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Fringecast 24

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

S’marvelous. S’wonderful. S’Fringecast. That is right, gentle and wrinkled people of warm and cold climes. Fringecast has returned. Amazingly, we’ve noticed nearly a 100% drop in listenership (is that a word?) since we stopped airing Fringecast nearly a year ago. Seriously, where’s the love? Did you abandon us? Sadly, that drop corresponds to just about [...]

Don’t Be Railroaded

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s hard to believe people still use railroads, much less get injured by them. I mean, it’s 2007. Where are our rocket packs and bubble domes and atomized reconstructive transportation beaming technology? I thought railroads went out of fashion when Atlas Shrugged dropped off the New York Times’ Best Seller list, but apparently it’s still [...]

Casino Royale

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 6, 2006 ⋅ 5 comments

The obvious thing about the new Bond is he’s new. Daniel Craig is the wounded and damaged Bond just beginning his service to the Queen, amassing both his kills required for double-O status in a brutal and icing performance that will have viewers wondering just who this fellow is who relies not on quips and [...]

The Big Turkey

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 23, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s been one of those holidays. It started two months ago, when I planned out a strategic, secretive visit to New York to visit my girlfriend Emily–a secret which was to have been a surprise, but due to my historically bad executive qualities, became quite a well-known thing in the Emily circle of knowledge. I [...]

Those Big Jerks

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 17, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Apparently, there’s a war on. And this is a new thing in the sense that different people who have never before been killed…are being killed. This has brought loads of condemnation upon the killers, though I must note, a lot fewer people have been killed in this particular war-in-progress than the last major conflict started [...]

The Fourth of Beerdependence

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 6, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

The 4th was pretty much what I expected, that is to say it was unexpectedly peaceful and low-key, despite the feelings holidays like the 4th engender in me. I’m still the kind of person who likes to wake up early on holidays just because they are rare enough to be worth less sleep. I hadn’t [...]

Waking Up To Grey

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 3, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

I did the usually foolhardy thing and stayed up last night until around 4am watching movies. Recently we joined Blockbuster for their free two week mail-in DVD program, which is essentially the evil twin of Netflix, even though Netflix is already the evil twin of self-control; you never seem to reach the end of your [...]

Regional Division of Hell

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 8, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

I spent part of the morning at one of the regional branch offices of Hell, which of course was incorporated sometime back in the early 80′s. Well, technically, it was a separate company owned by Hell. No, not the airport. Yes, I’m referring to the DMV, or Devil’s Motor Vendor, voted 2nd Most Likely Place [...]

Mr. Slick’s

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 31, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

Is there any reason you can think of to name your automobile repair shop Mr. Slick’s? Neither can I. And yet a place right here in Culver City exists with that very name. And apparently is doing quite well, based on the number of referrals to the place I’ve heard since arriving. I myself have [...]

Memorial Day Adventures

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

If necessity is the mother of invention, who, may I ask, is the father? He’s got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do. My Memorial Day weekend was a typical raucous affair, with the usual piling on of events in the normal, explosive method. I flew to Fort Worth, Texas to spend time with my two [...]

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