Archive for the 'Movies' Category
From Avon to Pyongyang; “So, what do you do?”
0 Comments Published by jakeallen October 10th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, travel, Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies, News Commentary, The Simple Life, Science/Tech, Home Life, metablogging, politics, economics, Kentucky, America, Morocco, life update on JakeFrom a small rural library in central Florida with a very worn keyboard (keeeeeysss stiiiicck) and 800 x 600 monitor (”the letters are so big!”), I read on Peter Krupa about the ArmsControlWonk, who has some good data and insight about North Korea’s FAILED nuke test Sunday night. The news I’ve been reading on my […]
Free TV Online from Jake Allen
0 Comments Published by jakeallen October 3rd, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's Musings, Movies, Science/Tech, metablogging, economics, video blog, music, TVMade some updates on my Free TV Online page. Added Democracy player and updated FOX as network non grata. Let me know if you want something added. As I move overseas, I put this together for myself more than others.
Madness!
Free TV online: a Jake Allen TV guide
0 Comments Published by jakeallen September 28th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies, The Simple Life, Science/Tech, metablogging, economics, America, video blog, musicThe updated page is on the site navigation header. This is the original post.
Being unemployed currently, I easily fill my time. I’ve had some recent conversations where I assert that our society is entering a goldern age of television. This is not my idea, but I think that the reason has to do with streams of revenue. […]
Unemployed: Day 3
0 Comments Published by jakeallen September 28th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies, The Simple Life, Humor, Home Life, video blog, musicLink to the top ten Weird Al videos.
Madness!
0 Comments Published by jakeallen September 24th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's Musings, Blandus' musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies, Humor, metablogging, America, video blog, music
First: I fixed the video in the post below. ROTFLOL
Second: By Blandus’ suggestion, I present the Desktop war!
Third: For the die harder Weird Al fans . . .
Über -Madness!
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2 Comments Published by jakeallen September 18th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies, Humor, metablogging, America, video blog, musicMADNESS!
Variety of things
1 Comment Published by jakeallen July 26th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, Movies, The Simple Life, metablogging, quotesI have lots of thoughts, good ones even, but am distracted from posting with things like going-to-Florida, working-to-pay-for-Florida, and seeing Lady in the Water. I basically agree with Blandus’ review, below.
My roommate asked me for some wisdom the other day. I told him, “Do not faut those without vision, for many use the full extent […]
Lady in the Water
2 Comments Published by Blandus July 24th, 2006 in Blandus' musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies, Religion, mythologyI don’t care what the critics say, I am a M. Night Shyamalan fan. What I like about Shyamalan’s work is that he tells stories – good ones, that hold my interest and say something interesting.
Like The Village, this is not really a horror movie. Shyamalan noted in an NPR interview that his movies are […]
X-Men is number two!
0 Comments Published by jakeallen May 27th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary, Movies“X-Men 3: The Last Stand” had the second-highest grossing single-day box office ever yesterday. I was a part of that. You’re welcome. Of the top 20 highest grossing days, they are all fantasy except for “The Passion of the Christ” at number 20. Mostly Star Wars, Marvel Comics, Harry Potter, Shrek, LOTR, and assorted varieties.
It […]
Movies that didn’t happen
0 Comments Published by jakeallen May 26th, 2006 in jake.allen.ockhamist.com, Jake's Musings, MoviesThis is my all-time favorite mockery of that movie. And the other one.
My “Movies that didn’t happen” page is still one of the most popular pages on this site, thanks to Google Image Search. Yes, I know that there’s an ontological problem with the title, thank you. In November of 2003, I stole half of […]
X-Men and Blandus
1 Comment Published by jakeallen May 26th, 2006 in Jake's Musings, Cultural Commentary, MoviesI’m going to go watch X-Men 3 tonight. W00T.
Also, Blandus, please use 1 or more categories when you post, not that we can see it when you do, ha! They create nice little category pages, like this. Cheers!
Madness!