Monthly Archives: July 2007

A Wondrous Encounter…

In a fitting annex to my earlier post on the joys of HD video, it’s just been announced that Steven Spielberg’s splendid “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is to be released on DVD on November 13. It’s hard to … Continue reading

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On Hiatus

Unless you’re [quite understandably] hiding in a cave you may have heard that a worthless, talentless, ungrateful, coke-snorting has-been with whose name I would never sully these pages got rightfully arrested yesterday for 1st-degree stupidity and terminal ignorance? Now the … Continue reading

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HD-DVD…DOA?

With an albeit tenuous connection to yesterday’s post, news is emerging of a major development in the world of Hi-Def media: Blockbuster today announced it will rent only Blu Ray-format disks in its 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def … Continue reading

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Big Secret? She was once a guy…

Question: What do you do when your entire concept already hit rock bottom and left a dent?Answer?: Buy the baddest John Deere excavator on the planet and start digging, naturally! Just in case you were endearingly delusional enough to think … Continue reading

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Oh, F***….orget It !

Because, of course, they have nothing more pressing to attend to, Congress is now making moves to repeal the major Networks’ recent court victory over the FCC’s “fleeting expletive” ruling. A week after a Senate panel rejected one anal attempt … Continue reading

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…Villainy

A vast amount of money, time and intellect has been invested in researching the possibility that we may not be alone in the blackness of space, and whether in fact other life-forms have been monitoring events on this curious little … Continue reading

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