Archive for August, 2006

UFC 62: Best UFC PPV Ever?

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

I just wrote a fucking masterpiece of a post here reviewing UFC 62 and then my browser crashed AFTER I finished but before I clicked “publish”.
I’m not writing it again, just going to answer my own question: YES.
(I hate computers)

NoDa Film Festival Starts Today

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

The NoDa Film Festival starts today at the Neighborhood Theatre. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Great Asian Cinema“.
I won’t be able to make all of the movies (though I hate to miss great FREE movies I’ll never see on a big screen elsewhere) but I will definitely make it out Wednesday for Battle Royale, [...]

See? Deciding What to Imagine is HARD

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

As a backhanded complimentary post to my earlier post about the challenge of having to decide what to manifest in our lives, I present this wonderful quote from Overheard In New York:
She’s Imagining a Future Without Him
College-Aged guy: “Imagine”?? I don’t get it. What am I supposed to imagine?
Girlfriend: Shhh, let’s go!
–Strawberry Fields, Central Park
Overheard [...]

Knowing That We Can Have Anything

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Knowing that we can have anything, the challenge becomes deciding what to want.

We’re Number 34!

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Charlotte is only number 34 this year but I’m sure we’ll do better this year.   Charlotte seems to be following Cingular’s motto (’more bars in more places’) and that is fine with me.
Forbes.com’s Top Drinking Cities:
1. Milwaukee
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul
3. Columbus, Ohio
4. Boston
5. Austin, Texas
6. Chicago
7. Cleveland
8 Pittsburgh
9. Philadelphia
9. Providence, R.I. (tied)
11. St. Louis
12. San Antonio
13. [...]

A Scanner Darkly era Interview With Philip K. Dick

Friday, August 25th, 2006

A 3+ minute video with highlights of a video interview with PKD around the time A Scanner Darkly was published, I assume.
[via boingboing]

UFC 63: Hughes to Face Penn

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

B. J. Penn gets his wish and will fight Matt Hughes again, even though Penn lost his fight again George St. Pierre.  GSP was to fight Hughes but had to bow out due to a pulled groin [insert masturbation joke here] so (figuratively and literally) big-headed, loud-mouthed Penn gets to lose the second of his [...]

My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nada

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Pluto officially got the boot today. And I never even finished reading that old used book about how Pluto came to be discovered and classed as a planet in the first place…
You’ll always be a planet in my book, Pluto.  I sure don’t plan on editing it.