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Posted on 05.07.08 by Widge @ 2:45 pm
Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 04.21.08 by Widge @ 1:11 pm
Sitting at the gate awaiting my flight. On the airport wireless because…well, I’m me. And over the PA I hear (paraphrased) “Folks, I know there’s a lot of people in the gate area waiting for standby seats. And I want to let you know that the chances are slim to none that that’s gonna happen. The Pope was in town this weekend and everybody came in to see him and now they’re trying to get home again. Your own hope is that there are people who checked in at home on their computers and we don’t know if they’re actually here at the airport or not. So as Jesse Jackson says, ‘Keep hope alive!’” As a P.S. to the coda, there was a booth at Comic-Con that was selling Exorcism Kits. “The Pope needs your help!” Priceless. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 04.13.08 by Widge @ 4:20 am
Cleaning out file folders from the old desk. Found these.
Yes, cassette labels created for my old band, The Frame. Copyright 1992, 1994. Life was so much…something then. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 04.08.08 by Widge @ 12:10 am
Um…a dude named Gorbichov gave me a thumbs down because I’m NOT Kevin Smith? WTF is that about? Did I portray myself as Kevin Smith and he was disappointed that I lied to him? No! Or is it just he’s on a mission to thumbs down everyone who ISN’T Kevin Smith? Pretty rude, man. Pret-ty rude. You’re not the only disappointed that I’m not Kevin Smith. I’m pretty disappointed about it myself. I’m on StumbleUpon here, BTW. Friend me if you’re on it. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 03.27.08 by Widge @ 9:59 pm
So I started responding to a post over at Sore Eyes regarding George Clooney as the Last Movie Star and then I realized it would be rude to leave a small essay as a comment, so here goes. Go read that first. I agree that Mr. Smith has been in some eminently forgettable films. I AM LEGEND and I ROBOT spring to mind. And I think that among his action flicks, ID4 will probably be remembered as fondly as any other Irwin Allen film or perhaps as the 90s version of something like DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. But, in Smith’s defense, while he knows that the cash comes from his stint as Action Guy, he does still strive for things like ALI and PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS. He did work for Redford in BAGGER VANCE and although Schepisi might have a warm spot in only my heart for ROXANNE, Smith was in his version of SIX DEGREES. But Clooney’s box office has come from mainly the OCEAN’s series (which was driven by star power) and *cough* BATMAN. So yeah, my question would be what kind of deal does Clooney have so that he can be in a string of films that don’t have huge box office gains and yet still basically pick and choose whatever he wants. Maybe he makes that much money off of ER reruns? I have no idea. I wanted to say it’s because the small films he’s in still turn a profit because they *are* small, and maybe that’s the case. SOLARIS underperformed given its budget. But SYRIANA almost doubled its production budget in worldwide box office, THREE KINGS made a profit worldwide, PEACEMAKER doubled its budget worldwide, and the rest…well, Box Office Mojo doesn’t have budgets listed for them and I’m too lazy to go hunt them up right now. And I’m sure Clooney is who sold the tickets to those. Clooney does have star power. And I think he’s an excellent actor. Even though I’m one of the five people on Earth who didn’t enjoy O BROTHER, it’s still the film in which (among his that I’ve seen anyway) he does the most acting and isn’t playing his usual Clooney on-screen persona. I’m not quite sure if I even made a point in here. And I don’t feel like formatting this properly. Just had to put this somewhere. And oh, that’s what this is for, isn’t it? Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 02.20.08 by Widge @ 4:10 am
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Posted on 02.16.08 by Widge @ 9:29 pm
Okay, so I’ve been listening to a bunch of the great old radio shows like Lights Out and Inner Sanctum (Lights Out has one of the best taglines in history: “It…is…later…than…you…think…”). Some of them are cheesy. Some of them aren’t even remotely scary. But they’re fascinating nonetheless. But having heard quite a few of them, I’m tempted to think that surely some version of this scenario must have figured into one of them… “Five astronauts…one space station…one gun.” Of course, make each astronaut from a different country and then that sounds like one of their heavyhanded message productions that would happen from time to time. I would love to recreate those same productions with a new cast, but using the same classic foley techniques. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 02.15.08 by Widge @ 10:59 pm
I love this. First of all, it’s exactly the sentiment I was trying to get across in my poem, “The Stygian Depths of You and I and All.” Secondly, “Last Week’s Potatoes” is tremendous name for a band. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 02.02.08 by Widge @ 5:38 am
I can’t stop listening to “Queen B” from Puscifer’s V is for Vagina album. I have no idea why. It’s just great music to work by, I guess. This music video is pretty…well, it’s what you would expect from Maynard, I think. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 01.23.08 by Widge @ 8:11 pm
Westboro Baptist Church is going to picket Heath Ledger’s funeral. He’s dead, assholes. Why not see to the living, like that guy Jesus would have wanted you to do? Jesus. You might have heard of the guy. And folks, remember, if you don’t believe in their God, he will show his unending love for you by boiling you in hell for all eternity. Filed under: General BS
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John Robinson is a writer of prose, poetry and comics who also writes under
the pseudonym of Widgett Walls.
This is my latest book. Short stories written especially for you, or at least someone who reminded me a lot of you at the time.
