Got my orders on Friday. Gave some blood, took a urine sample, let them put monitors on my heart and x-ray my chest for a while that afternoon. Filled out paperwork. Told them I was Catholic in case a priest needed to be called. Spent yesterday driving around with parents and hanging out with old [...]

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 [...]

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 understand why some people hate Christmas. This year I am one grumpy customer.  There are no decorations: no tree, no lights, nothing. It’s 87 degrees outside. I lost at cards last night. Went to see No Country For Old Men (I’ll post my thoughts later). Three showings of National Treasure: Book of Secrets were [...]

PC World put out a list of the 15 biggest Tech disappointments in 2007. An eleven-year-old teaches you how to change your oil. The Huffington post manages to patronize the children of Colombia and the Cleveland Indians at the same time.  Big Spring School District says detention letter a hoax.  Seems a little fishy to [...]

Last night, after playing some Guitar Hero– I played base while Jamie Bono played guitar. If you consider that he probably hit 100% of his notes and we averaged 76%, that means that I only sucked about 48% of the time. The other 52% was me rocking out! More than half! More than half! If [...]

I’ve been meeting all sorts of people these days. But, I’ll explain. Last Saturday (October 27) I went to a Pitt in Hollywood event, where Greg Nictoero talked about creating monsters and severed heads and Fat Bastard for over 650 movies. My old professor, Carl Kurlander, put together the whole event. So I figured that [...]