January 2012
11 posts
Movies I have watched recently
Over the last few weeks I watched a bunch of movies.
This is not in order of preference, or in order of when I watched them. This is an unordered list.
Stir Crazy - Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in jail. I wanted to love this movie a lot, but I only liked it a bit. I bet it was insane when it came out, because it’s very silly to an almost Marx Brothers like level. But I found myself...
Things Are Happening →
toyns:
Hey everyone, a good replacement for Wikipedia today is this new topical comedy podcast, Things Are Happening. Each week I assemble some of my favorite writers to make fun of things that are happening in the news.
The first episode features Eddie Brawley, Ramsey Ess, and Kevin Hines, and it’s not even a day old — if you had a bagel for breakfast this morning, the content is fresher...
Brian and Walter
My younger brother’s cat Walter had to be put to sleep today.
Brian was the first Hines brother to adopt a cat (I was the last) and he got a pretty amazing guy. Walter (named after UCONN’s Ray Allen) was friendly, relaxed, and ridiculous.
I believe Brian was told about Walter by a friend of his. He was a neighborhood stray that people wanted to find a good home for. Brian decided to...
WatchTime Travel Cloak
This video and this link is mostly for Sal Gentile.
I don’t understand any of it.
This cloak allows someone hide in time, rather then location. I read an entire article about it on Scientific American’s Blog and watched the above video and I still can’t come close to comprehending any of it. Manipulating time is super abstract to my mind. And I took some...
Know Everything!
improvnonsense:
I get in trouble for saying that because I deliberately say it in a jerk manner. KNOW EVERYTHING. When someone says “I didn’t know the movie my partner was mentioning” I’ll sometimes say “Well, you don’t HAVE to know it but it would be easier if you knew it.”
And then people are like “Why do I have to like Star Wars?”
And I say “Who said anything about Star Wars?”
“All these...
The Anthony King: The 2011 Totals →
anthonyking:
For the last three years, I have tracked my consumption and opinions of movies, plays and books on this blog. Here are the 2011 totals!
In 2011: (2008, 2009, & 2010 numbers in parentheses)
I watched 5 movies in the theater. (20,20,9)
I watched 59 movies on DVD/DVR/Cable. (67,47,56)
I saw…
But Antony if you don’t blog about this then how will I know how much...
