Contributing to global climate change since 1965, Allen believes that you have a Constitutional right to his opinion. If you’re familiar with the Japanese story and film called Rashomon, (and I suppose to some extent, the TV series 24), then you’ll find quite a lot to like in Vantage Point. It’s one part point-of-view experiment and one part traditional thriller. If you’re not into all that egg-head “perspective and perception of the human [...]
Phone Army, originally uploaded by thompsonian.net. Here we see the Mobile Phone Army charged and ready for maneuvers. I’ve personally seen TT talking on three phones at once. They weren’t these three phones but it was an impressive sight just the same. TT insists that I point out the “pink” one on the left isn’t [...]
Two really big events for me today… well, three actually. I got to go outside the house for a doctor’s appointment. I got to wear pants. I got to go outside with pants on (for a change). Pants are seriously overrated but the “authorities” continue to insist that I wear pants when I’m in the [...]
Meh. It didn’t suck. Or as I once heard a music critic say of a popular band, “We haven’t heard anything like this from them since their last album.” Spider-Man 3 had everything: the Stan Lee cameo, the Bruce Campbell cameo (okay, a really funny cameo) and the Spider-Man theme snuck in as a practical [...]
I was all ready to skip this movie because I couldn’t make heads or tails of the Beowulf poem when I read it in high school. However, right now I’m a little bored and it is difficult for me to do much more than to lay still and watch TV so I thought, “why not?” [...]
Well, not really. We’re still going to have a summer but my participation in it has been severely limited by realities outside of my control. The latest event involved additional illness, some surgery and an extended hospital stay. I’m healing now and will most likely survive until my next medical emergency. Meanwhile, I just had [...]
