How cool is the iMac?

Back in September, I bought a brand new iMac. It cost over $3000, but I saved up all summer, and I really love it! Over the holiday weekend, I was testing its built in camera. I got my 11 year old nephew and his friend to mess around in front of the camera. They staged a mock fight, then went off. I decided to fiddle with iMovie, and within a half hour, it had music and sound effects. It was so easy to do. The kids liked it so much that they did a sequel, which we choreographed, and then I burned them a very professional looking DVD with the iDVD program. I've had a Mac since the very first one in 1984, but this one is in a whole different league. I love it!

Despotism, properly scheduled

From today's Washington Post, "Elections [in Pakistan] were due in January, but when emergency rule was imposed, government officials raised the possibility of postponing them by as much as a year. The Bush administration has called for the vote to move ahead, and on Thursday applauded Musharraf's announcement. 'We think it is a good thing that President Musharraf has clarified the election date for the Pakistani people,' White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement."

[C]larified the election date!!!! The Bush administration acts as if Musharraf's trashing of their constitution was a simple scheduling problem?! I haven't been doing a lot of posting recently, but this just demands it! Probably the next time Blackwater kills someone unprovoked, the will say "Blackwater cleared up local misunderstandings."

I'm back!!!!

Hey there, I've returned. It's been a long time; let me catch up. The country is moving very quickly to Orwell's future. I read in the Washington Post yesterday that the Iraq war is now the 2nd most expensive war in our history, adjusted for inflation! Just obscene.

Last month I bought a new iMac, and I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the most powerful version available, but since I purchased it on September 21, I'm not eligible to get a free upgrade to Leopard. I'll just have to buy it.

We're having our "Shocktober Classics" month at www.classic-horror.com. Each week we're reviewing films of four different directors. I wrote four reviews and a biography of Wes Crave for this event. Come and have a look-see!

I will be posting again soon :-)!

Aha! Now we've found it!

It took long enough, but the Bushies have finally found the answer... al-Qaeda is why we are in Iraq. I can't honestly believe that they are trying to play the old fear card AGAIN! How many times will they keep playing the same tune until we're driven absolutely crazy by it?!

"I'll show you what horror means!"

That's a quote from the 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Our website classic-horror.com just did a Jekyll and Hyde week. I wrote two reviews for it. Take a look and see!

It keeps getting worse....

From today's Washington Post... this ugly story just speaks for itself,

"Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago -- over the objections of their immediate supervisors -- by Bradley Schlozman, then the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Schlozman ordered supervisors to tell the women that they had performance problems or that the office was overstaffed. But one lawyer, Conor Dugan, told colleagues that the recent Bush appointee had confided that his real motive was to 'make room for some good Americans' in that high-impact office, according to four lawyers who said they heard the account from Dugan.

Bradley Schlozman is accused of favoring political conservatives in hiring decisions when he was acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division. He has since left the division.
Bradley Schlozman is accused of favoring political conservatives in hiring decisions when he was acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division. He has since left the division.

In another politically tinged conversation recounted by former colleagues, Schlozman asked a supervisor if a career lawyer who had voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a onetime political rival of President Bush, could still be trusted."

Can't they at least try to be subtle?

Come visit!

Our horror movie website, www.classic-horror.com comes online today with a fresh new look and lots of great new features. In a few days we are going to have a spread on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films. I've written two reviews for this feature (1931's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Frederic March, and 1989's Edge of Sanity starring Anthony Perkins). Come give it a look see!