I watched a TV show called “Star Trek – Beyond the Final Frontier” which was all about a recent Christies auction where Paramount were auctioning off their complete collection of props and sets and stuff for Star Trek, the Original Series, TNG, DS9 and Voyager. And I got to watch these…
I’ve been thinking about payment structures for motion pictures recently – trying to come up with a structure that works well for (relatively) cheap-ass productions, brings certainty to direct investors, doesn’t screw over your cast and crew. The thing I ended up like is partial deferments – this basically shakes…
Got into a .. discussion on irc today. It went much like this: Friend: Dude, I read your journal, hahaha, where you said that religious people were crazy, hahahaha, I’d be offended if I thought you were serious. JSR: I was serious. Friend: hahahha lollerskates JSR: No, really. Friend: 🙁 …and…
“Police put an undercover agent in a cell with Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui and asked him “Where is Osama bin Laden?”, a just-released Police Complaints Authority decision reveals. The agent was to “gather intelligence” with questions such as “Do you like Bin Laden?” and “Where is Osama bin Laden?” Manning…
In a comment to a previous posting, pepperbeast said: If I were a bible-believing sort of a person, I’d probably mention that God makes the sun rise on the good and the evil, and the rain fall on the just and the unjust. [I was going to reply to…
“Wizardry book in school library upsets some parents” I thought this was going to be a Harry Potter bitchfest, but it wasn’t. Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin, was checked out of West Haven’s Molloy Elementary School library by Cary Alonzo’s eight-year-old daughter. “Well, it…
On the opposite end of the scale that had Anna Nicole Smith at one end, was the actor Ian Richardson. That statement is true no matter what the scale was measuring – acting ability, class, style, breast size .. anything you like. Ian Richardson played the spectacularly awesome Sir Francis Urquhart in…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10423151 I was going to write a “Candle in the Wind” parody here, but it’s not really required. So long, Anna Nicole. We were laughing at you, not with you.…