Okay, so now I’m back over there

Switching back over to the Tumblr blog. WordPress was just too much of a pain – if I can swing it, I’ll enable comments over there (but don’t hold your breath).
http://wharper.tumblr.com/

The Mirror on Hulu

NBC’s Hulu service (the online distribution venue that they opted to put their faith in rather than Apple’s iTunes Store) is now up and running, and it looks pretty good. Yes, there are some commercials to wade through, but nobody’s going to lament that the content is on here rather than on YouTube.

now Twittering

well, or at least trying to. We’ll see if this takes hold.
http://twitter.com/wharper

“Simply the Finest”

“He had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he used to slice it so thin that it would liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system.”

Your Feature Presentation

I’m still amazed that Yoni managed to go see Eli Roth present Zapped! with Scott Baio.
Somehow I’m guessing that they didn’t manage to show this sequence before the movie started, sadly.

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This is the stuff of my childhood.

Bone Idol

I think that this t-shirt would make for a spectacular co-rec sports team uniform.

ten years ago tonight

It was an entire decade ago that we went out on our first date.
A few weeks previous, without any romantic intent of our own, we went to see a movie that actually tried very hard to be romantic in its own way – A Life Less Ordinary, Danny Boyle’s misguided follow-up to Trainspotting.  That movie [...]

The Final Ball, 2007

As Papelbon threw up his hat in celebration, turning his Gomer Pyle/Full Metal Jacket laser-beam-death-eyes stare into the crazy cartoon-eyed scream of celebration, what happened to the ball?

one discouraging fortune (accompanied by an accurate one, as well)

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Most are usually benign, but this was Patty’s from tonight’s dinner as we watched the start of the Red Sox game.