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I’ll miss you, despite everything. Good finale, and great premiere. Sigh. You will forever be, to me, like a hot girlfriend who is also insane.

I have always been loathe to let opportunities pass. My philosophy has always been that one should do as much as possible, and there’s usually always time for one more commitment. A person can always finish everything if he just sleeps a little less. It turns out that last statement is not true. Sadly, as [...]

Has anyone else noticed this new feature on Netflix that lets you watch movies directly via your computer? It arrived without much fanfare for something that could revolutionize home entertainment. A friend had forwarded me an article a few months back about how Netflix was planning this feature, and how you could opt into the [...]

So I wrote earlier this month that the new Transformers movie was doing nothing to arouse my inner geek, and I meant it. A friend insisted I should stop overanalyzing things like the probably quality of the story. I should just relax and just enjoy the summer blockbusteryness of a tentpole franchise destined for sequels. [...]

The odds of me finishing a My Name Is Earl spec before the deadline for the Disney Fellowship have gone from slim to sliver, as my planned week of time off from everything came crashing down around me today. I was being good about it, too. I got up early Sunday, trekked to Denny’s, and [...]

School is out, and so I have no tutoring. (I start back doing some summer stuff in a week, but for now, nothing.) Plus, there are no web jobs on my to-do list at the moment. Plus, invitations for the sketch troupe audition have been sent. I have to get ready for Sunday’s gathering, but [...]

My plans to dominate the universe through online sketch comedy progress steadily onward. At times I feel like my overall strategy is about as advanced as that of the Underpants Gnomes. (Step 1. Collect underpants. Step 2. ??? Step 3. Profit!) But then I calmly remind myself that I’ve done this whole sketch comedy thing [...]

I love Morgan Freeman. I think we all do. He’s sorta what everyone wants in a grandpa. But I’ve never understood some of his career choices. He was fantastic in Lean on Me, and earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Driving Miss Daisy. After those starring roles, he suddenly switched to a steady stream [...]

Dear DVD Manufacturer and Distributor: I enjoy watching movies on my computer. This morning, for example, I thought I’d have School of Rock playing in a small corner window while I work on a client’s web page. This sort of thing is why people have DVD players on their computer. Here’s what I don’t enjoy: [...]

I was once involved in writing and performing a sketch about a pair of nerds stuck at a trekkie convention. They got locked out of a room, and in order to open the door they decided to use the wave motion gun. The characters in the sketch repeated their choice several times. The Wave Motion [...]

When we were building our sketch comedy troupe back in Seattle, it took a while for everything to ramp up. Getting to the point of having a functional core group… well, let’s just say that not everyone was a good fit right from the beginning. Now that I’m starting an online troupe down here in [...]

I know I should give up on Scrubs. By now, my once-favorite has logged as many weak episodes as it’s had strong ones. Its special place in my heart as the first show for which I wrote a spec keeps me watching, but it doesn’t keep me from being embarrassed that I watched. That trend [...]