May
2004
May 1
• News: Upcoming blog schedule,
terrible new movies, drunk drivers deserve much harsher punishment.
• Essay: Darwinian death: wood
chipper idiot and Pat Tillman.
May 3
• News: High temperatures and
exercise with Malaya, more black comedy from the insanity that is North
Korea,
• Essay: Cripple fight: Godsend vs.
Envy, BlogMaverick discussion, upcoming summer movie discussion and flop
predictions.
May
5
• News: Sudden and mysterious
cable modem difficulties, trash TV, sexual politics and ugly realities
on long, co-ed space missions.
• Essay: The Day After Tomorrow
gets blackballed by the president's men.
May
7
• News: The cable modem
continues to not make sense, Pat Tillman discussed again, Ted Rall's
controversial cartoon about him, and Pat's amazingly un-stereotypical
funereal.
• Essay: Van Helsing opening soon,
my run down of the best sources for movie trailers and previews, with
reviews of the trailers, Matrix 2 improved greatly in a recent viewing.
May
9
• News: Filipino event and
outsiderdom, most popular baby names in the US, Sasser worm author
arrested and treated with kid gloves.
• Essay: Van Helsing review and
discussion.
May
11
• News: Mother's Day stuff
with Malaya's mom, exercise and painful shin splints, thwarted desires
to talk spoilery stuff about my novel, my utter confusion over the fun
people find in dancing and deafening music.
• Essay: The mystery of Beatallica,
Velvet Revolver fires online.
May
13
• News: I'm never satisfied by
my writing, bemusement at the shock over US troops turning out to be
torturing monsters, annoyance at perfunctory thanks and apologies and
phone support speeches, my old working jokes and chatter,
• Essay: Drod, gaming problems and
issues in general Warcraft 2, and more.
May
15
• News: Troy anticipation,
Shrek 2 comments, other movies I'm looking forward to this summer, The
Incredibles trailer, the disaster that is Shark Tale, gossip says
Catwoman trailers pulled -- gossip lies.
• Essay: Reader mails: Troy's
success rate, browsing with tabs or not, Underworld vs. Van Helsing, My
First Time and trash TV archetypes.
May
17
• News: Potting plants with
help from the kitties, Troy financial success or not, experts are
surprised people are surprised by torture, since war always brings it
out.
• Essay: Troy review and
discussion.
May
19
• News: Newfound determination
to write a ton of fiction, lame grammatical test, spring carpet cleaning
time, ghostbusters suit for sale on eBay, the USDA continues to ignore
Mad Cow disease.
• Essay: Record-setting 24 hour
treadathlon, my running struggles and exercise alternatives.
May
21
• News: My first anniversary
of meeting Malaya, reader
emails on that grammatical test from last time,
• Essay: Shrek 2 review/discussion.
May
23
• News: Beatallica growing on
me, laughable photographic comparison of Chili's vs. Claim Jumper
sandwiches, now that's a knife.
• Essay: Movie discussion:
Fahrenheit 9/11 wins the Cannes top prize, the next Crouching Tiger
movie is...?
May
25
• News: Shrek 2 financial
followup, Jinxie deep in her sprawling phase, and being cute as well.
• Essay: Painful accident photos
with car discussion, driving discussion, and pedestrian safety lecture.
May
27
• News: Back patio and plants
photos and talk.
• Essay: News on Al Quida's boost
courtesy of the Iraqi war, the Ashcroft cries wolf again, the UK is
almost fatter than the US, Mtv refuses Supersize Me ads, real science
about The Day After Tomorrow.
May
29
• News: Friday's events,
including vacuuming early in the morning, and my huge backlog of reviews
to be written/posted, another Garfield the Movie clip destroys brain
cells.
• Essay: The Day After Tomorrow
review and discussion.
May
31
• News: Failing email
discussion and gripe-fest, holiday confusion, my lonely Saturday without
Malaya, anime porn, The Lovely Bones, horrible amounts of salt in pretty
much everything, and more fat foreigners, this time in Asia.
• Essay: The Day After Tomorrow
discussed again, with quotes from other, really bad reviews.
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