So awesome. This artist figured out the exact dimension of a square of sod to be removed to look like a dead pixel in the most zoomed rez of Google Earth.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5191988/dead-pixel-in-google-earth

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not since uggs shoes were introduced has there been a more apt name assigned to something than "how to lose friends and alienate people." this drivel BARELY deserves the time it'll take me to tell you that it's SO bad it's not even worth leaving on to fool would-be robbers into thinking someone's home. leave it up to me and i'd have named it "how to lose fans and alienate moviegoers through the use of tired, cliche attempts to reduce metafiction to a palatable beige paste for the status quo," but i don't think there'd have been room on the poster.

take two of the greatest performers of their respective generations (jeff bridges and simon pegg), throw in the MILFtastic, ultra-engaging, and supremely talented gillian anderson, mix with calientita megan fox, and you figure it'll blow your socks off. you even figure that kirsten dunst can't bring it down. but GOTCHA! you weren't counting on the script, which was crafted with such attention to SUCKING that even 3 great actors and one bubbling cauldron of she-sex can't dredge it from the deep, dark pit of FAIL.

this movie is the story of a moderately talented brit scathe-writer (pegg) who catches the eye of a massively successful NYC magazine editor (bridges) who reminisces of his own time as a young, risk-taking trash-talker. in fact, the whole movie is based on the idea of pegg's character trying to use his writing to dismantle society's unhealthy obsession with celebrity, though he's so enthralled BY celebrities that he falls for one -- fox's up-and-coming young starlet. but he eventually realizes that in order to be successful, he ends up having to sell out and embrace the hyper-celebrity of his new glossy's world. but after selling out and getting successful, he realizes that he needs to remain true to himself. see how they did that? a movie about the misplaced sense of importance of celebrities, starring celebrities! and a sub-plot about how you have to be true to yourself! OMG, how original! how meta! oh, wait. no, i'm sorry. my mistake. no, actually it's none of those things, carry on.

and as if that weren't bad enough, we find ourselves (in the film) in two-thousand-and-fucking-nine NEW YORK CITY watching people actually, SERIOUSLY, try and craft humour out of the differences between brits and americans? REALLY? oh, i get it, "pissed" means "drunk," not "angry!" oh that pegg, what a cad! COMETHEFUCKON! am i that fucking STUPID!?!?!?!?

the laughs are academic (a dog chasing a ball out an open window ... OR NOT?!?!?!? i'm on the edge of my seat! yawwwn...), the plot is thinner than fox's dress (will the hero fall for the shallow sexiness of the young starlet or be swept off his feet by the uncontrollable power of the love of the struggling author, whom he secretly won over with his wry british charm? i can't wait to find out! i'm giggling with anticipation! zzz...), and the acting is nothing shy of PAINFUL, from ALL the stars, and yes, that includes bridges. i'm sorry, but he was being verrry un-dude.

here's the bottom line -- they tried to throw megan fox's ass at my face to get me focused on something other than the subject matter. and you know what i have to say about that? ZERO/TEN CLANKS, motherfucker.

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yes. yes, i think so.

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seen on drumm street, sf, ca. strangely, nowhere near a golf course.

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THIS is simple genius, though pretty much relegated to females only -- a decorative wooden bracelet that just so happens to fit around a coffee cup. no more cardboard sleeves used. LOVE.

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Kind of a neat little jaunt down memory lane. Makes me feel a bit old, actually. But not too old. No brain tumors!

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... w.html#ph0

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Dang!

They were setting up for this all weekend. We walked up there twice but the explosion was delayed until 6pm. This was around the corner from my loft, contextually.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... .DTL&tsp=1

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amazing. not a single word spoken HERE. i know a certain robot who will watch it thrice at least.

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there was so much good about this movie, and only very little bad.

first and foremost, i loved that it was ultra-violent. i'm not one to just jump on a flick cause it's got guns and shit, but when that's the core of the subject matter, it's important to me that it be played out right. in the thomas jane punisher movie, which was a little more dramatically cohesive, there wasn't enough ... punishment. this one was ALL pain, though, and i thought that was important.

obviously not a sequel, this movie did a good job of rebooting -- castle's history was laid out in flashback and dialogue, leaving the bulk of the film to be the task at hand.

i LOVED the feel of the punisher's lifestyle. i don't know how to describe it any better, but his dungeonesque home in the bowels of the subway tunnels, his weary and gruff manner, even his MREs seemed to give him a sense of all-business that i dug. i loved also how he purchased disposable weapons on the black market, essentially supporting the criminal underworld that he was at the same time bringing down. i thought that was very cool -- you gotta spend money to make money, the old saying goes, and that was a little bit of you gotta make crime to stop crime to me. a paradox applicable to all vigilantes from batman to castle and back again.

the supporting characters in the movie were intense, specifically jigsaw and his brother looney bin jim. now i don't know the mythos very much on this one, so i'd be interested to hear if a true fan felt the same as me, but i loved how crazy they both were in their own ways. jim was a complete fucking lunatic, literally shaking with insanity, while jigsaw was more joker style -- happy to cause mayhem on the grandest scale possible. and while we're on the subject of jigsaw ... HOLY SHIT, what a BRUTAL birth of a villain moment that was. jesus.

the punisher's cohorts, such as micro and soap, were interestingly the exact opposite of tough guys, and i found that to be not only a nice dichotomy in the character list, but it spoke a little deeper to me of the punisher's character. he had like ... normal friends or something.

i'd have to say that there were only two things i didn't like about this movie. one was the repeated attempts to give castle humanity in the most academic way -- showing him with a child. perhaps this is a recurring story point in the comics, as i said, i don't know about that, but it just seemed amateur and way too easy. as i noted above, his relationships with micro and soap did the job of giving him humanity just fine to me.

the other thing i didn't like, and this might be a real stinger here, was ray stevenson's body language. whenever he was seen from the chest up, he was all punisher -- muscle and hate, as nitzer ebb once said. but when you'd see him running or experiencing emotional distress or whatever, he just seemed too whirlybird or something. like he didn't have complete control of his muscles. i loved when he spoke and when he was mission active, but there were two specific scenes that i saw him just much less physical than i anticipate the "real" punisher to be.

a few other things bugged, sure (such as the gang "army" and the goddamn pointless freerunners), but overall this was a strong showing of a difficult character to realize. so i'm throwing down a 7/10 CLANKS! and recommending it as a great do-nothing-at-home action flick.

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the back way out of our apartment onto the deck has this too-tall step down -- almost twice the height of a normal step. that's fine for us because we know it's there, but we've had people over who've not been ready for it and almost taken a tumble. also, lungFamily member EP has a titanium hip and always has to hold onto the doorjamb to ease himself down when he goes out there. so i decided to make a step for it.



i know it looks crooked, but that's the building's fault. the deck and the sliding glass door frame are just a bit off-angled from one another, so the step is level to the deck, which unfortunately is not level to the door. doesn't matter from a functional perspective, though.

that 1x1 there between the step and the door frame is because the sliding glass door's frame, like most, overhangs the actual face of the building. so i put that in there to set the step out just enough from the frame to not feel short.

the underside is very well supported -- i have a 1x1 brace across the front face, and in the back, the legs (which you can actually see there) are made as 90-degree pieces, so they have both side and lateral support. plus all the screws into the door frame through the 1x1 spacer add strength.

and, as an added bonus and safety precaution, i stuck one of those stick-on LED lights underneath it, so if you reach up there and press it, you get a nice light shining out from under the stair, which i'll take a picture of at night and supplement this post further.

all in all, a great upgrade, and for less than $30 -- wood, hardware, stain, AND light.

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