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Saturday, November 01, 2003This is the seven month anniversary of the blog part of the website (the rest has been up far longer, but that's not important right now). So far I think it's gone well, though I've lost steam over the past few months. Really, seven months is the transistion point for most sites; you've taken the random musings and rants that have been rattling in your head the last few years and committed them to e-paper; now the challenge is to say something interesting without repeating yourself. Before blogs were mainstream, there were "E/N" (Everything/Nothing) sites. These were mostly rants, weird news (like fark.com), and rants about weird news. There were also parodies and such. The first incarnation of this site was very E/N-y. Most E/N sites relied on the strength of one or two personalities, and once they ran out of things to say they got old. Sharkey at Bad Ass Mofo, Matt at X-Entertainment, Low Tax at Something Awful... they started repeating themselves and became predictible. Like a mediocre sitcom they brought in new characters to carry them through the rough spots with varying degrees of success (The numerous BAMF ranters were hit-or-miss, Robert Berry was one of the funniest writers out there). So what am I trying to say? The next few months will be a challenge. Due to personal and professional reasons I might not update the site every day (though you probably figured this out already). When I do update it, I'll try to include actual content instead of a paragraph about how I got wasted and went to Toys R' Us or whatever. I'll also try to add more articles and media. And if all else fails, I'll add another ranter who would be a total jinx, or take a laptop to Hawaii where I'll find a tiki statue. Hijinks will ensue; it'll be great. posted by Nate on 12:19 AM link Tuesday, October 28, 2003Tonight's agenda included a half gallon of Canadian Club and the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle DVD. Cool flick; not as good as the first, but entertaining and fun. It definitely continued the sense of self-conscious humor from the first movie. The Crispin Glover stuff was sketchy, and I would have preferred Bill Murray as Bosley, but other than that I enjoyed it. Also, the Canadian Club came with a free travel size bottle of "Classic Twelve" whisky. The soundtrack was top notch, featuring The Prodigy and other late nineties trance groups (I haven't checked IMDB yet, but I swear I heard The Chemical Brothers). The action sequences were slightly over-reliant on CGI at times, but solid overall. And Demi Moore in that bikini... DAMN! Yeah she's almost old enough to be my mom, but I can sure understand why Kelso is Hitting It. By the way, was he even alive during the Seventies? How weird is it that Demi was actually his character's age in the seventies? I'm not sure if Ashton's even eligible for "That Seventies Conception." And twelve months ago who would have thought that Drew Barrymore would be the fourth hottest chick in this film? Sure there's Cammy Diaz, but a 40-something Demi Moore and the suddenly juvenated Lucy Liu, whom I never found attractive until she started decrapitating people with a katana in Tarantino movies? Jeez; that's almost as improbable as the Florida Marlins winning the World Series. (Oh, wait a minute...) STOP. Hammer Time. UPDATE: I am not implying that this was a good movie. It was a fun movie. The first Charlie's Angels flick had the same sense of humor but had-- what's the word?-- oh yeah, a plot. CA2's plot was was about as skimpy as Demi Moore's beach outfit, and it used scantily clad women to compensate. Culture War Analyst Me finds this an unwarranted, offensive glorification of our carnal desires for monetary profit and political control. However, Tuesday Night Drunken Me finds this pretty fricking cool. posted by Nate on 11:37 PM link Sunday, October 26, 2003German scientists have identified a compound in coffee that they think helps protect against colon cancer. In other news, I AM GOING TO LIVE FOREVER!!! posted by Nate on 4:38 AM link
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