Walking the Plank

An excerpt from an end of the week meeting with Public Relations, last Friday afternoon; Web Development (my) office:
“Outsourcing,” I told him. “Outsourcing is the key.” I pointed to some wall diagrams showing the navigation of a website easily hundreds of pages deep, with enough back-end code to run Amazon.com… and maybe our Novell environment. [...]

Decade of Comic Movies

In the last few years, thanks in large part to Marvel’s resurrection from the near-dead, we’ve seen our big screen comic dreams come true with X-Men and Spider-Man. We’ve even seen the Sin City and Superman hit the screen, with even more new movies and sequels waiting in the production wings.
There’s a revolution: movie studios [...]

The Godfather Has Arrived

This past weekend Michelle and I followed the family to the church, and brought my neice Isabella up to that giant water fountain and got her all cleaned off from sin. Damn straight I’m a Godfather now, mikull.com’ers. Thanks once again to Bertman and PatPer for asking us- a really cool deal. Sidenote- there was [...]

What Kind of Car Trouble?

Monday morning, car accident. Lucky day for me! “No, no, he didn’t slam you, he didn’t bump you, he didn’t nudge you… he *rubbed* you. And rubbin, son, is racin’.” I’ll set the record straight- it wasn’t my fault, no one was hurt and there is very little damage to my car. I was driving [...]

You are Not in Good Hands with Allstate

Alas, my homeowner’s insurance policy is being dropped, because a weather forecasting group predicts a busier than normal hurricane season, May 15 through November 30, with a major storm hitting the Northeast. Read on my fellow New York and east coast residents, this one affects us.
“There are indications that the Northeast will experience a hurricane [...]

Gay Marriage Banned in New York

I never would have dreamed that New York’s highest court would be so callous and insulting to gay people. Not in this day and age- not in this area of the country. New York just reminded us that we’ll have to go through a long period of conflict and confusion before we make it to [...]

Transformers: Their War, Our World

The official, “real”, absolutely authentic and sanctioned announcement trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers is now online, scored by Steve Jablonsky. Folks heading to Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest should be able to catch this on the big screen. And so begins the countdown- 365 days until Transformers hits the big screen in [...]