I have to be honest.  I got nothin’ today.  It’s the end of a long week and I am completely spent. The best I can offer up is some movie news that I am very excited about.  Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.  This will be the first big [...]

Note:  I use an asterisk to show that there’s a corresponding footnote at the bottom of the post.  So make sure to scroll down for an extra-special treat!  Let’s try it out.* I can’t say enough good things about Harry Frankfurt’s postmodern treatise, On Bullshit, available in a limited edition from Princeton University Press.  The [...]

People keep asking me if I can share with them my secret. Keep in mind that I’m not into public service. I believe if you possess something worth having, it’s your right to sell that thing for a fair price.  That’s why I’m offering this opportunity to those who want it, need it, and are [...]

I watched AMC’s premiere of The Walking Dead Halloween night.  I enjoyed the hell out of it.  I could go on about why it worked so well and blah blah blah, yada yada.  But who the hell am I?  I’m a nobody, that’s who.  So I’ll just say I liked it and that’s that.  Strong [...]

And I thought, what better way of re-launching my blog than to sign up for Na-blo-bo-go-jo, or whatever the hell it’s called?  It sounds dirty to me.  But then everything sounds dirty to me, so that means nothing.  The important thing is that I now must post every day or I won’t be eligible to [...]

Man, ain’t that the truth. I think at this point I can back off my commitment to post each day.  It was initially just a way of prompting me to blog again.  I’ve been blogging pretty regularly, so I think I’m back in the swing of it.  If I keep making myself blog every day, [...]

Today is rough. I had little sleep the last two nights after a heavy night of barfing up greasy food on Saturday.  You didn’t need to know that and yet there it is.  The last thing I feel like doing is writing a post.  Yet here it is. Not enough? Here’s another one. I think [...]

Man, I really dig Obama.  It feels good to be able to say that about a President.  Obama actually feels like a President.  Or maybe a high school principal.  He has that “you kids stay out of trouble now” vibe.  George W. was more like that coach who teaches Driver’s Ed and then ends up [...]

Man, I am really enjoying the new FX series Justified.  It’s based loosely on an Elmore Leonard short story and it manages to actually feel like Leonard is writing it.  That’s probably because Leonard is producing it.  Moma Leonard didn’t raise no idgits. It’s reminding me why I loved reading Elmore Leonard so much.  I [...]

A new species of Monitor lizard was discovered! This is big news here at Brain Lizards.  The staff and I are very excited.  As long as he doesn’t come around asking for money like so many of my distant cousins.  This guy was over six feet long when they found him.  He was being carried [...]