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Harry Harrison’s own thoughts on how they mangled his book, “Make Room, Make Room!”, to make Soylent Green. It turns out that major plot points like the cannibal-crackers and furniture-girls weren’t even in the original story, and Charlton Heston himself thought that “the whole payoff on the cannibalism element lacked impact.” It was almost naively […]
As I mobile blogged earlier, one of our projects in Multimedia Typography class is to re-execute the opening sequence of a movie using principles of modern motion typography. I chose Soylent Green, that famous sci-fi B-flick directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston and an old, post-McCarthyist, terminally ill Edward G. Robinson. I felt at […]
I hear some people tried to shut down DC last week. Not only did they fail to block my commute, but they’ve managed to completely un-convince me that their causes and goals hold any legitimacy or value whatsoever. What I see, and what I will tell my 2.75 year old daughter when she gets older, […]
No more rummaging around the shoeboxes for that old DOS 6.2 floppy to boot up a freshly formatted hard drive: FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. “People have … been re-writing basic OS code for so long that all of the technology that constituted an “operating system” in the […]
Funny; every year that I read about the annual miracle of St. Januarius’ liquifying blood, the press spells it different. Last year, it was “Gennarius.” I say “Januarius.” Is that really a saint’s preserved blood turning to liquid in the vial? And if it truly is, what does this “miracle” do to nourish and enrich […]
I woke up too late to reach worship at Valerie’s church this morning, so I hopped across Inner Harbor to scope out the service at Old Otterbein, the oldest church in Baltimore. It was my first Methodist service, though the format was largely similar to that of most conservative Protestant services I’d attended at other […]
Text message received this morning: “I’d like to comment with regards to the PBMA, people keep saying that the PBMA is cult … no its NOT!” No further theological insight was offered. Not that any theological insight into a cult like the PBMA is really feasible. Cult: “a group of people, which claiming to be […]
Sometimes, people arrive at my page by an inane search pattern and think I’m some sort of Pinoy showbiz tsismis columnist. That’s when I get comments like this. I don’t know if he thinks I’m Kris Aquino or if he’s just plain incoherent. Quite entertaining, in any case.
Society’s standards of decency are there for a reason, and when radio shock jocks find it amusing to broadcast live public sex from a Catholic Church just for ratings, then something is going wrong. “It’s the work of people so jaded they think that intellectual bravery is defined not by the traditions you honor, but […]
Remember the NIPR.mil referrals that popped up in my (and other people’s) referrals? I got a tip from okcalvin pointing to the “Unclassified but Sensitive Internet Protocol Network.” Hooray, USA.