cyberhobo

Author: cyberhobo

  • hobolog makeover

    I’ve added a few ideas for the hobolog that have been rattling around in my head for a while now. Something new to look at, a simplified post viewer on the right, a style-switcher so you can go back to the old look if you like. Please let me know if anything isn’t working properly.

  • Movie: The Shape of Things

    This movie ambitiously portrays an artist wielding the power of truth as a sculpting tool. It’s clearly an adaptation of a stage play, and has both gems and stinkers in the dialogue. It’s a thought-provoking film, but takes a pretty dismal view of people in general. Even the artist, the only one who sees the…

  • Movie: Matchstick Men

    This movie must have been inspired by the last great con-artist movie I saw, Nine Queens. This one, however, sports an obsessive-compulsive con man character – a stroke of genius. Nicholas Cage does such a good job with it, I started to twitch and fidget in sympathy. It makes an interesting story into an absolute…

  • Comments are back

    Thanks to some good tips from the Radical Wacko, the hobolog is now armed with spam-fighting software that should post real comments immediately, while suppressing and doing battle with spam comments.

  • Movie: Shall We Dance? (American version)

    This was a good movie to catch at the $2 matinee with my dad and Sarah, who left the theater waltzing. It’s goofy, but fun. If you’re a ballroom dancer, you probably won’t be able to help enjoying yourself. It also manages to do a little real exploration of how personal change might affect an…

  • Movie: The Bourne Identity

    Good, for a Hollywood action movie. It’s not nearly as philosophical as it could be with the story setup, but the theme of self-exploration leading to shock and denial is interesting enough to give power to the standard evil government project coverup plot.

  • Safe World

    Today I heard President Bush say on the radio, “A free Iraq will make the world safe.” The number of U.S. troops who have died in combat topped 1,000 today.

  • WILD ANIMUS preview

    This excerpt from Rich Shapero’s new book was just released, if you’re curious to read a little before Rich’s appearance here tomorrow.

  • Movie: Frida

    This is one of the better artist portrait films I’ve seen. It incorporates her accident, physical problems, lovers, husband, politics, and especially her art into a very real-feeling world. Ann has read a book about Frida, and from what she’s told me the movie is fairly accurate, but a little romanticized. No matter, it’s an…

  • Breckenridge

    The lesson of our first day on the ski slopes this year is this: if you don’t know where sniff out the deals you will pay out the nose. I remembered that a local grocery chain sells lift tickets, and this saved us $28 on the ski-base price of $118 for two day passes. And…