Archive for December, 2005

12 Monkeys

Monday, December 5th, 2005

[Netflix] [IMDb]
A plague killed nearly everybody way back in 1997. It’s now 2035 and James Cole (Bruce Willis) is some kind of prisoner and is sent back in time to, um, something. It’s never really clear what he’s trying to do. They keep saying things like “try to find out what happened” and so on, [...]

The Man from Planet X

Monday, December 5th, 2005

[Netflix] [IMDb]
I really like 50s nucular monster movies, 50s peacnik monster movies, and 50s alien monster movies. Generally. There is a lot of bad schlock (as opposed to good schlock) out there, though. This is one of them. There’s really not much reason to recap the plot. Well, okay. Alien lands, scares girl, tangles with [...]

First Night

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

From Hub on Wheels:
*New Year’s Eve* Bike Ride
Hub On Wheels in this year’s First Night Procession!
Come join us, and the folks at First Night… Celebrate our friends in New Orleans. Ride your bike with beads, masks, music, and good cheer as we ring in the New Year, parading from Boylston Street all the way to [...]

Interesting

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Ruminating on a link from fixedgear
Skidmark: No. 7, Vol. 1 - Lancey-Pants.
First let me say, I agree with Shakespeare.
Second, there seems to be some truth on both sides. While IANAL, I do have a wee bit of experience in copyright and trademarks, so this bloger is mistaken when he says

The LAF didn’t copyright the name [...]