http://www.handeye.net/blog/ en-us 2009-01-29T19:41:49-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2009_01.htm#004754 What was more exciting in D.C.? Getting to see Barack Obama's Inauguration, or realizing that after it was over, I DID still have the use of all my toes? That I hadn't lost even one to frostbite? Truly it was... Chris 2009-01-29T19:41:49-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2009_01.htm#004755 Note to movies: Let us call a moratorium on the naked people crumpled up in the fetal position and crying desperately in their tub as the shower runs. I have last seen this depicted in the trailer for Two Lovers,... Chris 2009-01-26T21:58:25-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2009_01.htm#004753 I don't like having to talk to townspeople in games. As a point of interest - this reflects my actual life, in which I also don't like to talk to townspeople.... Chris 2009-01-14T20:52:36-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2009_01.htm#004752 Ricardo Montalban, beloved and much imitated by me, has passed on to Ceti Alpha One at age 88. He will be missed. Did anyone seeth as expertly as him? Could anyone pass from seething to arrogant pity so well? Even... Chris 2009-01-14T14:42:25-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_12.htm#004749 Brotherhood of Satan. Absurd but sort of fun late-night 1971 Satan flick. Something about strange disappearances of children and a couple trapped in a town after a breakdown. I can't imagine a more improbably high priest of the Dark One... Chris 2008-12-18T13:32:39-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_12.htm#004748 Saw the original The Day The Earth Stood Still again last night. Despite being punctuated by frequent commercial breaks and inane trivia (Thanks, AMC), I'm glad I got to see it before we rush out to see the remake this... Chris 2008-12-12T09:42:26-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_12.htm#004746 Here's a comic strip I made starring Mazinga: The year is not over yet of course, but this is my list of favorite films I saw in 08: Blindness Rachel Getting Married Synecdoche, NY The Fall My Winnipeg Tell No... Chris 2008-12-08T10:11:39-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_12.htm#004744 Coal Miner's Daughter. I haven't IMDB'd or Googled to see if this is the prototypical musician biopic, but it's the first one I remember that went into some of the sordid details. I remember Doolittle Lynn being interviewed about the... Chris 2008-12-02T12:17:37-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_12.htm#004741 Note to young rockers singing from a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Float: Next time you find yourself performing from a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Float, just know that what you are doing cannot be described as "rocking." Note to Merriam-Webster's... Chris 2008-12-01T12:46:59-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_11.htm#004742 So, my guy won. On the night of the election we went to the same bar we'd been in four years previously when we got the news. It was like returning to the spot where you'd once been attacked by... Chris 2008-11-20T16:19:22-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_11.htm#004739 More phone-banking for Obama happened. Let me say this, and it is not a point of pride - I don't do well as a cog in a very large machine. I am not the man you want in a volume... Chris 2008-11-04T09:28:52-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_10.htm#004738 No one is more vocally disappointed by Shyamalan's post-Unbreakable movies than me it seems, but with The Happening I was conflicted - the previews looked so chilling, so promising. Maybe this was a return to Sixth Sense form? I considered... Chris 2008-10-22T09:48:20-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_10.htm#004737 ... for the cold calls this weekend. In my defense it was on behalf of the Obama campaign, but man do I hate calling people at home. I hate hate hate it. It was for democracy, people. But what an... Chris 2008-10-21T14:27:08-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_10.htm#004736 The Santa Anas appeared this week to whip up some fires - they are the winds that boaters fear so much but no one can be very specific about when they show up or how you might know from a... Chris 2008-10-15T15:53:08-08:00 http://www.handeye.net/blog/archives/2008_10.htm#004735 I do try to avoid political rants in this space now, which is also why I blog infrequently. I think that living in the U.S. for the last few years has felt like I imagine a time-traveler to the future... Chris 2008-10-10T15:16:44-08:00