Mon, June 30

After WALL-E

If you've seen WALL-E, you may enjoy some of these reviews, articles, and interviews about it. If not, avoid them until after! (Read more.)

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Fri, June 27

WALL-E

A brief and spoiler-free take on my first of many WALL-E viewings. (In short: it's a very, very good movie.) (Read more.)

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Thu, June 26

Warehouse Escape—3:43 PM

What follows is decidedly unfinished. It's something I began toying with a few weeks ago, just to try out a few concepts. I probably won't do much more with it – just apply what I've learned to something else. I decided I'd better go ahead and post it today because even though it isn't much, starting tomorrow I'll likely be cursing myself that I haven't done a lot more.

What Should Happen whenever I have an idea or even an inkling of something that might be interesting to work on is I should begin immediately, throwing rough elements together, and just see how far I get with it.

What Does Happen is I start thinking about it and realize it'll take a lot of effort to get the result I want, and it might involve having to set up some unrelated thing I don't really want to fool with right now, so I'll just watch TV for a while instead.

This is the textbook definition of Ze Frank's brain crack concept, and if real crack is anywhere near as tough a habit to kick, I have a new sympathy for those people.

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Mon, June 23

Baldwin/Fey All the Way!—10:07 AM

In a desperate attempt to retain viewers, NBC Universal has launched an "Emmy campaign" in which people can go online to order free buttons to support their favorite shows in the upcoming Emmys, pretending that actual people vote for Emmys rather than the cabal of subterranean plutocrats who really run this country.

The Nominate '08 site allows you to choose which buttons you receive, but I only chose The Office and 30 Rock (I didn't even see the one for Life) and I received all the buttons in the mail. I suppose it's less expensive to simply prepackage the whole set and ship it to everyone – the order form is just a quick way for NBC to gauge which shows have the most fan support.

Fine by me. I'll happily show my support for House and Conan. But what am I supposed to do with these three pieces of shit?

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Whenever anyone says “I can’t,” it makes me wish he’d get stung to death by about ten thousand bees. When he says “I’ll try,” five thousand bees. (“I can,” one bee.)