Sep 5
mwhybark commented on Foundations.
Br. Chuck, you are my kind of nerd, sir. I say this with true and sincere praise and a deep admiration for your sense of poetry.
Aug 19
mwhybark commented on Is This the End of Trashy Reality TV?.
"Is This the End of Trashy Reality TV?"
Not in a million years. This story IS, however, a surefire film script and I will bet money someone has already been paid to begin working on the script.
I used to cover reality TV for a genre-oriented entertainment magazine, like, five years ago or so, and let me tell you, If I couldn't come up with at least five felonies or misdemeanors reported for various assorted reality TV castmembers per month it was a slow cycle - AND someone was lying like crazy.
I would be VERY surprised if there were not other murders in the kitbags of those persons so desparate and fundamentally insane as to appear as a castmember in a reality TV show. Seriously, covering the blips and squawks of the bottom of the reality TV machine was like reading the police blotter, but sadly, not as written by Charles.
Not in a million years. This story IS, however, a surefire film script and I will bet money someone has already been paid to begin working on the script.
I used to cover reality TV for a genre-oriented entertainment magazine, like, five years ago or so, and let me tell you, If I couldn't come up with at least five felonies or misdemeanors reported for various assorted reality TV castmembers per month it was a slow cycle - AND someone was lying like crazy.
I would be VERY surprised if there were not other murders in the kitbags of those persons so desparate and fundamentally insane as to appear as a castmember in a reality TV show. Seriously, covering the blips and squawks of the bottom of the reality TV machine was like reading the police blotter, but sadly, not as written by Charles.
Aug 19
mwhybark commented on Now That's an Italian.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cucin…
Cucina de Santis, Sodo. Get thee hence. Not 100% sure that they have the exact thing but brother it is a place where sandwiches are made in large size by Italians. I seem to recall a giant sandwich on a crusty french-bread base with tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, ham, salami, and maybe beef or turkey, plus lettucey-or-maybe-green-and-red-bell-pepper crunchy veggies with an oil and vinegar dressing. Maybe some more dressing too.
Anyway, everything there is soooo good perhaps it won't matter if i have hallucinated this meal.
Cucina de Santis, Sodo. Get thee hence. Not 100% sure that they have the exact thing but brother it is a place where sandwiches are made in large size by Italians. I seem to recall a giant sandwich on a crusty french-bread base with tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, ham, salami, and maybe beef or turkey, plus lettucey-or-maybe-green-and-red-bell-pepper crunchy veggies with an oil and vinegar dressing. Maybe some more dressing too.
Anyway, everything there is soooo good perhaps it won't matter if i have hallucinated this meal.
Jun 19
mwhybark commented on This is Iran.
Night fell in Seattle ten years ago, Charles, as you know. Well, six months and nine years ago. Where is this place? Where is this place? It is where night falls.
May 20
mwhybark commented on The Old Earth.
Clearly, the fossil is that of a Fraggle. GOOGLE JIM HENSON
May 14
mwhybark commented on The Bullshit Imax Experience.
Oh, and re: IMAX sound - the new theaters do use the IMAX sound system, apparently, which involes some absurd number of channels, 32 or someting. The sound was the main thing that was reworked for the IMAX release of Watchmen, which is why I'm aware of this.
May 14
mwhybark commented on The Bullshit Imax Experience.
credit where it is due, Jonah. The graphic screen size comparison originates here:
http://www.lfexaminer.com/20081016.htm
and the website, www.lfexaminer.com, is a great place to learn about various, er, minuta of large-format projection.
http://www.lfexaminer.com/20081016.htm
and the website, www.lfexaminer.com, is a great place to learn about various, er, minuta of large-format projection.
May 13
mwhybark commented on Lost Season Finale Open Thread.
ok, so it's really just me talking to myself. Right. Surgeons with guns? Really? What is in the freaking box? argh. I'm kinda hatin'.
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Bullwinkles is the gay bar, if you really want to club it up, Dan.
Glad you found campus to beautiful; it's been damn near twenty years and I still dream of it. The old-school bar on Kirkwood is Nick's.
The gabled building housing a restaurant across the street from campus near the observatory (just around the corner from where Kirkwood runs up into campus) is the physical location where Hoagy Carmichael composed "Stardust." At the time it was called the Book Nook. Now I believe it to be a buffalo wings joint.