So in Greek Mythology, when a baby of some consequence is born, the oracle is consulted. The oracle then says something along the lines of “Baby Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother.” Then the parents freak out, send the baby away, and later, when the baby is an adult, the baby freaks [...]

Charlton Heston died today. My mother really liked him the The Ten Commandments. So, apparently, did the LA Times. I’m always amazed by how the dead are represented. Which picture gets picked? Especially with someone like Chuck Heston. His oeuvre is spectacular in its range and imagery, so which image becomes the definitive one: Moses? [...]

Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will step in and finish playing Heath Ledger’s role in the new Terry Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I’m intrigued. The recent Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There, played with the same technique, but on purpose. The fact that Heath Ledger died is forcing Gilliam to [...]

I’m in shock. Total shock. Unexpected celebrity deaths are happening left and right.

Bobby Fischer died yesterday in Iceland. From the BBC: The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972, died of an unspecified illness, his spokesman said. He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a way to avoid being deported to the US. Mr Fischer was wanted for [...]

I haven’t blogged in about nine days, because (well) I’ve been in Pittsburgh.  School started, I had a bunch of paperwork and I needed to take care of, and I needed to fill my life with as much scandal as possible. Then, this morning, I open up the inter-web-tubes and discover some terrible news. Brad [...]

I’m a big fan of TLAs (my old boss at Enron Defense loved saying “TLA” all the time. He’d say something like “EBS and other TLAs.” The first day of work I stared at him until he finally explained: Three Letter Acronym. Clever! And so I use it now all the time). The CNF (Creative [...]