So, I recently watched the unaired pilot for a show called Heat Vision and Jack. It’s about a astronaut named Jack Austin (Played by Jack Black, the singing half of Tenacious D) whose spacecraft passes too close to the sun, and as a result now becomes superhumanly intelligent whenever…
A kind friend who works for Weta Digital has just offered me a ticket to the cast and crew pre-release screening of The Two Towers, on the 16th of this month. Life is good!…
So, work xmas do last friday – was on Waiheke Island, at a vinyard. A very good vinyard. With a very very good, very very expensive merlot. Which I consumed a couple of bottles of. Stony Ridge wines. Pay attention. Buy them, and you will be happy. Waiheke is really very…
And so, Nov 1, I make a start on my Novel. I plan to have it finished for the end of the month. This is, of course, for http://www.nanowrimo.org/, The International Novel Writing Month. I am devoting this evening to planning it, and the rest of the…
Item: My secret shame – I recently re-watched The Phantom Menace (this being viewing #2, viewing #1 was at 12:05am on the release day) and .. it didn’t suck as much. There were still some things that irritated me. They were, in order, (1) Jar Jar Binks. No matter how…
So, unexpected message from Karen yesterday, at around 5.30 or so, saying “Hey, don’t forget, go see Debra at 7.00pm tonight!” which I was able to do, but (drat!) couldn’t bring Annette along. I caught up with some old friends, with whom I thought there might…
Two heavy things today: (1) I got a haircut. A serious haircut. I thought my last haircut was serious when I went from having hair half-way down my back to moderately short, but this time I’ve gone to a number two all over, which basically means my head is…
Someone sent me the following deconstruction of your basic boy band/smoove guy love song: TITLE OF THE SONG Declaration of my feelings for you Elaboration on those feelings Description of how long these feelings have existed Belief that no one else could feel the same as I Reminiscence of…