Thank You for Smoking is a satire about a lobbyist that helps Big Tobacco with its public relations problems. That is, he has to help them because their product kills people. His only two friends have similar jobs, one works for the alcohol industry, the other one for the gun industry. They call themselves the [...]

I was going to watch Silent Hill a week ago, but Alex Esotérica (see a pattern here?) convinced me to watch Thank You for Smoking, since Silent Hill was “obviously a piece of shit.” Later in the week, I started getting good reviews on Silent Hill. And the next thing I knew, Alex was back [...]

A while ago I had a chance to watch Exorcist: The Beginning, a movie that I liked a hell of a lot until Alex Esotérica told me a little dark secret about it: it was not the original movie as intended by its director. Here’s the short version: The studio wants a gorefest. The director [...]

Well, now that all the drama has sort of quieted down, I am running out of excuses for not writing more. The first step was to do some cleanup in Pulling Strings, since at least two of my readers complained that there were two parts of the book that were not up to par with [...]

Yup, the Commonwealth is closing its doors for most agencies except law enforcement, emergency medical care, etc. Puerto Rico’s deficit hit a cool billion dollars, so it will have to shut down starting May. It only has enough cash to preserve law and order and to keep certain critical medical services. Everyone else is going [...]

The Sentinel is going to screw up everyone’s weekend, especially the ones that like 24 and thought it would be an “unofficial” 24 feature movie. It wasn’t. What it was: one of the weakest the-prez-is-gonna-get-wacked conspiracy movies in many years. It is WEAK. And why? It wasn’t Michael Douglas, he was sort of OK. It [...]

Yeah, I survived the double molar extraction. It still hurts, but right now I have taken one pain pill in over 24 hours, so it is getting much better. I would like to apologize for the slow pace with the blogging. You would think that with many years of experience it gets to the point [...]

Today I was kidnapped by a deranged nazi war criminal, who is also a sadistic dentist that uses his medical knowledge to torture you into confessing God knows what. Or something like that. What actually happened is that many years of dentist phobias caught up with me, and I ended having two molars extracted today [...]

From Adam@Home: This is one of my pet peeves. You are a caffeine addict, and you are hurting for your fix, and you have to wait in line while the two idiots ahead of you order triple half-decaf, nonfat vanilla lattes, extra hot and with a shot of caramel. Or something like that. All my [...]

Also that the sky is blue and drugs are bad, mmkay? From Cnet (through Slashdot): Negroponte says Linux too ‘Fat’: Cadef writes “According to a story on CNet News.com, Nicholas Negroponte says that Linux has gotten too fat, and will have to be slimmed down before it will be practical for the $100 laptop project. [...]