Company Picnic |
We had our company picnic yesterday. Pretty odd to have it on the first day of August, as the first of the month is always the most important day in Workers Comp insurance; that is, many more companie...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:38:00 GMT |
Dark Knight of Elizabethtown |
I don't take vacations very often, usually just a day off here and there to stave off burn-out, but just after July 4th I took the kids to Chicago to see my folks for a few days, then we all met up wi...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:06:00 GMT |
Movies |
"I'm a good ol' boy but I been sniffin' too many eggs, talkin' to many people, drinkin' too many kegs" -- Bob Dylan, "Please Mrs. Henry"I've been working very hard and then coming home late to wind do...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:13:00 GMT |
All I Have Are Words |
Took the day off because my neck is killing me it's so tight. I think I pinched a nerve or tweaked something moving furniture last weekend. I'm not an ibuprofen guy because I rarely get headaches but ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 21:44:00 GMT |
Fela, WB Crime, Abbey Road, Sh*t Robot |
Saturday I spent a ridiculous amount of money on margaritias and overpriced appetizers at a pretty-good Mexican eatery near me. Seared ahi tostaditas were nice but should have been much better or in b...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:52:00 GMT |
Review - Night of the Hunter |
Night of the Hunter is a terrific, weird, cheap, beautiful, dreamy and tacked-together masterpiece, a rare auteur film from the '50s Hollywood studio system as stylized as Douglas Sirk but all the mor...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:50:00 GMT |
Kill Baby Kill! and Baron Blood |
Two more Mario Bava movies consumed. Kill Baby Kill is the last disc in the first dvd box set, about a town literally haunted by the death of a little girl. Apparently she is forcing people to kill th...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:39:00 GMT |
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart |
I finally bought this acclaimed Wilco documentary. I don't know why I waited; I guess I was concerned it was going to be mainly about stuff I already knew a lot about, like their record label drama an...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:29:00 GMT |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
I saw this last night with a friend. Very well done, funny romantic comedy written by and starring Jason Segel, also starring Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Jonah Hill and Paul Rudd. As far as I'm concerne...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:21:00 GMT |
More Movies |
Continued my Mario Bava thing with two more from the five disc Anchor Bay set, Mario Bava Collection Vol. 1. The first was The Girl Who Knew Too Much and I think it was Bava's last movie in black and ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:35:00 GMT |
