August 2009 Archives

...but I like it! Have a look at the image below, if your eyes weren't drawn to it long before this silly text. That is Sara Paxton, one of the stars of the CW's new show The Beautiful Life. It's a great image, but at the end of the day, bad promotion.


You see, the ad is successful in that I am now acutely aware of The Beautiful Life. Where it fails is that I have no more desire to watch the show than I did before I knew it existed. I'm gonna guess that this isn't an example of the kind of content we can expect from the show. If it was, yeah, I would probably tune in. Shallow? Yes. But honest. I still have a season pass set for The Girls of Stare, even though the Mojo channel no longer exists. Just in case!

I fix them! Today I rebuilt a printer for a customer, and there was a very interesting sticker on the back. Give that thumbnail a click for the full effect. Warranty begins on April 28, 1989. This printer is over 20 years old! And still going strong. I know that's just unheard of with the printers of today, but the old stuff was all made of metal. Replace a couple consumable parts and it's as good as new. 

I saw District 9, and it was really good. Decent story. Some nice effects. The alien weapons and the exploding people that result from them were particularly fun. What it wasn't was revolutionary. I keep seeing posts and articles about how District 9 is going to change everything. Like this one from the website formerly Sci Fi Wire.

"10 ways District 9 will change sci-fi moviemaking forever"

For ever! Come on now. How many times have we been down this path? A 'relatively' small budget movie, with an unknown director and cast, gains a little traction and makes a few bucks and it's going to change everything. And then, a few months later, it really doesn't. The movie business is a slow and plodding methodical bureaucracy that views change with a very skeptical eye.

And if you're still unsure about that. News of how District 9 will change everything forever was quickly followed by the latest update on Will Smith in Hancock 2. Ooooh. The revolution, it has come.

Halleluiah, the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is lifting its voice in song again. This time it's 1945. The war is over and the Sanders Family has returned to "sing Dennis Sanders in" as the new pastor of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church! All of your favorite characters are back, singin', testifyin' and filling the air with bluegrass, folk and gospel tunes to set your hands clappin' and your feet tappin'.

Sarah¹ wrote a post recently about blogging, and flogging away at it. It, again, served as a reminder of just how neglected this site has been. I, again, thought to myself that I should do about that. But what to do? I commented on her post that I kind of lost the groove with the blogging when I hit a million words. That's just a whole lot of junk. But I do still like the idea of it, and I have a couple ideas for things I'd like to do here. ¹Yes, the first word on the new site is Sarah, so not everything has changed.