Disney’s $250 million epic John Carter earned a measly $30 domestic box office its first weekend. Would anyone like to know why? Because it’s name is John Carter. You can’t give a sci-fi fantasy epic a prosaic name like that. People assume that it’s ironic, that you’re not really doing a real epic, but some… Read More Why Names Matter: John Carter Tanks (Updated)
Over at Other McCain, Smitty draws on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to discuss the blunt truth that the collective has no soul, and indeed must destroy the souls of individuals in order to perpetuate itself. So that plane of pyramids, as the society reproduces, must be trained to halt their growth at the lowest, fleshy… Read More Maslow and the Hierarchies
…they suddenly blow up for no reason.
Including a picture taken by the missus.
Not only an actor, and a blues musician, but an author as well: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
I’m reading Althouse’s Fisking of Maher’s recent yammering crap about his uncomfortable role in the ongoing Limbaugh outrage kabuki, and the only thing I take away is that this tool has the nerve to cast himself as Carlin’s successor. Lemme explain something to you, Bill: You are not Carlin’s successor. You are not fit to… Read More Did Bill Maher Actually Compare Himself to George Carlin?
Went to see them at the Verizon Center in DC last night. The Arctic Monkeys opened, and they sounded good enough for me to want to check them out. The Black Keys, on the other hand, were off the chain. The kind of show that makes you feel like you saw something special, like Zeppelin… Read More If I Look Different, It’s Because the Black Keys Melted My Face
I mean, the guy’s abstinent. Guys aren’t abstinent, unless they’re ugly, losers, or closet gays. Right?
The child-rearing pendulum continues to swing away from the helicoptering, obsessive, everyone-gets-a-trophy approach. We’re now starting to see psychologists say “You know what? Pay less attention to your kid’s feelings…” For the record, I wrote something similar back in 2005: Our modern child-rearing techniques seem focused on the emotional lives of children. I think this… Read More Or Maybe Your Kid is Just Stupid…
As you may or may not know, I am not all that new to blogging. I’ve been doing it, off and on, since 2003. And yesterday I got the bug up my nose to collect my old dead Blogger blogs into some kind of dead tree format. Blogger has a partnership with an outfit called… Read More Blog Book Bleg
