Monthly Archives: February 2008

God bless Gary Busey

Not taking down the 2008 Oscars remains my biggest regret of the recently-ended WGA strike. I’m sorry, but the raconteur and destruction artist in me wanted to burn the motherfucker to the ground while holding out for a better deal.

Posted in Movies

I can’t sync my goddamn Treo to my Mac anymore…

So nice to upgrade to Mac Office 2008 with a new Treo 755p (not to mention the OSX upgrade to Leopard)… only to find that Microsoft no longer includes a conduit for syncing Entourage to mobile devices. Over the past

Posted in Miscellaneous

John McCain Is Already Toast

How much time, money and good will is going to spent before he and the media accept this fact?

Posted in News/Politics

Hillary Clinton Concession Watch

Obama just breezed past again and she’s been left swirling in the dust he left behind. It’s time for my Senator to concede this race with grace, dignity and resolve toward electing Barack Obama and taking back the White House

Posted in News/Politics

Stephen Colbert Welcomes Back His Writers

I was (and remain) pissed off that the late night hosts went back to work before the WGA strike ended. These guys are Guild members who were clearly not ad-libbing. If Jay, Conan, Jon and Stephen composed their thoughts seconds

Posted in WGA Strike

Obama Keeps Winning

Barack Obama is unexpectedly bridging the gap between Giants Super Bowl glory and the holy start of Yankees spring training. Winning by huge margins (it’ll be 10 state victories in a row after he trounces Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin next

Posted in News/Politics

WGA Meeting In NYC: What Happened

Well, this strike is just about over. I went into this membership meeting anxious, but also recalcitrant. I only received the summarized points of of the new agreement an hour or so before the meeting. So, fairly pissed off, I

Posted in WGA Strike

The Nightmare Factory Makes Bookslut’s Top Graphic Novels List for 2007

Bookslut has a list and THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY is on it. Hey… somebody should put together a VOLUME 2 of that stuff. Hmmm… wonder if they will…

Posted in Comics, The Nightmare Factory

Is the WGA Strike About to End?

I’m not holding my breath. That DGA deal was a joke. Must have been. But I’m keeping an open mind this time. I’ve honestly been holding off posting anything about the supposed ‘breakthroughs’ we’ve been hearing about. My Strike Captain

Posted in WGA Strike

Post Super-Tuesday Hangover

I am wiped out, having sat nestled and sustainedly ‘altered’ to best achieve that out-of-focus sort of attention necessary to ingesting cable news political coverage these days. Obama and Hilary are, essentially, tied in the pledged delegate count. Momentum almost

Posted in News/Politics
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