The niece dragged her parents up here for a few days of visiting and after a full day of family-friendly activity — food and Fort Edmonton fun — Derek and I are opting to check out the premier of the new X-Files movie tonight, mere hours from this writing. I’m not exactly on the [...]

The new X-Files movie comes out in a few days. And while this wouldn’t normally be a topic I discuss out on the blog, a few people have been privy to the info that Derek made an appearance as an extra. I suppose it’s as good as it gets when you’re a techie, but [...]

Karin and I ordered “The Golden Compass” from the local Video-On-Demand service this weekend as we found ourselves sitting at home on a Saturday night with not much else to do. Since reading the book a couple months back I’d been anxiously looking forward to seeing the film adaptation, especially in consideration of its (a) [...]

Some people know that I’m a real sucker for animation. I should have done that for serious, gone to art school, learned to draw, and then sketched out little animated movies. It would have been more real.
I’m not talking about every bit of animation. It all has it’s place. But there [...]

… meanwhile, back in Edmonton:
It’s hot. Very hot. I suppose for anyone reading this from a faraway land where mid-30 Celsius temperatures are the norm, I’m just a bit of a whiner. But keep in mind that this is as warm as it gets here. Record highs.
Blah.
We retreated to [...]

Unlikely that you’ve heard of this one, but we rented and watched Mirrormask last night. I think, as far as abstract pieces of movie art this was quite an eyeful. Turns of phrase made real, art come to life, another world of the imagination. You’ve seen this stuff before. It’s a weak [...]

I guess that means my warantee is up. Karin and I celebrated yesterday by ordering pizza and falling asleep in front of the television. That memorable date June 8, 2005 is when we took possession of our house and spent the day moving junk across the city. It was raining then, too, [...]

Someone stop me. Okay, fine. I’ll say it: I made fun of this channel when it first premiered, shifting all the stations to confusion. It didn’t bother me, or anything. Flipping through our digi-cable listings, all I saw for that first week was movies from the thirties and forties, in their own [...]

Oddly enough the weekend was slightly sentimental.
We finally (after a dozen years) made it to a Barenaked Ladies concert, crashing the Centenial Jam with our free tickets, and bombarding the field-level seating for some stand-up, close-up, rock-up action. Back in ‘93, when I found myself in a rainy mountain field surrounded by ten-thousand boy [...]

At the risk of self-referencing, I’d like to point out that I was completely geeky and uncool before it was cool to be geeky and uncool. Caseinpoint:
Forty-two….
Mark this moment in time…
VOTE
the hitchhiker’s guide to the perseids
one way to make my day…
snow crash
Though I was a little crushed that I couldn’t get an adequate bitrate [...]

While the gals went off and charmed themselves with some Costner-ized chick-flick, Brett and I checked out the latest mental wax-job, Sin City. From the ranting and crushing reviews I’d heard as a lead-up, the conservative perspective of the promised dark-as-in-evil comedic violence, my anticipation equated to something like standing in line for a [...]

With very little remorse and plenty of gurgling humour, I crushed a meme within the skull of my six-year-old cousin this past weekend.
Kids have stacks of those weird concepts, anyhow. I suppose, ultimately, it’s better that they lose them slowly and from a variety of sources than all at once. It would be [...]