Tonight and tomorrow (July 26th and 27th), I will be running the video screen at the Vilification Tennis show at the Bryant-Lake Bowl. Vilification Tennis is essentially tennis played with insults, and it is one of the more popular and nerdy comedy shows in the Twin Cities. (It is also …
After a little bit of troubleshooting (“Hey, did anyone submit the link to iTunes yet?”), my latest podcasting endeavor, A Reel Education, is now on iTunes! Thus, if you are one of those iTunes-using types, you can now easily subscribe to A Reel Education and have Apple delivery it directly …
If you were paying attention around Oscar-time, you may have noticed that a film called The Impossible was up for a few awards here and there. Naomi Watts was nominated for acting awards pretty much everywhere. Many film critics were hailing the film as a fine drama. However, of all …
In one of my previous Tales from the Workplace tales, I mentioned that I once worked at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I would strap myself into an expensive costume and use a bad English accent to sell things to dusty Minnesotans who had drunk too much. This tale predates the previous …
I admit, this is probably the least useful how-to article ever written. People who fall in love with the cinema seem to have no problem plunging in without any guidance whatsoever. However, these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for a while, and for me, any excuse to …
Many years ago, I was in Puerto Rico as part of a web design team for the U.S. government (which is, in itself, a long story). I was due to fly back home in the early afternoon, and I had the morning to kill. I’d never prowled around the old …
Back in December 2012, I saw the first promotional trailer for Pain & Gain, Michael Bay’s latest cinematic outing. I’m usually lukewarm on Michael Bay at best, but when I saw the trailer, something in my lizard brain said, “Yes. Yes, I want to see that. I want to see …
In the wake of the Zimmerman trial verdict, I’ve seen a lot people throw the term “racist” around in social media. In the weeks before, the social upheaval of choice surrounded “fake geek girls” (again), and the term “sexist” got tossed around a lot. Many other terms of prejudice get bandied …
At the Day Job, I work at a standing desk, in a cube that only has walls that go up to my chest. As I face my computer screen, I face the opposite side of a hallway, which goes past my cube. In all these months at this desk, this …
I’ve been remiss in my blogging duties thanks to pneumonia and CONvergence. (One was far more pleasant than the other, I assure you.) But now that life has returned to relative normality, the Thursday tradition shall resume! Quick, tell me about the most ridiculous thing you would buy if you …
