Month: November 2006
bubba ho-tep
Brian’s boss is always lending him movies. They guy has eclectic tastes, to say the least. Because I’m too lazy to summarize the plot, here’s an excerpt from the back of the DVD, “When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it’s up to an aging, cantankerous “Elvis” and …
the human camera
You have to check this guy out. “He’s an autistic man who accurately draws entire cities from memory after a single 45-minute helicopter ride — right down to the correct number of windows in each building.”
bird flu
It’s that time of the year again. I scanned through a really interesting online book about the bird flu the other day. It’s mostly a discussion of past pandemics and how the current bird flu is brewing. And, I stumbled upon this great preparedness guide today. The password is ‘fluwikie‘. …
an american haunting
This was a movie about a witch– The Bell Witch. By all accounts, I think John Bell may have died of bordedom. What an awful movie. And, it wasn’t awful in a good way that you could laugh at, it was just terribly not interesting. Two thumbs down.