Across the Bilayer

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A familiar meme with a familiar interpretation?

h/t Drugmonkey

Monday, November 23, 2009

Cool, we won an award...

Game of the Year took the Midrash award at the St. Louis International Film Festival earlier this month.

Two decent local reviews so far. Hopefully this bodes well for GOTY breaking out of MO and making a few more national festivals:

We'reMovieGeeks.com

Filmwell.org

Monday, October 05, 2009

We planted a butterfly garden for The Bug back in Spring, and I was skeptical when we were told the plants would be flourishing the same year. But they have with a vengeance. The Butterfly Bushes are going bonkers, each covering about 4 ft in diameter. Plenty of of bees and flutterbies, for sure, although I managed to miss a pair of monarchs with the camera.

Friday, September 18, 2009

My two degrees of George Clooney

If I achieve nothing else in this world, I will at least die knowing that I achieved that.

Monsieur Clooney is starring in a small, local St. Louis* indy film, and two of my acting buddies share a few lines with him (at the editor's discretion, of course).

These buddies are also in the far superior Oscar contender, Game of the Year, by St. Louis-based film company, 88MM Productions.

Consistent with the current economy and state of the academic establishment, my income is barely sufficient to clothe, shelter and feed my family. And so I am obliged to strut and fret many an hour upon the stage and before the camera in order to make up the shortfall. There's no money in it, of course, but all the pizza and Doritos I can eat and later regurgitate for The Grub back home in the den. It's a good arrangement, and the IRS can't take a cut out of it.

Anyway, I'm in Game of the Year, hence the Two Degrees of Clooney. That's only Four Degrees of Kevin Bacon, though, which isn't enough for fast-tracking into SAG.

Alas.

Game of the Year will be showing at a certain film festival in a certain city bearing a French name and abiding by a certain large body of water* (Nov 12-22, 2009). It will also be showing at the Archon 33 SF convention (Oct 204, 2009).

I'm not well-versed in regard to the ins and outs of the D&D world**, but I have it on good authority that, besides simply looking pretty awesome, the movie poster is also highly authentic and liable to elicit ecstatic whelps of enthusiasm from a certain section of the geekosphere.

* St. Louis is a small city occupying that vast area of wilderness between New York and LA. It is sometimes rudely referred to as Deep South Chicago. This is unacceptable. There are no good baseball teams in Chicago.

** No, seriously I'm not just saying that to try and be cool. I had to do a two month "boot camp" to learn, among other things, what a d8 is and what it's for.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Goldhill on CNN

In a CNN interview, David Goldhill summarizes the main themes of the article I posted on previously.

Money quote:

"I think we have to recognize that all politicians are limited by the 55% of Americans who are happy with their current health coverage. What I say to them is that if you're happy with your current health coverage, it's because you don't know what it's costing you. You don't know what it's costing you in terms of lost wage increases. I mean, I've run several companies, and the average cost to a company of insuring an American is now $12,000; that comes out of potential wages, that's a lot of money."

I think that he's saying we're happy like this fella is happy: