My friend Brian found the trailer for the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory linked off Ain’t It Cool News the other day, and I haven’t been able to stop watching it since. You might want to do a couple shots before you watch it, maybe then it’ll make more sense.

They actually had a replacement iPod at the Apple store! It’s charging now and I’m going to reload my music tonight. I can’t even tell you how much better this made my week. And, as a special bonus, I had an $87 dividend check from my car insurance company waiting for me when I got ...

My iPod broke again this morning. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. (x1,000,000)

WARNING: I’m in a really foul mood right now, so perhaps when I wake up I’ll take some of this back. But probably not. You know, I’m not really one for the holidays most of the time, but this year I’ve been particularly Scroogetastic. I was sick all last week, which didn’t help. I scratched ...

For fans of Lost and the craptastic movie Executive Decision, celebrate the wonderful world of stock footage plane crashes with this shirt from one of the minds behind Television Without Pity. They also have a nice little messenger bag available with the same slogan.

It must be said: Dumbasses.

Due to ongoing illness and our christmas giveaway season at work (you can enter to win stuff we’re giving away here), posting is going to be very limited until about Christmas. Apologies all around.

So I’ve been having major computer issues…I won’t go into it at length, but things seem to be reasonably up and running at the moment, hopefully for good. I’m also battling a real nasty head cold on top of it. Suffice to say, this has been a long few days. Trip post to come when ...

The Good News: I am, in fact, alive. The Bad News: I am in Connecticut, having a Thanksgiving/Christmas Fiasco with my mom’s side of the family. Good News: Mark is here with me, helping me survive and not kill my relatives. Bad News: My mom seems to have made her annual holiday transformation into Martha ...

Driving around the last few days, I realized that there is one thing about Los Angeles that I don’t think I’ll ever get used to: Christmas lights on palm trees. It just…ain’t right.