Waiting for Gouda

We had a bit of excitement in the neighborhood this last week, as we were invaded by the production crew for the new Johnny Depp / Michael Mann film, called Public Enemies. The movie is about John Dillinger and other gangster types in 1930’s Chicago, and they’ve decided to get authentic by shooting much [...]

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Wesley Snipes is going to jail.
Apparently you can’t always bet on black.
From the AP wire:

AP - The action star receives the maximum sentence — one year for each conviction, despite letters from Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington.
What!?
Are you seriously telling me that a letter of recommendation from Woody freakin’ Harrelson cannot keep a man out [...]

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We are all doomed, and of course it is Bill Gates’ fault.
The Big M is unveiling something called “Live Mesh”. You can read all about it, if you’re into that sort of thing. I’m sure that it’s got something to do with being more productive and data management, and you know… folders of [...]

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Every once in a while, the Lovely Wife(TM) and I reserve a spot in the ol’ Netflix queue for a movie that we feel that we probably should see, not necessarily because we really want to see it, but rather because, you know… it’s supposed to be good.
Usually these are films that have been around [...]

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Is it just me, or is that hairy, cartoonish ancient guy in the Beowulf trailer who yells “I AM BEOWULF!” an awful lot like the hairy, cartoonish ancient guy in that other movie who yells “THIS IS SPARTA!”?

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