Archive for April, 2008

Tell Laura I Loathe Her

April 30th, 2008

Perhaps it was the mood I was in this morning, but Mark Morford’s column on our docile, soulless mannequin of a First Lady made me laugh out loud several times.
By the way, if Hilary gets elected will Bill be referred to as the First Man? I always wondered that.

WDW Day Two: Animal Kingdom

April 29th, 2008

Thursday, April 17th 2008 was the day me and my parents explored Disney’s Animal Kindgom. Although we got off to a late start due to a mysteriously un-set alarm, it ended up being very eventful full day and we wound up doing everything we set out to do. After a filling breakfast at the downtown […]

Weekly Mishmash: April 20-26

April 27th, 2008

Chalte Chalte (1976). Sometimes I like to check out old Bollywood musicals. This particular one is no classic — with clumsy direction and some really bad, overwrought performances — but it’s almost worth watching for the parade of garish ’70s fabric patterns on display. The plot involves a woman stalking a guy and his fiancée, […]

WDW Day One 1/2: Epcot World Showcase

April 25th, 2008

Wednesday I outlined our day at Future World in Walt Disney World’s Epcot. Today I look at our afternoon/evening at the other side of Epcot, World Showcase. This was an inspiring and fun-packed segment of the trip and in a way it made up for the small disappointments in Future World. The W.S. pavilions, each […]

WDW Day One: Epcot Future World

April 23rd, 2008

A week ago today, we (my parents and I) took a day-long holiday Walt Disney World’s Epcot. You gotta understand that this is something I’ve wanted to see ever since it opened in October 1982 — but, firmly rooted in Arizona, we always went to Disneyland next door in California for our Disney getaways. As […]

Whoa, Ho, Ho It’s Magic

April 21st, 2008

I limped back from my Disney World trip last Saturday with jet lag, achy feet, sniffly nose and a dry throat. At this point it’s safe to say that I’m all Disneyed out for awhile. It was a fun and frenetic three days — I will have a more detailed report on each day later. […]

Out April 15-19

April 14th, 2008


Weekly Mishmash: April 6-12

April 13th, 2008

Bush’s War (Frontline, PBS). We finally finished watching this five-hour extravaganza last Sunday. Favorite moment: when a commentator notes Condi Rice’s “overjoyed” reaction to the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad, the producers show a photo of Ms. Rice in a characteristic sour-faced look.
Junebug (2005). I have so many movies on Netflix that they’re […]

Company Picnic

April 11th, 2008

While viewing one of Shout! Factory’s Best of the Electric Company DVDs yesterday, a couple of clips stood out in a) unearthing tingly deja-vu feelings, and b) showcasing the often daring visual and musical cues the show took. These are both from episode #453, which first aired on January 15, 1975. The kinetic and colorful […]

My Muxtape Is Chullin’

April 10th, 2008

I have been so busy lately, getting some extra work in before taking the dream trip next week — but I did have time to do a little fun thing last night. I went to Muxtape.com and set up a little playlist at scrubbles.muxtape.com (thanks to Jonny). This playlist is the result of an early […]

Weekly Mishmash: March 30-April 5

April 6th, 2008

Atonement (2007). This one seemed a bit too predictable from the previews, but I found it really absorbing once the momentum of what will happen to Keira Knightley and James MacAvoy started building. Direction was good if a little show-offy (the six-minute tracking shot on the beach, and a scene with Knightley primping in front […]

That ‘Screen Saver’ Look

April 4th, 2008

A new Two Bunnies and a Duck hatched today … and now for something completely different. I was rearranging shelves in my bedroom yesterday and came across a few stowed-away items that have been saved since my first computer came into my life in 1992. First is the sheet of Apple Computer decals which came […]

It’s Always Time for Flying Penguins

April 2nd, 2008

An April Fools joke from Terry Jones and the BBC:

White Elephant Blogging: Follow That Bird

April 1st, 2008

I have to admit that my maiden voyage into the second annual White Elephant Film Blogathon was approached with some trepidation. What kind of cinematic turd are they gonna hand me? Then I found out the movie I was to write about was Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird — hey, that’s not so bad. […]