I Want To Live Here

235 Van Buren in South Loop Chicago:


Good architecture is not dead! I demand someone buy me a condo here!

The Military Proves Lasers May Not Be Boring

Zap!

The footage I posted of an air-based laser clumsily cutting through a car engine pales in comparison to the above photo: a ground-based laser taking out a UAV. What's better, it used a "relatively low laser power" system.

Surely a nuclear engine of a carrier can support this level of defensive firepower...

A Confluence Of Unrelated Events

Our species lost a great actor this week: the incomparable Edward Woodward. The Wicker Man is one of the greatest suspence horror movies ever made, and I will leave it to one of Mr. Woodward's peers, the equally great Christopher Lee, to properly eulogize this great man:

The Wicker Man also starred Dracula actor Sir Christopher Lee, who described Woodward as “a good friend and a splendid actor”.

So say we all.

Edward Woodward's son Peter is a beloved Babylon 5 alumnus and a huge advocate of history education. Imagine my surprise when he appeared as a guest actor on Fringe this week.

I nearly cried as I jumped up and down in celebration of both him and his father.

Look sharp...

Inevitable

I can see y'all, maybe all of us, making the move in the near future, so when I saw this article there was little doubt it had to go up - A Windows User’s Crash Course In Switching To A Mac.

Sweet

Concept Art Offers Peek at Tim Burton’s Twisted Mind

Recently released images from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland adaptation reminded moviegoers that the quirky London-based director possesses one of the most extravagant visual vocabularies of any filmmaker now working.

Underscoring that fact, New York’s Museum of Modern Art kicks off a Tim Burton retrospective Nov. 22 with a collection of 700 art pieces produced by the goth maestro over the past three decades.

As a companion piece, the auteur behind fantastical spectacles Mars Attacks!, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman and a host of other morbidly twisted movies is publishing The Art of Tim Burton, a 434-page tome packed with drawings, doodles, paintings and evocative concept art dating back to Burton’s teen years in Burbank, California.

Can't. Stop. Giggling.

Area Man Passionate Defender Of
What He Imagines Constitution To Be

TV Reviews

Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 2 "Landing At Point Rain"

While the first season was spotty, the second season has been almost nothing but good episodes. Now they've started a 4-episode arc surrounding a second invasion of Geonosis, and "Landing At Point Rain" was the first of that arc. And it was everything you hoped the prequel movies would be and weren't: war!



Fringe Season 2 "Earthling"


Fox has stated that it will continue to support this show, even though its ratings have slipped. Fox should: last week's episode was one of the best hours of network television I've watched in years. Spooky, kooky, and ooky (this episode: disturbing ooky), the show is a nice balance of unrelenting strangeness, persistent creepiness, and periodic terror.

If I had a religion...

Biblical Boycott

Maine rejected a gay marriage law. If Christian values are so important to them, then let's see it through:

Boycott Maine lobsters

After all, the Bible clearly states:

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Did Jesus eat lobster? I don't think so.

"Forbear To Judge, For We Are Sinners All"

Only a Shakespeare quote would be appropriate for the following:

The anti-gay marriage débutante-turned-Christian activist Carrie Prejean dropped her lawsuit against Miss America after they showed her a video she made of her masturbating...happily...for Jesus, I presume.

Carrie Showing What God And Silicone Gave Her

Please note that her parents, who she alleged taught her the Christian value of marriage, are divorced; and her mother accused her father of liking cock.

These Christians and their demons...

I love a good Venn diagram.

I Now Have No Balls...

"Suck it Jesus!"

...because I laughed them off watching Kathy Griffin's "Balls of Steel" on Bravo. You have to watch it: it's some seriously funny shit. And, Kathy (re)admits she's an atheist.

I laughed so hard I choked.

Makes sense.

SEC Replay Official Overturns
'Roe v. Wade'
TUSCALOOSA, AL—A Southeastern Conference replay official conducting a video review of a sideline catch during the Alabama-Tennessee game Saturday overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling... you guess it right off: The Onion.

Serious geekdom

HOO-RAY!

Robert Zemeckis is going to make a sequel to what is arguably his best film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?!