. One of my favorite artist is MC Escher, who made 3D images on 2D paper. He was intrigued by how easily people were fooled into believing a 2D image was 3D. He played tricks on the viewers of his art, but we still see a 3D image on the flat page. Movies are …
The Leg Lamp
Only one thing in the world could’ve dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window. Little Orphan Annie. -Ralphie from A Christmas Story From time to time I see the Major Award from A Christmas Story and it always makes me smile. There is something about the idea of …
Running With Scissors
You know, memoir is not court stenography. Memoir is not a video on YouTube. Memoir has a narrative. Memoirs, a good memoir, is a person’s experience, their memory, and how that experience mattered to them, emotionally and psychologically. Augusten Burroughs I’ve always liked memoirs, though I didn’t always know that I was watching a memoir. …
Wuthering Heights on PBS
Wuthering Heights was one of my Mom’s favorite books, but I was never able to get into it. I recently watched the PBS Masterpiece version and still find the story a bit baffling. I will have to sit down and read Wuthering Heights one of these days. I read Moby Dick and found it to …
