Thursday, December 24, 2009

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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We were watching the Grinch (the classic Chuck Jones cartoon, not the overblown Jim Carey movie) last night and marveling at how well it ha...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Christmas Story

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I haven't seen anyone mention it but the events in Christmas Story take place 70 years ago this year (1939). The movie was not a big h...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Zune HD Review

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I got a Zune HD for my birthday. It is a fun device. Previously I had been using a Sansa View and a Nokia n800 Internet Tablet for viewing...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Platform wars

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Things are getting interesting in technology. A lot of new players have entered the arena and there will be a lot of shake-out in the next c...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Good by Mr. Monk

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Something over eight years ago Tony Shalhoub came up with an idea for a TV detective. This one would be obsessive-compulsive name Adrian Mon...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

In Defense of the Little Mermaid

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Wired's Geekdad listed  Top 10 bad lessons from good movies movies . Number two was: It's OK to completely change your physical a...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Why Are They Showing This Now? - the game

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It used to be that studios simply advertised movies. Now they market them with other movies. When I watch a movie on TV I tend to wonder, ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

The Original Prisoner

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It came and went forty years ago on American TV as a Summer replacement series. I was syndicated in the 1970s on independent stations. It we...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Dickens's Christmas Carol

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A new version of A Christmas Carol comes out today. This one uses motion capture and CGI. Reviews have not been kind. From the beginning I w...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Too Many Vampires?

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MSNBC asks if there are too many vampire movies and TV shows. Their conclusion: While their popularity may ebb and flow, vampires always w...
Monday, October 19, 2009

The Raven

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In the early 1960s, American International pumped out a series of movies loosely based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and staring Vincen...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The Coming IPhone App Crash

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Newsweek has an article on how few IPhone developers actually make money. This is probably the first part of a market shakedown. The math i...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Monty Python at 40

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40 years ago this month Monty Python started running on the BBC. A few years later it appeared in America on PBS. On the station I watched, ...
Friday, October 02, 2009

Peanuts

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50 years ago Peanuts started. It had a long run with the last new strip appearing the day of it's creator's death (Charles Shultz ha...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

FF Blogging - Galactus

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It's been a while but I got up to FF #48-50. Stan and Jack wanted to introduce something new - a character so powerful that he thought o...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Disney and Marvel

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Over the weekend Disney announced that it was buying Marvel for $4 billion. This is probably a good thing. For the short-term, it does not ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Netbooks, Microsoft and Apple

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(Taking a break from comic book blogging) Netbooks are currently the hottest part of the PC market. These are loosely defined as an low-cost...
Monday, August 03, 2009

More Anti-Hero Villains

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Continuing my last post... Marvel has a long history of noble villains who crossed over but still maintained most of their original characte...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Anti-hero villains

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I was just thinking about some of the early Marvel villains. I've always maintained that one of the reasons for Marvel's prominence ...
Friday, July 24, 2009

DRM and digital devices

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Two incidents have come up recently which illustrate the problems with modern electronic devices. The first happened with Amazon's Kindl...