How is it that I’ve gotten to the ripe-old blogging age of four without knowing about MOVIECLIPS.com? »

By the blue skin of Jake Sully’s monkey-cat tail, I had no idea this site existed. On movieclips.com, you can find great-quality, embed-able movie clips searchable by title, actor, genre and even setting and prop! Wow. Just…wow. I hate spending a boatload of time making my own clips, especially when YouTube then decides that I [...]

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A brief but telling glimpse into Burbanked’s childhood. »

Actual conversation in the Burbanked house tonight: I was watching the 1971 Dirty Harry on AMC, and the movie had reached the sequence in which the Scorpio killer is sending Harry running all over the city in order to drop the ransom money. Mrs. Burbanked enters the room and sits down.

MRS. B
What’s this?
ME
Dirty Harry.
MRS. B
Oh.

She’s [...]

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