Author: Karel Kerezman

  • DVD stands for, er, movies in my living room!

    After months and years of wanting and waiting and whining, I finally busted out and bought a DVD player for the home-entertainment rack. It’s the Toshiba SD-2800, their budget-priced component deck. So far it’s been a reliable, beautiful piece of hardware.

    We also picked up the DVD titles Chicken Run, the Princess Bride special edition, the Shrek special edition and for the one anime title I was able to grab I chose the Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz special edition. Lots of great viewing yummy goodness, folks! It almost offsets the fact that I spent my weekend oblivious to the world.

    Aw, who am I kidding? I’m thrilled to finally have a “real live” DVD player. Crowding around the computer screen is not the way to enjoy a movie experience, folks, take it from me.

  • It’s my birthday and I’ll whine if I want to.

    Oh, and while we’re on the subject of DVDs, how about a copy of my DVD wishlist? Remember, there’s only four shopping days until my 30th birthday!

    • The Castle of Cagliostro
    • Ghost in the Shell
    • The Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV DVD Collection Box Set (this one’s kinda pricey)
    • Princess Mononoke
    • Metropolis (the new anime movie, not the original Fritz Lang film)
    • Monty Python’s Flying Circus Complete Set Vol. 3 (2-Pack)
    • Monty Python’s Flying Circus Complete Set Vol. 4 (2-Pack)

    That’ll do for starters, anyway. C’mon, c’mon, you don’t have much time left! Whip out that credit card and hop to it!

  • Blogsnob, what?

    One of the ongoing dilemmas facing anyone who maintains a personal site such as this one is the matter of exposure. On the one hand, you are pouring your heart and soul into something and really, really want everyone to see it, love it, and most importantly tell you how great you are for it.

    On the other hand, you have another five fingers. No, wait, what I meant to say is that on the other hand, if you’re an artistic-type you’re at least partly doing this because you simply need the creative outlet. You’re doing it for yourself, not for any other individual or group.

    That “see it love it” stuff is damned attractive, though.

    To make a long posting shorter, I’m now signed up with Blogsnob, an advertising service of sorts. You’ll note the “Blogsnob Link,” a scripted advert that pulls from the pool of thousands of other Blogsnob members and semi-randomly creates a link to that ‘blog page.

    When you get right down to it, the whole thing’s just a weird kind of ego-stroking circle-jerk (great mental image, that) but dammit, we have egos and they need stroking! Besides, there’s a good chance that by following the Blogsnob link you’ll end up reading stuff by someone much more entertaining than this little grey duck.
    Blogsnob

  • Great. Caught that damned cold.

    It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? I mean, Wendi has been sick for ages, her dad’s been hacking and snuffling and coughing; is it any wonder that I finally came down sick last night? Of course that didn’t keep me from this morning’s department-head meeting! No way sir.

    It might keep me strapped to the bed tonight and tomorrow, though. Bleah. I’m feeling more and more drained and useless as the hours toll slowly by.

    Time for some of that chicken ramen and lots of NyQuil, baby.

  • You say “Rosie,” I say “Rosey.”

    File this one under “News You Can’t Really Use,” but the Portland, OR radio station formerly known as Rosie 105 is now officially Rosey 105. In a few days the website at the new domain should come online, the logos are already being changed out, and so on.

    Mind you, I’ve known about this for some time now but only today did we get the official announcement and permission to say, “Yes, it’s changing.” Don’t ask for more info, you aren’t going to get it. Sorry.

  • What We Did On Our Tenth Anniversary

    Friday night was our tenth wedding anniversary, so we spent it in typical style: We went out to the movies, and to dinner. On the night in question the movies were “The Count of Monte Cristo” and the IMAX film “Amazon,” and dinner was steak at Outback Steakhouse. Yum.

    Because I’m rather compulsive about these things, at least during the early stages of having a spanking-new website, I wrote up reviews for the movies. I encourage you to check them out by visiting the new Films Media Review section of the site!

    Go ahead. I’ll wait. I’m not going anywhere. Go on. Do it. Please.