Archive for August, 2008:

Spouting off about Telluride. »

Pal-O-Burbanked Chris Thilk of Spout sent me a nifty little blog widget that links to his site’s coverage of this year’s Telluride Film Festival.

You can see a scrolling list of movie posters below the Featured Article area on my homepage, and as the Spout site adds more content, the movies in the widget will link [...]

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To the Kenmore dishwasher packaging guy, with love from Burbanked. »

I recently purchased a brand new Kenmore dishwasher. I was extremely pleased and excited by the acquisition of this spiffy and sparkling stainless steel appliance and the wondrous sheen of protective blue plastic that covered it, ostensibly to protect it from nicks, scratches or dents.
Then I attempted to remove the blue plastic, and believe me [...]

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WB and the man in the red reboots. »

I just want to make sure I’ve got this straight: Just two years ago, Warner Bros. gave us Superman Returns, a reboot of a dead franchise. Now in 2010, according to a number of sites, the studio will reboot the franchise again because the last one “didn’t quite work as a film in the way [...]

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Hollywood romance movies and the infidelity double standard. »

On our recent vacation, the Mrs. and I visited a local library in search of movies to watch at the ends of our sun-soaked and beach-weary days. One title that we happened across was the 2004 weeper The Notebook, which I had read at the time of its release to be a great romantic movie, [...]

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Apologies to Internet Explorer users… »

UPDATE: the problem was actually due to a SiteMeter upgrade, and not my fault! Even better, it’s been resolved. I guess I just always take the guilt on myself. Boo hoo. If you’re reading this in Internet Explorer, you’re some kind of a sorcerer. Because my recent WordPress upgrade has crashed Burbanked when you try [...]

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