• The Family Sacrements: Last Rites (Part I)

    I did not cry. I hadn’t realized this until I stood over my father’s grave, staring down onto his coffin covered with single flowers and a light dusting of snow that had just begun to fall. Not one tear. It [...]

  • Happy Pi Day Everyone!

    It’s 3.14 y’all. Let’s calculate the area of a circle and have some kind of dessert item. I can’t for the life of me think what kind we should have. I’m sure it will come to me eventually. In the [...]

  • Very Cool: Terry Gilliam Animation Tutorial

    Ever wondered what the process was behind those bizarre and wonderful animations on Monty Python? Terry Gilliam of explains the method behind his famous cut-out animations on Bob Godfrey’s Do-It-Yourself Film Animation Show, May 5, 1974.

  • The film that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    This film was groundbreaking for its time and narrated by Douglas Rain, the voice for HAL 9000. Take a look, well worth it. Universe by Roman Kroitor & by Colin Low, National Film Board of Canada

  • Staring at Empty Pages: An Apology

    So, there has not been a post in a couple of weeks. No original in several more. Why is this? Well, it seems I have taken an unplanned hiatus from the website. There are several reasons for this or as [...]

  • Beck Reimagins David Bowie’s Sound and Vision

    Got 10 minutes? ‘Cuz this is awesome. Beck reimagines David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” features over 160 musicians, including: The Dap-Kings, a string orchestra, a gamelan ensemble, members of the USC marching band, a Peruvian charango group, choirs, guitarists, a [...]

  • The (Lack of) History Channel

    Okay this has been one of my pet peeves/borderline obsessions for quite a while now. The History Channel no longer plays anything even remotely close to actual history. This is a shame as history is one of my favorite things, [...]

  • Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy! (Why the world needs a Buckaroo Banzai reboot)

    The entertainment world is rife with reboots, re-imaginings and do-overs. The Battlestar Galactica re-imagining did quite well for itself. And the reboot of Doctor Who, not too shabby. Even Spider-man was given a do-over just a mere 5 years after [...]

  • “The Black Marble”

    This incredible movie made up of a composite of photographs taken by a satellite of Earth’s dark side show how we radiate a web of light into the darkness of space. NASA and NOAA released the video to show off [...]

  • A Timeline of Doctor Who Infographic

    Frequent readers of this blog know that I’m a sucker for the Doctor. Who can do no wrong. Okay, there was this time in the mid-eighties with a guy in a colorful jacket, oh and the TV movie, but other [...]

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