Monthly Archives: January 2006

Got a couple of Smithee-worthy and related things for y’all to read. First off, here’s an excerpt from this brilliant review of the movie BloodRayne:

…If I find out that you went and saw this film after I told you not to, I’ll phone your friends up and tell them to go to your house and pour ants in your bed. And when you wake up screaming, covered in ants, you’ll think “at least I’m not still watching BloodRayne.”

This led the reviewer (one Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary fame) to do some poking into the background of the guy who directed this film… Turns out he’s a German by the name of Uwe Boll, and he deliberately makes bad moves to exploit a loophole in German tax laws. There’s a Cinema Blend article describing the whole sordid situation.
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One of the lesser known plagues afflicting Egypt was the plague of Old Dudes.

And yeah, when you compare it to things like locusts or having your sea turn into blood, a plague of Old Dudes seems quite minor. But it’s a big deal when it’s happening, believe me.
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Drove on down through the rain and fog. No snow. Just rain and fog. Not much rain either, apart from some little spritzy misty stuff just barely on the rainy side of the line dividing rain from fog.
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Happy new year all! And a big “Hi” to the first reader of 2006, who came here via a Yahoo Video search looking for a 3D Hypnotic Spiral. And to the last visitor of 2005 who was reading about Speed Writing over at my Wife’s blog.

Log analysis can be fun sometimes…
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