“I don’t know how to tell you this, but there’s a spunky redhead in every office.”

broderic on September 7, 2011

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark won’t keep me up at night. While certainly spooky at times, it’s frights never materialized to made me admonish myself to “not be afraid of the dark.” Of course, on occasion, I got goosebumps, but that’s just because it was cold in the theatre. I didn’t even have to hide behind the bill of my cap.

The movie was produced and written by Guillermo del Toro. The monsters were faeries like the ones found in del Toro’s adaption of Hellboy. If you think this spoils the movie for you, then you’ve got to watch to see how they spook out the house owners.

The new owners of the condemned house are a couple of nitwits. Guy Pearse is starting to corner the spineless asshole parts. Katie Holmes didn’t have much to say except be the non-sceptic in the house. The young daughter gets them into trouble, first by coming into their home, then unknowingly unleashing the darkness.

If you have faeries swarming about you, you start sweeping the legs and start sweeping the ground around you. Boot them about!

Not scary enough, but worth a look on a cold winter’s night.

3 of 5 stars

“Rupert Murdoch laughed at me so hard, I thought my speakerphone would burst into flames.”

broderic on September 4, 2011

Link of the Day [9.04.11]

Apple was down in the dumps in the early 00s that in 2001, I remember their stock at $12. This is even after Apple came back with the bondi blue iMac. The company was working, but they were still getting worked. Now look at them. A juggernaut. This is what Steve Jobs left behind.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/and-then-there-were-none/2011/08/31/gIQANykH0J_story.html

“How was I supposed to know that there was an actual person out there called Joe Vigilante?!”

broderic on September 1, 2011

Link of the Day [9.01.11]

I’ve been doing this since 2004. I only do it one month a year. I’ve got about 200 entries. I can’t believe I’m doing it again!

Here we are the start of NewsRadio Quote Month, and I’d like to share the Link of the Day with you of a blog purported to have NewsRadio quotes. It’s got ’em, but only a months worth. For one year. Back in 2008. They did a flurry of posts, but afterwards, nada. If they had continued it, they would have surely surpassed my output by 2009.

A for effort. F for execution.

http://newsradioquotes.blogspot.com/

“Wake up, Manhattan! Wake up, Brooklyn! Wake up… the other three boroughs!”

broderic on September 30, 2010

25 And Living Large: I'm an alcholic! 25 And Living Large 25 And Living Large

This summer I had purchased a 3/4″ floppy drive. My motivation to go backwards in time was to find these photos. Little did I know was that I could’ve just brought the Win95 machine back to life and used it’s floppy drive or barring that I could’ve resurrected the Powerbook 190 for the job. All I’m saying is that I went through plenty of hurdles to put these on my flickr photostream.

These pictures are inspiring me to write a couple of posts about them, about that time, about that person who I was. When I pulled them from the floppy, lots of thoughts and memories came flooding to my mind. I wanted to identify who was who, when was when, and what happened. Needless to say this reminiscing leeds me to think I may have a few tall tales to tell from these photos.

I think I may have a few posts coming…

“Aren’t you wondering why I came in through the window?” “Right now, my curiosity is taking a back seat to my sanity these days.”

broderic on September 29, 2010

Link of the Day [9.29.10]Usually the link of the day comes before the quote of the day, but I wasn't into having a link of the day until after I thought some more about the ending to the K-ON!! anime. I haven't seen it yet (the fansub group I've been following hasn't uploaded the torrent as of this morning), but the usual anime recap site, which I'm linking you to today, has as always a great, image filled narrative of the highlights of the story. It's come to this that I get more joy out of this one anime than anything currently going in my life, and it has ended. As all endings are it's bittersweet. I'm glad I watched it and can't wait until the DVDs are available in the States. I remember K-ON's first season and thinking that it was nothing special. Not until this season did it hit me how completely awesome the show is. It's an animated Seinfeld: a whole bunch of nothing, but charming and sweet. Now it's over and I'll have to find some other show to torrent.http://randomc.net/2010/09/29/k-on-s2-26/