Mar 16, 2007

TIVO for AM/FM


Finally, a TIVO for my AM/FM Radio. I got XM because of all the freakin' commercials on regular radio, only to STILL have commercials on the channels I actually listen to, like Comedy Central-150.
Except for the fact that it looks like a shark fin, which has little to no relevance to the actual product. The Radio Shark 2 is an upgrade to Griffin's almost three-year-old Radio Shark 1. The Shark 2 plugs into a Mac or PC via USB and can then time-shift and record live AM or FM radio. This one is a bit better than the original because you have more customizable schedule recording features. It also is now compatible with iTunes and can handle Internet radio. The Radio Shark 2 is available for $50. (Psst...HD Radio users, a Radio Shark HD is on the way.)

Mar 15, 2007

Why Can't Bush Be Like Bauer?

It is always fun to read political writers wax philosophic about fictional TV characters... Witness a piece from:
The American Conservative

What Would Jack Bauer Do?

Fox’s hit drama normalizes torture, magnifies terror, and leaves conservatives asking why George W. Bush can’t be more like 24’s hero.

by Michael Brendan Dougherty

......When we are lazy, he is up all night. Where we cut and run from adversity, he cuts and runs right through his enemies. And a nation of cubicle-dwellers, daily harassed by the bureaucratic minutia of their hum-drum jobs, can’t help being attracted to a man who barks at his superiors, “We don’t have time for this!” as he takes on the ultimate job of keeping his country and his family safe. In The Weekly Standard, Martha Bayles rhapsodized, “When imagining a nuclear bomb about to explode in L.A., or a weaponized virus about to be released in eleven major cities, we welcome Jack’s Odyssean alertness, courage, and cunning.” One could add to this list Jack’s indomitable patriotism—his willingness to suffer any fate rather than see his nation harmed. To Bayles’s credit, she voices what she believes to be the mixed feelings of Americans about his methods: “it is harder to swallow his readiness to torture. For most of its history, American entertainment has depicted torture as pure evil. So it is jarring to see it routinely ordered, even inflicted, by the good guys.”

But for so many, even in the conservative movement, it is exactly Jack Bauer’s brutal tactics that make him worth admiring. After the premiere of the fifth season, National Review’s John J. Miller relished the “best line”: “You are gonna tell me what I want to know. It’s just a question of how much you want it to hurt.”

In 24, the war on terror is an omni-present ticking clock, pitting our legitimate security needs against the most cherished tenets of our civilization. The stress one hour of this imposes on Jack Bauer alone makes good drama, but its extension to all America, for an indefinite time, is a farce. The devotion to 24 and its protagonist demonstrates what few may care to admit: in the war on terror, the conservative movement has become willing to sacrifice principle to passion and difficult moral reasoning to utility. As escapism, 24 is riveting; as a parable for our time, it is revolting.

New Goodies


Here's a HEADS UP on a new phone service that apparently is the
BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD. Grandcentral.com
It allows you to route all calls from all phones to one phone, via the web.
It lets you place a link on your website. People click it, and call you.
And much more, including saving wireless minutes Oh yeah, it's free.

Redesigned Boeing Aircraft to Replace 747s?


It may look like a stealth fighter jet, but Boeing is hoping its new X-48B aircraft will become the commercial airliner of the future. The blended-wing plane—a name given to planes that merge the fuselage and wings into one—eliminates the tail part of a plane (which is usually the part of the plane responsible for lag drag). In doing so, the X-48B uses up to 30% less gas than a typical airliner. Boeing hopes to have a military version of the plane ready by 2022, and a passenger model by 2030.
via (Gizmodo)

Mar 12, 2007

My Politics

Lest anyone reading this think I'm an idealogue, I'll just throw my positions out
there for the hell of it...
I AM:
Pro Death penalty

Pro Choice (1st 3 months) - It has lowered the crime rate drastically
(Basically, as Dennis Miller pout it: I'm for anything that gets the 405 Freeway moving)

Pro Stem Cell Research

Pro Alternative Energy

Anti-Illegal Aliens

Pro Gun Control

Anti Quotas of any kind

Pro "Lost"

Anti- Howard Stern




Extremely Skeptical of:

Religions
Global Warming
Global Business
Global Anything
George Bush
The Burning Bush
Antonio Villaraigosa (Mayor of LA)
Schwarzeneggar - He ain't no Republican
9/11 Conspiracies
Every Democrat Running for President
Every Republican Running For President, except Tancredo and Fred Thompson

Mar 11, 2007

PLEASE watch this video.


If you've seen Al Gore's flick, and got all freaked out, then you owe it to yourself to view the OTHER MOVIE, that shows what I feel is the REAL truth.For Cryin-Out-Loud, PATRICK MOORE, the CO-FOUNDER of GREENPEACE, says Global Warming is an unproven theory that has been taken hostage by liberal extremists...

Moore calls global warming the "most difficult issue facing the scientific community today in terms of being able to actually predict with any kind of accuracy what's going to happen"[6]. While acknowledging that the increase of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is caused by human consumption of fossil fuels, he claims that as of 2006, it cannot be fully proven that this is the reason the Earth has been warming since 1980.[citation needed] He stresses that it is scientific evidence, not consensus opinion, that would prove or disprove this relation.

"It's become so complicated, there's so much snake oil around the whole subject... the best comment that was ever made was by Michael Crichton in his book State of Fear: 'I am certain there is too much certainty in the world'. And I am certain that he is right."[6]
...There's too much money being made by people telling us we're all goin' underwater. You'll feel much better about the globe after watching the video, but a bit angrier at humans...Remember the SCIENTISTS telling us Y2K COULD be the end of the world as we knew it? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... shame on me.

Mar 5, 2007

The Great Global Warming Swindle


Channel 4 in London will air the response to 'An Inconvenient Truth' this week...
And now we'll finally get a good debate going... Turns out, there are PLENTY of scientists who disagree after all, who AREN'T getting paid to say so..

Feb 25, 2007

Musings on Everything Else

The Denver Broncos lost another player Saturday, as Damien Nash collapsed and died after a charity basketball game, to raise funds for his brother, who had a heart defect..

The Mega-Millions Jackpot is up to a cool quarter Billion dollars, if you're into that sorta thang...

Steven's record at QB soars to 2-1, now that his team is playing against other teams of similar age and weight... 0-3 vs. seemingly steroid enhanced-freak-show droids who live-sleep-eat drink football more than he does...

Anyone know why my dog picks up his kibble, ONE DAMN PIECE AT A TIME, carries it 12 feet away, to the carpet, and eats it there, and returns to his bowl to repeat the process?

Anyone know/care why Studio 60 was bumped for some lame-ass looking Sopranos wanna-be about 4 teenage irish mafiosos?

Steven wants a helicopter for his birthday.. After a couple of seconds of research, I've decided on the Air Hogs Helix. $59.95...

Apparently we were building our border fence 10 feet south of where our border supposedly is, and the Mexicans were PISSED! How did they know we were ten FEET over the line? We of course, quickly packed up our fence posts, and beat a hasty retreat, quicker than any Frenchie could've... I hang my head in shame daily at this nation...

Feb 23, 2007

Musings on the TV Season


Click here for a cute satire on NBC's 'Heroes'

This is Earth-shattering news: (not really). Not gonna watch Idol this season till the final four..... The judges picked a lot of lousy, lousy singers and passed on many good singers, who were hotter more talented.. I'm not being rude, Simon, but this year, I give you guys a Rating of : 2.... By the way, Nimrod as if you'd actually read this blog the saying is: "I don't mean to be rude," not "I'm not being rude"

Lost's episode Weds. night had to be the most boring, pointless ep they've ever done. Jack flashes back on some Indonesian tart he bedded, and got tat's for... He negotiates that blonde lady zookeepers freedom, and Kate and Sawyer piss and moan about whether to go back for Jack... There. I saved you an hour... Overall Rating: 8

I really do like Jericho.. despite the whole gloomy post-nuclear premise.. I'm sure
it'll get yanked by CBS just as it hits it's stride, like ABC did last year, with "Invasion", and NBC did with "Surface". Overall Rating: 9

And as for watching Katie Couric on the CBS evening news? I'd rather do this..
Overall Rating: -1

Monk has been a little predictable this season.. Rating: 7
24 has been good, but not as great as previous seasons... Rating 9.5



Feb 21, 2007

Esther Nationwide


Esther has been interviewed by and had pieces run by:

Good Morning America

Today Show

Scarborough Country

Inside Edition
Online Story HERE

The Insider

Entertainment Tonight

KTLA / KCBS / KABC / KNBC / KTTV-Fox

CBS This Morning

Ryan Seacrest - KISS FM


A wild, 2 days for her...

I think this whole thing happened because she wanted to destroy the evidence of her partying.... (her hair samples could've been used against her in the custody battle...)


I hope to have a clip of her interview up tomorrow..

Feb 19, 2007

Media Coverage of Esther and Britney Spears gets B for accuracy..


Took the day off from work today, and caught a little more of the overkill that is Britney.
The most comical visual is of a reporter on Fox 11 News doing a live shot outside Esthers Haircutting Studio at 8 am in the rain, 3 days after the buzz... Esther doesn't even go into her shop on Monday, OR TUESDAY... I wonder how long they'll keep after her... 75 messages on their answering machine. I remember how quick everything seems to move, when the media hunt you. Back in 1997, when I was to be called as an expert witness in the OJ Simpson trial, (the defense team used me for video dubs, and were doing shenanigans with the footage at trial..)
I had Dateline and 20/20 interviewing me... Not so easy to sound coherent with lights in your face. Later that day, the Oklahoma City bombings hit, and my story was dropped like a hot potato... I think Esther would like that to happen too..

Lots of misinformation and typical human greediness (all you dirtbags saying you snatched her hair up off the ground, ought to be ashamed of yourselves...) abounds in the aftermath.
One blogging site has some correct information, as listed below with the red text showing
falsehoods..

".....However, the fact that video of the shearing is available on the net is not the only thing available to web surfers. Because now the pop-princess's lopped-off locks are available on eBay. (eBay took their auction down because they said it couldn't be verified.. fine. Why let eBay have any of the proceeds anyway?) Yes, fans can purchase the shaved locks, as well as a leftover Red Bull energy drink and the blue Bic lighter Spears supposedly left behind at the salon.

One can have it all for the tidy sum of one million bucks. Esther Tognozzi, owner of Esther's Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, is marketing the locks although she and her husband JT Tognozzi admit they have no idea why Spears chose their establishment.

However, the entrepreneurial couple certainly recognized a good thing when they saw it. The Tognozzi's indicated they were already closed for the night when Spears arrived with her bodyguard.

They were also quick to insist that they are the only ones to have the true tresses of Spears dark hair available for sale. According to the co-owners, all other eBay offers are simply not authentic.

Indeed, wistful hair-acquiring bloggers have noted their searches list many Spears locks for sale, even blonde locks (wrong color) are available. Of course, one other site insists that an employee for the Tognozzi's actually snatched the hair after cutting and therefore he is the one, not the Tognozzi's, with the authentic hair ball.

(B.S.... Esther has no male employees at her HAIR SALON. They do have a friend of the family helping them set up a website to sell it themselves... )

and THIS.. from another site...

".....He (Jan) said some proceeds from the sale would go to charity, possibly including the Florida-based Locks of Love, which supplies wigs to kids with cancer.

The Tognozzis say the decadent diva's thick pile of dark tresses and extensions is the only authentic Spears hair on eBay, despite dozens of competing claims.

A quick search of "Britney Spears hair" turns up a slew of enterprising copycats - offering everything from a $US3,000 ($3815) lock of dark hair from a seller in Ohio to a $US90,300 ($114,850) blond tuft - the wrong color.

Canadian web developer Hazim Gaber asked for upwards of $US1 million for hair he claims his employee snatched off the salon floor. He even promised to release a web video as proof of authenticity. (I think he's perilously close to lawsuit territory for fraud.. Esther has never heard of him.)

But Tognozzi said the only people in the shop during the incident were his wife, her assistant, Spears and the singer's bodyguard. (ABSOLUTELY TRUE.. I've been there dozens of times, and at 7 pm, no one is around... That's probably why she went there...)

All the doors were locked and the shop was already closed for the night when Spears arrived, he said. "It's pretty crazy, all the frauds and stuff that's out there," Tognozzi said, adding that he would be surprised if anyone fell for them. "They're not even in our state." (Seriously... what the hell would a guy from Canada know about any of this?)


Feb 17, 2007

The Day Britney Shaved Her Head At Esthers!


What a small, small world after all.. That story about Britney going and getting her head shaved? She did it at my Sister-In-Law Esther's Haircutting Studio... She walked in, and asked Esther to shave her head... Esther replied "No.. I can't do that.." She repeated the request... Esther again said no. So SHE GRABBED her razor, and just went ROTC on herself... I haven't seen the pictures, but I'm told it was quite the scene... Many people have been calling Esther and asking her about the hair...
She still has it.
Then Britney went to a tattoo parlor, and according to news reports......

"The employee told US Magazine that Spears was agitated when she arrived at the tattoo parlor and that when someone asked her why she shaved her head, Spears said, "I don't want anyone touching me. I'm tired of everybody touching me."The woman said Spears "wasn't making sense at all" and that it seemed like she wasn't in a good place. She said Spears was "totally freaking out."

Feb 14, 2007

Global Warming, Global Shwarming

The price of energy has gone up 50% in the last 18 months in Britain.... Thanks to Tony Snow's and British watermelons (enviromentally green on the outside, politically far left/communist inside) okerkill tactics to fight GLOBAL WARMING.. And the same stuff is heading to your neck of the woods....


Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political and BUSINESS purposes (There's a lot of money being made telling us how bad it all will get... For instance, Paramounts biggest grossing film of last year was Al Gores....)

--and lays out killer evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. . It's the ideal scare campaign for those who hate capitalism and love big government.
For instance, he notes... if EVERY SINGLE NATION, INCLUDING THE U.S. ... followed the mandate of the Kyoto Protocols, (which many member nations are purposefully violating) we could slow down the earth's temperature rise .07 of ONE DEGREE... at a cost to Americans, of about 4% of Gross Domestic Product.... the Iraq War cost 1/2 of 1% of GDP......
On August 31, 2006,

California Legislature reached an agreement with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce the state's greenhouse-gas emissions, which rank at 12th-largest in the world, by 25 percent by the year 2020. This resulted in the Global Warming Solutions Act which effectively puts California in line with the Kyoto initiative.

As of January 18, 2007, 369 US cities in 50 states, representing more than 55 million Americans support Kyoto after Mayor Greg Nickels of Seattle started a nationwide effort to get cities to agree to the protocol.

Feb 3, 2007

In Time For Mother's Day..


This disturbing image comes to you from eGreetings.com.
They're in the business of making funny, risque, animated birthday eCards, Valentine eCards and other occasions.. they can be personalized with a message and pictures, and scheduled far in advance....

Feb 1, 2007

20 Ways To Ruin A First Date

I Hired a new Assistant, Skeezix.. to surf the web, and find the best of the best, in comic genius.... strangely, he found it at my other site: Vidmeister.

20 Ways to Ruin A First Date:
also.....

How To Get Back At An Ex-Girlfriend

20 Ways To Ruin A First Date


My suggestions to Mess with first dates.




1. Fill pants with mulch, let a little fall out from time to time, whisper, "Oh no, it's happening again."

2. Upon meeting him/her, scrape finger across his/her shoulder, taste and say, "You'll do."

3. Wear a Members Only jacket, jams, and a Spuds MacKenzie hat. make references to '80's culture as if it were topical, e.g. "Have you seen that new 'Pretty in Pink' movie?"

4. Constantly hint that you are an alien, as in "Reminds me of Zorzootz 4... uh... I mean Venice."

5. (men) Tag on real sardonic "for a girl" to all your compliments, as in, "That skirt looks really nice on you... for a girl."

6. Greet date with gifts: a) a stack of wrestling magazines b) your dirty laundry c) black orchids--the flower of death d) a bag of marbles and a large grouper.

7. Refuse to veer conversation away from Jack-O.

8. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom, come back sopping wet, offer no explanation.

9. Greet date with the classic "Give me five, up high, down low, you're too slow."

10. Repeatedly use the word "milkweed" as an adjective, as in "This has been really milkweed."
11. Boast about your ligament strength.

12. Rub hands together and smile fiendishly as you talk.
13. Two words: male perm.

14. Four words: wear a name tag.

15. Put parmesan cheese in your coffee.

16. In an accusing tone, constantly compare your date unfavorably to Gollum, as in, "Gollum didn't smoke."

17. Attempt to do napkin origami. Fail. Be ruthlessly hard on yourself with "I suck"s and "I'm such a loser!"s.

18. Speak all your statements with an interrogative inflection?

19. Respond at entirely inappropriate times with "Is that a threat or an invitation?" or "Do the math."

20. After successfully cutting meat, exclaim proudly, "I am the shit." Do that "raise the roof" gesture.

Wanna Get Back At Your Ex?


Men, do you wanna get back at your ex? - 41


So she dumped you and found a slightly fey hardbody at 24-Hour Fitness, and now all of a sudden the gal who couldn't give you the time of day is running around town with a half full plastic water bottle, and this sense of urgency that suggests she has better things to do than loiter around with your lame ass. Of course, whenever you happen upon each other at the local Starbucks, she makes a big deal out of showing off her newest acquisition, whether it's the new car Biff just bought her, or the tony tan she got skiing Vale for the 4th time this season. She's all about the glitz and glam bucko, and she's giving it to you good! Makes you feel like crap for chintzing on that Christmas gift, doesn't it? Maybe instead of regifting that crap toaster your ex roomy left you, you should have given her something from Tiffany's or some other extravagant overpriced boutique.

What shall you do? What shall you do? Well for starters, you need yourself a big fat, obnoxious, overbearing bitch. Like me, for instance. Now, now, before you get scared off, think of it, me on your arm, you smiling blissfully into my beady eyes. First thing the bitch is going to wonder is 'hey, what's he doing with that fat skank?'. She may even giggle a bit and point us out to Dirk while they sit chit chatting over their Powerbooks at Cafe Amore.

But soon, very very soon, it will begin to bug her. It will begin to niggle in her brain. Here she is, beauty, brains, and a cute lilting little laugh. A pert little nose and an ass she only has to occasionally think of flexing as she shimmys past the construction crew on the corner. She's got it all.....and you got HER???? What could you possiby see in an old slag like me? I'm no beauty. I laugh like an old mare. But for some reason, you're inexplicably drawn to me. Maybe, she thinks, I'm better than her in bed. Maybe I do that naughty thing that you always wanted to do, but she thought was too nasty.

Suddenly she wonders what I have that she doesn't have? How can a guy like you go out with a gal like me, especially when you recently were going out with her? The poor little twit begins to doubt herself. Wonders if wrinkles really do add character, as she squints in the mirror trying to figure out what she's missing that you're now attracted to in me. She doesn't know why she so jealous of such a hideous lump, but she simply can't figure out what she could be missing that you'd have found in me.

It's not the pretty gals you guys date after you dump your sig other, it's the ugly ones that get on their last nerve.

So you game? Wanna drive her over that last little line of sanity she has toed in the sand?
Call me.


Jan 31, 2007

John Wayne, On Iraq




“If you've got them by the balls... their hearts and minds will follow.” - John Wayne

Top 10 Funniest TV Characters?


BuddyTV.com has a few conversation/argument starters, such as:
Top 10 Funniest Characters on TV Right Now
Other Lists: Top 10 Most Worthless Characters
Top Ten Most Desireable Females... etc. etc...

Jan 28, 2007

Metaphysics and Miniature Golf



If you are feeling like you need to explore more mysteries of the universe, you might spend a moment or two over at
WIRED's 42 Things We Don't Know


Congratulations to Steven for Quarterbacking his team of little underachievers to their first league win, 18-12. He received a medallion for MVP by the team mom. The look of joy on his face when he ran for his first touchdown of the season was worth way more than the sign-up fees and equipment costs..

In other sports news, I'll be rooting for the Bears... just Bearly ... (get it?) only because I have friends and relatives who worship them... But I have NO SYMPATHY for Michael Vick, QB of the Falcons... Neither does Saturday Night Live.


I was sent this amusing, short time-waster by my bro-in law Jan. It is a Javascript Miniature Golf Game.. I shot a 53... Can you beat me? Probably... the 18th is a beeyotch...

Jan 24, 2007

50 Greatest Cartoons Of All Time


It's about freakin' time someone got around to rating these, and if that's not special enough, the website also went to the trouble of finding online links to just about all of em...
http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2006/12/the_50_greatest.html

At left, is a shot from #1, "What's Opera, Doc?"...a fine choice.

Jan 19, 2007

Bob Dylan Wrote EVERYTHING! - Funny.

There's a new website up with some pretty funny stuff, I found out about from
popcandy.com
http://www.superdeluxe.com/

Never was a big Dylan fan till now... Gosh... I wish I could've heard his early renditions
of "Seasons In The Sun," "Let's Get It Started," and "Jump." Oh well...

Unlike the rest of the world, I'm 3% LESS satisfied with this season's initial 4 hours of 24, than last years.... Seems like the same stuff... and how he could steal somebody's car, with a BUILT-IN (1988??) cell phone, and use it to get mapping data of where the terrorists were.... could use some 'splainin... But I will watch,.,
Make sure you don't skip this week's "Scrubs"... Its done Broadway Musical Style... Pure Genius,.,,

Steven's football team will likely go winless this season... Apparently, all the other teams are actually already assembled ( ave played together for a year or two, competitively) tackle teams who are just using this touch football league as an offseason workout/practice... Our team is with absolute beginners (other than Steven).. In 3 games, they've lost 40-0, 33-0 and 40-0 and they haven't even been able to make a first down.... I'm writing a scathing letter to the company running this joke of a league, i9 Sports... to tell them to restructure it...This company is nationwide, and allows teams to be formed BEFORE they actually sign up... No tryouts, no splitting up the teams evenly.... bring any ringers you want... They are really going to turn a lot of kids off to sports forever....

Jan 12, 2007

Redneck Mans Pickup Lines

also sent by DEVIN


Redneck Man's pick up lines

1) Did you fart?
cuz you blew me away.

2) Are yer parents retarded?
cuz ya sure are special.

3) My Love fer you is like diarrhea .
I can't hold it in.

4) Do you have a library card?
cuz I'd like to sign you out.

5) Is there a mirror in yer pants?
cuz I can see myself in em.

6) If you was a tree I were a Squirrel,
I'd store my nuts in yer hole.

7) You might not be the best lookin girl here, but
beauty's only a light switch away.

8) Man - "Fat Penguin!"
Woman - "WHAT?"
Man - "I just wanted to say something that would break the ice."

9) I know I'm not no Fred Flintstone,
but I bet I can make yer bed-rock.

10) I can't find my puppy, can you help me find him?
I think he went inta this cheap motel room.

11) Yer eyes are as blue as window cleaner.

12) If yer gunna regret this in the mornin,
we kin sleep til afternoon.

and.... the best for last!

13) Yer face reminds me of a wrench,
every time I think of it my nuts tighten up.

Jan 8, 2007

Bring On Jack Bauer


Only 5 days to go till the PREMIERE of 24..... Life becomes livable again...
Till then, a nice feature on Kiefer Sutherland appears at Men's Vogue..

http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/feature/articles/2006/12/18/kiefer_sutherland

I had a fairly uneventful holiday season.... no snow here in SoCal.. Damn Broncos played their way out of the post-season... Wished I could've gone to CES in Vegas.. (Consumer Electronics Show)...
I've been there about three times, all of them with Steve Flack... Couldn't go back there without him.. Just wouldn't be the same..
Steven played his first game of the season in the city Touch Football League, as Quarterback... He did well, though the team's Coach and other players are absolutely raw beginners, and they faced some freakish Powerhouse-Drill Sergeant-led overachievers with wristbands telling them what plays to run... It was like every kid sports movie you've ever seen,,, I felt like Rick Moranis... They lost 33-0.... Steven was NOT pleased...
Hopefully, all the teams aren't like that..

My sister asked for advice on the best way to get VHS into DVD... I've been using the Panasonic DVD recorders for years... dependable and easy.
http://focuscamera.com/sc/froogle-lead-1.asp?id=964601113&rf=froogle&dfdate=01_05_2007&sid=874375851

Useful Site Of The Month:
http://kids-in-mind.com/
Rates movies and DVD's in three categories: Sexual Content / Violence / Language
with 3 numbers from 1 to 9, for a quick glance as to the appropriateness of a movie for the kiddies...

2nd Useful Site of the Month:
Yelp.com
A place to get real-world reviews of restaurants/services in your area... Hey.. somebody post a nice review of ADVANCED VIDEO there.... I'd be ever so grateful...