Archive for August, 2008

81 - “Touch of Evil”

100 Movies Project: August 26th, 2008

Touch of Evil on IMDb
Synopsis: Charlton Heston and Orson Welles play “Good Cop, Bad Cop.”
Pros: Wow, I was watching this and got so sucked into it that 45 minutes went like *snaps fingers* that. It was very riveting, and very well done.
Cons: The reefer boys were…interesting. Very old skool.
Verdict: Yeah, this was a pretty sweet [...]

78 - “Some Like It Hot”

100 Movies Project: August 23rd, 2008

Some Like It Hot on IMDb
Synopsis: Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress in women’s clothing and hang around with Marilyn Monroe.
Pros: Old school mafia stuff is awesome. Marilyn Monroe was hot. There were some pretty funny parts, that’s for sure.
Cons: OK, there’s one scene where something unexpected begins to happen to someone, and they don’t [...]

ComicPress Manager 1.0: An adventure in WordPress complete!

Cartoons & Comics, Computers: August 8th, 2008

Just a note for all you comic artists and WordPress + ComicPress folks: I just finished the first stable version of ComicPress Manager, version 1.0. It was quite and adventure trying to wrestle out a high-class plugin from the sometimes-awkward WordPress API and the quite-awkward syntax & behaviors of PHP (how about glob(), on some [...]