Archive for December, 2008:

More evidence that Brett Ratner has ruined it for everyone. »

My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (find a random strip here) continues unabated and – grievously – unrequited. Here’s another recent great one:

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Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day Three: buy me a celebrity keepsake! »

Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery [...]

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Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day Two: remake me a movie! »

From Star Trek to Get Smart; from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Friday the 13th; from planned remakes of everything from The Karate Kid to Arthur to Romancing the Stone to A Nightmare on Elm Street, this past year has seen the completion or the launching of movie remakes at previously unimagined levels. [...]

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Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day One: regift me an Oscar! »

So here I am celebrating Burbanked’s third birthday and it occurs to me that my chances of getting an actual present for this occasion are mighty slim. Seriously, no one I know truly celebrates blog-birthdays outside of their own sites and each time I bring it up with friends and family I just get a [...]

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Today Burbanked is three years old. Zippity doo dah. »

Three years. That’s actually a longer commitment than I’ve given some jobs I’ve had, so I hope you’ll allow me a small amount of pride to slip through here.
Blogging’s gotten a bit tougher for me this year, primarily because of the new job I started this past March. It’s kept me extremely busy, and it’s [...]

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i can has santa mouse? »

Not much to add here, just: happy holidays, everybody!lotsa lolcats here

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Elves! Christmas elves! Hollywood Christmas elves! »

I pretty much got nothin’ in the way of actual movie news or insight this week, folks, so instead please enjoy Burbanked’s First Annual Christmas Elf Dance-Tacular:

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

(made at the ever-terrific JibJab; found via SpoutBlog)

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