When Superman Returns opens June 30 in wide release, the film is also going to be shown on IMAX screens, with 20 minutes of the action converted into 3-D.
Are you excited about the new Superman movie?
Is anyone excited about a new Superman movie? Anywhere?
How? How is that possible? Does Superman seriously have fans in 2006 [...]

“Turning 31″ is a non-starter. I have nothing to say about it except that I’m pleased to have done it, considering the alternative. This is the last time for years that I’ll be a prime number, and while that’s something, it’s also the most interesting thing about the week. Jesus probably had a pretty interesting [...]

Thanks to all birthday well-wishers! Due to some weird e-thing, I just got 90% of today’s mail about ten minutes ago, so your love is overwhelming me at the moment.
The wife and I had a lovely, blessedly uneventful evening of fine dining and little else. Last year, this was a week full of birthday surprises [...]

My 31st birthday is tomorrow. Now you can act like you totally remembered, and I’ll never know the difference.
I forgot myself, actually. I started to make plans to go to a friend’s house and watch a movie, but kept thinking, “Wednesday….. Wednesday…….” It seems to me that I have heard of this problem, if only [...]

Google is toying with modifying their search page. The more they creep away from the idealistic grad student ethos that distinguished them, the more wary I become. We have seen this before; despite their best intentions, web sites with no visible means of income always start out clean and simple and end up breaking your [...]

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Texans Want Movie Filmed In Dallas, Are Imbeciles
…With shooting set to begin this summer, “Dallas” filmmakers are weighing proposals from Florida, Louisiana–and even Canada. “It just makes your hair stand on end,” says Janis Burkland of the Dallas Film Commission. While the TV show was filmed mainly on an L.A. soundstage, Dallas city officials argue [...]

We saw V For Vendetta last weekend. In an unforeseeable, precedent-setting turn of events, the book was better than the movie. I wish I could say that this disappointed me, but the truth is I’ve actually written quite a lot about this before and made peace with my thoughts on the matter. Also, as much [...]

If it’s been a week, it’s time for the site to break. The “Recently Changed” sections have not so much been “changed” as they have been “saved.”

I just realized that, last night, I ate a big ol’ salami sandwich after midnight on a Lenten Thursday. My doom is spelled out. If anyone sees the archbishop, just tell him that I didn’t eat any corned beef last week, so I hereby play my unused Get Out of Hell Free card this week [...]

After years of letting my education in math lapse, I learned a new equation yesterday while reading the news:
(“coup” + “boon”) – verbal dexterity / race = “You are fired” x speed of light
Every once in a great while, someone will suggest that I should get into radio. While this is not exactly what I’m [...]

If I download and install Picasa, will it all end with Google owning my soul somehow? A year from now, will I be unable to live without Picasa, with a bunch of tags on my photos that only Picasa reads, only to learn that Picasa now costs $40 a month and Google gave the pictures [...]

After yesterday’s thoughts, I guess it doesn’t surprise me that there are communities of people on the web rooting for the end of the world. If there are online communities for people who wish they could have sex with mermaids, wish really, really hard, then a Seventh Seal Openers chat room almost goes without saying. [...]

I assure you, I am well aware that the site was down for a couple of days, denying everyone the opportunity to check it and see I hadn’t updated it yet again. The bits and bytes and megs and migs that make site go have been uninstalled and reinstalled, the requisite number of goats have [...]

Did you ever think you’d live long enough to hear the president of the United States use the word “keeped”?
I didn’t. The first president I was able to vote for was a Rhodes scholar. A filthy, filthy Rhodes scholar.
“Keeped” came during this morning’s press conference. Yesterday there was a different kind of Q&A between the [...]

Is this anything?: I was listening to a story on the radio this morning about Condi Rice’s recent visit to Australia. While she was giving a speech there, a couple of students stood up and began shouting at her, calling her a war criminal and worse than the devil and all the other things you [...]

We’ve reached that wonderful six-year cycle on the calendar again.
During Lent, according to Catholic canon law,
The days of penitence to be observed under obligation through-out the Church are all Fridays and Ash Wednesday, that is to say the first days of “Grande Quaresima” (Great Lent), according to the diversity of the rite. Their substantial observance [...]

This weekend in beautiful St. Ann, MO, my wife and I passed a street by the name of Long Dr. While I was considering this, I looked up and noticed that there was a Chinese restaurant across the street called the Quik Wok. I would like to say, “The sight of a Quik Wok on [...]

Boston Archdiocese Collectively Cuts Off Nose
“Take That, Face!” Says Bishop
BOSTON – The Boston Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities said Friday it would stop providing adoption services because state law requires them to consider gays and lesbians as parents.
The social services arm of the Roman Catholic archdiocese has provided adoption services for the state for about two decades, [...]