One of my favorite ex-drinking buddies (dude’s totally sober now, but still acts way too happy sometimes!), and environmental reporter extraordinaire, has a couple of pics of me on his site, along with this line:

“Award-winning writer and bon vivant Luke Y. Thompson is one of Denise and Michael’s favorite club members.”

I’ll add only that when [...]

“Jesse Helms was a kind, decent and humble man and a passionate defender of what he called ‘the Miracle of America.’ So it is fitting that this great patriot left us on the Fourth of July” — President George W. Bush.

Um, no.

Jesse Helms was an unrepentant bigot who delighted in gloating at the defeat of [...]

Well, at least he won’t have to live to see a black president. That would have given him a heart attack.

It won’t happen, but I find it a fascinating hypothetical nonetheless — what if John McCain picked Condoleeza Rice as his running mate?

It would send a hell of a signal. In another year, it would be a riskier move because it might send racists over to the Dems. But this year, it would say to [...]

Just watched most of Kevin Smith’s JERSEY GIRL on TNT, with obviously edited profanity. So I don’t know if this counts as a proper review, but at last I feel qualified to speak on it.

For those that don’t know, this is the other movie (not GIGLI) where Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez get romantic, but [...]

This one’s all-purpose:

And this one’s for villainous roles:

So, my filmmaker friends…if you got sent these, would you toss ‘em, or keep ‘em?

[these are far from the only images in the set, but among the best]

P.S. – the photographer, John Gilhooley, needs more business. If you think these are well-taken, and are interested in getting a [...]

Sample…

In the decades to come, when James Cameron’s dream of every movie being in immersive, lifelike 3-D becomes reality, perhaps people will watch JOURNEY and criticize its poor grasp of science, or the oddly creepy way it pits a 13 year-old boy and his 40 year-old uncle as romantic rivals for a 20-ish girl. Perhaps, [...]

But there’ll be one more post. It will involve JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3-D and AMERICAN SON.

The two movies have nothing else in common. More later.

I’ve seen it. I’ve spoken on it. Need to know more?

Okay, just a sample…

Broom reads Hellboy a bedtime story, which we see enacted by CGI wooden dolls, that establishes what the plot of the movie will be – an indestructible army commissioned by elves and mythical creatures once laid waste to humanity, but was then [...]

Two posts since last we spoke.

One of them is here…

and the other is here…