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Archive for August, 2008

Ball of Fire

Friday, August 29th, 2008

[netflix] [IMDb]
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews, Gene Krupa (cameo)
Dir: Howard Hawks
Professor Potts (Gary Cooper) is one of nine eggheads writing an encyclopedia on commission. Cooper’s current job as an English language expert is to write a section on American slang, but after a conversation with a local trash collector, decides his current work isn’t [...]

Dahts

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I’m thinking of joining a dart league this fall. It’s been 15 years since I’ve played and I’ve never played with soft tips before. Apparently, Boston or maybe Massachusetts has a weird rule where steel tipped darts are not allowed in a place that sells alcohol. So I went out and got a cheap set [...]

Sheldon lives on

Monday, August 18th, 2008

in today’s Yehuda Moon

Who watches the watchers?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

SRSLY

Futures at Fenway

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Saturday some friends and I went to Futures at Fenway (Presented by Filene’s Basement) at Fenway Park. It was a double header where the Single-A Lowell Spinners (Red Sox) took on Hudson Valley Renegades (Tampa Bay) in ther first game, and Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox (Red Sox) played the Charlotte Knights (White Sox) in [...]

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

[netflix] [IMDb]
Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt) dispatched the powerful vampire Erzsabet Ondrushko (Kath Soucie) many years ago, but some of her minions are trying to raise her again. Erzabet’s victims, thousands of them, haunt a house a weathly real estate developer has just purchased, and the Professor, Hellboy (Ron Pearlman), Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), and Liz [...]

For Your Consideration

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

[netflix] [IMDb]
A director (Christopher Guest) has never had a hit until there starts to be buzz about his current work, Home for Purim, starring an aging perenial C-list actor and commercial pitch-man, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer), and a the an over-the-hill actress, Marylin Hack (Catherine O’Hara) who once won accolades staring as a blind [...]

You’ve just crossed over into … The Twilight Zone

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I ran across this today. Unfortunately, CBS doesn’t allow embedding, so it’s only a link. But if you’ve ever owned a dog, you should watch this.
Get a box of tissues first, though.

What happened to the other post

Monday, August 4th, 2008

I had a post on here yesterday about some renovations I’ve had done that I’m not happy with. The manager of installation got back to me within hours of my writing him to show him the photos of the work. He asked that the post and pictures be removed until we can get this matter [...]

Red Sox 5 Angels 2

Monday, August 4th, 2008

I haven’t been to a Red Sox game in at least 10 years. I used to go all the time. Some friends and I used to get one ticket for each visiting team, but back then the most expensive tickets we bought were $16 field box seats. Now, those seats are $50. At the time [...]

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

Monday, August 4th, 2008

[amazon] [MBLN] [Sky's The Book Show]
George is retired. His life is comfortable if a bit boring. He has a wife, Jean, and two adult children, a daughter Katie and son Jamie, and a slightly hyperactive grandson, Jacob. Katie is getting remarried to Ray that no one (except Jamie) seems to like, and about whom Katie [...]

Freaks

Friday, August 1st, 2008

I rented Freaks from Netflix a couple of years ago and liked it. It showed up on archive.org today as a streamable movie.
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