Category: Random

  • Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Davy Jones

    I have nothing to say except the Monkees were a bigger influence on me than even Buddy Holly… Once you’re in, you’re in. It’s like the Mafia.  Once a Monkee, always a Monkee. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

  • Favorite Science Fiction Authors

    A little over a week three months ago I was asked “Who are your favorite sci-fi authors?” I’ve been thinking about how to answer this question… I could list all the sci-fi authors that I like, a la my favorite songs, but that would be an extremely long list… or I could pick just one, but…

  • FIRE: Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

    …what they need to be doing, is creating an environment that’s safe for people to disagree, that’s safe for them to be wrong, that’s safe for them to question authority, that’s safe for them to be able to say outrageous things and have those arguments that we desperately need to have, because if they’re not happening…

  • Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103

    The Age of Discovery has ended, I weep for the future, alone in the dark. Discovery: Flew 148 million miles (238 million km) Completed 39 missions Completed 5,830 orbits Spent 365 days in orbit in over 27 years. Flew more flights than any other Orbiter. Launched of the Hubble Space Telescope. First Orbiter Shuttle and first mission flight…

  • Nine on the Ninth – Red Lanterns RAGE: American Psycho…

    For this month’s Nine on the Ninth I had originally planned to run a list of Horror Movie sequels, really cheesy but fun movies that I could recommend to everyone, but then I saw this: Lionsgate Plots Microbudget Remake Of ‘American Psycho’ Now, right off the bat, I can see two glaring errors in that statement,…

  • NYT: Touch of Evil…

    I know that I didn’t see a lot of Oscar contenders this year, I focused more on my personal tastes after being tricked into seeing Black Swan (Natalie “I’m Sorry” Portman, I blame you), but I don’t know half of these “Stars.” Who is Viola Davis1 and Rooney Mara2? Why is Brad Pitt dressed up…

  • Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Harry Morgan

    It’s been a hard week for good character actors… Harry Morgan past away today. Morgan was at least in his twilight years at 96, but that does put Eli Wallach on a timer, and that is a horrible thing to think on… For many, Morgan was Col. Potter, though I do remember him from Dragnet,…

  • Lock-Out (2012)

    This one almost makes up for the crap-tastic Cabin trailer. Not sure why it’s subtitled, Besson could have dubbed this and I would have watched it… This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

  • Red Lanterns RAGE: WTF Joss Whedon…

    I now know why this movie spent three years on a shelf… This looks like complete horseshit, and I’m being deadly serious. What the FUCK Joss!?! How do you screw up a Cabin in the Woods horror movie, WHEN THE TITLE OF YOUR MOVIE IS THE CABIN IN THE WOODS??? It looks like the kids…