Ah, nothing like an attention-grabbing comic book stunt, is there? When I was slightly younger, my brothers and I would remake Archie comics by cutting and pasting word balloons from one story to another. The results made exactly as much sense, but were much, much funnier. But right now, I just want to point out…
Month: May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
For a Trek movie, Star Trek makes a pretty good Star Wars movie. It has lots of chases and shootouts and space battles. It has lame, obvious humour, winking callbacks to previous instalments, and meaningless blah-blah about “destiny”. Plus, cute alien sidekicks. All of which I kind of dug in the way I still dig,…
look! change
The look the site has been sporting the past few weeks was never intended to be permanent, so I figured I’d best be demonstrating that fact by shaking things up. So I’m in the process of looking for a theme that I like, that works with the various site elements (like the movie reviews side…
David Lynch’s Goofy Movie
Apparently, there’s a whole subculture of amateur editors making David Lynch mashup parodies, but this is the only one I’ve seen that really captures what makes Lynch so damn creepy and effective (hint: it’s not backwards-talking weirdos and 1950s music).
trees like pink popcorn
trees like pink popcorn, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. East 23rd Avenue at dusk, in cherry blossom season.