Common Sense

I expect more from a movie Web site like CHUD. I guess I should start lowering my expectations from now on.
28 Weeks Later is, of course, the sequel to from-out-of-nowhere powerhouse neo-zombie flick 28 Days Later. Upping the ante this time as zombie franchises tend to do, we’ve got the military full-on in this one […]

Space Monkey keeps chiding me for writing too much about my personal life on the blog, but I just figured somebody might be interested. I’m going on hour 34 without sleep. Since last Tuesday my doctor took me off my pain meds and left me with just the Cymbalta to keep sane and the nortriptylene […]

My new name for next Saturday’s impromptu film festival is the 1st Annual Cinco de Mayo Sausagefest!
Oh yes, there will be beer.

See what I did there? I used a line from the trailer for Saw II and made it funny and topical.
Do you want to go to Sausagefest? Do you live near Waco? Will […]

I’m not entirely clear on how Sen. Dan Patrick’s bill requiring ultrasounds before a woman can get an abortion isn’t unconstitutional.
I’m no constitutional scholar, but when it comes to abortion rights and the Supreme Court, I’ve read up a little. Although, Roe hasn’t been overturned, the prevailing thought is that any restriction on abortion is […]

With emphasis on the bloody!
Space Monkey and I decided to see a Wednesday movie to prepare for the 1st Annual Nate’s Day of Impromptu Cinema! Or, Nate’s DIC for short. Originally I was going to have a really impromptu film festival this Saturday, but I want some more people than just me and him there, […]

I used to read a lot of blogs every day. I mean a lot, somewhere upwards of 40-50. I kept in constant contact with many, many people who wrote those blogs and posted often with links to their posts about news stories they had read.
Then it hit me: I wasn’t actually writing anything substantive. It […]

That I would never be able to keep from blurting out really inappropriate things.
For instance, if I had been a senator on the Judiciary Committee listening to Alberto Gonzales’ testimony last Thursday, I might have said something like…
Sen. Me: “Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, but I would like to move that we formally nominate Attorney General […]

(Ed. note: No, I did not knock up a stripper. I know that’s what you are thinking.)
On Friday, we welcomed a new baby into the Common Sense household. His name is Cherub Rock and he is part pit bull and part screw-tailed bulldog. And he is the cutest little thing.
So now The Jesus has […]

I’ve read a lot of kvetching about Grindhouse’s poor showing in the box office — it’s 3 hour running time or ineffective marketing from the Weinstein company — but this, this, I think is just borderline retardo.
I don’t mean to opine on a topic that’s been better opined upon, but objectively, is it so surprising […]

You thought I wasn’t going to recognize the date, didn’t you?
I haven’t gone to see the two movies I really want to see — Grindhouse and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters — because I haven’t had the time. I was planning on a long movie-viewing Saturday, but I’m out of Vicodin […]