Quiet Time.

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."

-- Milton

Special Affect

Imaginations

dry, rotting. Hearts now empty, 

left unsatisfied

X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The wondrous, mundane.

Though for sheer entertainment,

give it two thumbs up.

Yet I Cannot Look Away.

Topical Treatment.

Henson's 11.

I would watch this.

I'd even pay cinema prices.

Gran Torino.

Off the beaten slope,
a racist? Unconvincing.
(Perhaps that's the point.)

"The Machinist"

Somewhat predictable, although not unpleasantly so. 

Beautifully constructed, like watching a rat successfully negotiate a maze only to realise that it is, in fact, already dead.

Dreams Are Not Ideal.

And you certainly don't want them intruding on real life.

Excellent points, well made.

Jesus Made Me Miss My Bus.

True story. Ask me about it some time.

The Source Of Progress.

"Did you ride a horse to work today? I didn't. I'm sure plenty of people swore they would never ride in or operate a "horseless carriage"—and they never did! And then they died."

- John Siracusa

An Ideal Evolution

Over the years the "First-Person Shooter" has suffered the stifling limits of it's own stereotypes.

Enter the first-person painter.

This would, I believe, be the most creative variation on the genre I have ever seen.

“For every problem,

there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

-- H. L. Mencken

Fate.

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

-- Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Grammaculous.

Very occasionally I discover that something I have known - albeit intuitively - is true in a technical sense as well. Suffering the poor formal linguistic education quite typical of those in my genre, I have always regretified being left to my own devices to develop a crude intuitive comprehension using only teen schlock horror novels, comic books, and the subtitled complete works of Monty Python.

Returning to my original point, I am occasionally delighted to find strong technical support for a linguistic principle I had previously only understood intuitively. I present the Serial Comma.

Of course, before I get too enthusiastic, I must remind myself of my disdain for the respect and fixation by mere human beings on rule sets defined by other mere human beings. There's something belittling in being told to conform to a certain set of rules simply because "they" created them. But that's another topic.

On Comedy;

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."

-- GK Chesterton.

For the sake of balance,

I must also link to a ninja dog.

Hilarious.

Ninja Cat.

Seriously. Funniest cat-based video I've seen in ages.

Remeniscent of a particularly memorable (and genuinely unnerving) scene in El Orfanato.

"Rather than encouraging our children to study more math and science and become engineers, we're turning them into lawyers."

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051212_623922.htm

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Doesn't say a word about who put the "L" in it, though.

From the Wikipedia entry on "Life":

"This article is about life in general. "

"For other meanings of "life", see Life (disambiguation)."

Good to know they're keeping an open mind.