So we got back confirmation of what films we’ll be seeing on our film pass for the festival. Unfortunately, we didn’t get everything we wanted – advance tickets are distributed basically by lottery. We got most of our first picks, but three of our movies went to second picks, and two other pairs of tickets…

Just got our selection forms and programme guide today for the Toronto International Film Festival – and I’m so fucking pumped about it! September 8-17, Danielle and I will be in Toronto for the Festival of Festivals – we got an apartment just on the edge of Yorkville for the week, and we plan to…

So the International Astronomical Union (whoever the hell that is), after much speculation surrounding its recent re-definition of what constitutes a planet, has officially booted Pluto out of our solar system. Bad day for Pluto. Bad day for Science teachers too – they’ve only got a few short weeks to take a magic marker and…

The first two parts of Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke have aired on HBO. As you would expect from Lee, it can be a little heavy handed, and a lot of the death and destruction can be hard to watch, but it’s all very powerful and moving, and worth a look. For the HBO…

Well, if Mike’s gonna start a blog, then I guess I can take inspiration and try posting again to mine on occasion… that, plus I got to get my motherfucking Sam Jackson on in the title of this motherfucking post. Motherfucker. Sam sure owns the term “Motherfucker”, doesn’t he? Nobody can quite do it like…

Not that I imagine anyone comes here much, but what the hell… an update. Let’s see, what’s happened since April? Well, about three weeks after that post below about not having a job, I got a job… I wasn’t really looking, it just kinda fell in my lap. It’s a great job – another consulting…

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nine inch nails has made a Garageband file of a track from the new album available for download. Cool. Time to play!

Michael Buffington: “Google maps is simply a sign of things to come. With ideas like Ajax, the web as we know it is currently changing more so than it probably ever has since the first graphic showed up. The entire way of thinking about how to make sites that people interact with is changing. The…

How to make fire with a can of Coke and a chocolate bar. Y’know, just in case.