There are a couple of Korean movies that have hit it big this summer. My wife and I caught one of them last Sunday. Titled ‘My Love is Far Away’ (though it appears to be marketed as ‘Sunny’ in English), it’s the story of a young woman who travels to Vietnam to find her husband […]
A a couple of weeks ago there was a row over a cracker. PZ Myers put out a request that consecrated crackers be sent to him for desecration. In the intervening days, his inbox and blog comments have been flooded with kooky Catholic rantings, death threats, and an insistance that he leave the body of […]
Sometimes, the treadmill at the gym can get really tedious. I generally spend an hour on it, sometimes a little longer if the mood strikes me and I have the time to spare. I usually have my headphones plugged into my iPod, which is lying next to the control panel, while the TV is tuned […]
A little over three decades ago, I was a loyal fan of The Electric Company. I’m not sure which season I started watching it, but it almost certainly was not any of the first three. The show and I came into the world the same year, so I assume I had to have been at […]
Joss Whedon has teamed up with Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion to make an internet miniseries in the form of a supervillain musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. I first read about it a couple of days ago on Raph’s blog, then it slipped my mind until Coyote did a write-up on it. I just […]