-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Lyle Verbilion on Cranberry Muffins of Love
- georgeann bianchi on Cranberry Muffins of Love
- Lyle Verbilion on Cranberry Muffins of Love
- Julie Weeder on Cranberry Muffins of Love
- Lyle Verbilion on Ghif or Jif? How to Pronounce the .gif Extension
As Lyle Mentioned
- Emergency Essentials Freeze Dried stuff and Emergency Gear.
- Glenn Campbell, Free Sleeper Area 51 guy, and so much more
- Honeyville Food Products Freeze Dried goodness in a can.
- Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools You might as well consume stuff that really works.
- Max Lyon's Panorama Stuff Panorama software and pictures and other stuff.
- Pandora Music service that I actually pay for!
- Techdirt Business and the Internet, together again for the first time!
- The American Southwest Places to go, things to see. You’ll be glad you did.
- Weather Underground The best weather website.
- You want to buy my t-shirts. And Calendars. And maybe other stuff. Really.
Author Archives: Lyle Verbilion
Movies of Addicted Women
In the 70’s there were all these women-in-prison movies. A few years after September 11, there came a bunch of women-struggling-with-addiction movies. The male version was typified by 1988’s Clean & Sober, with Michael Keaton. (It’s available on Netflix.) Vera … Continue reading
Posted in Vidi
Tagged Down to the Bone, DVD, movie, Rachel Getting Married, recomendation, Sherrybaby
Leave a comment
Vote For Giant Robots
OK, so Einstein’s hairy cranium doesn’t match the rest of your wardrobe. Now you’ve got another option. With the recent election safely over, no one will consider you ironic or un-American in any way when you wear this. Best of … Continue reading
All I Know About Soap
It takes some kind of fat or oil to make soap. Beef fat is called tallow. Pig fat is lard. If you don’t want to use those, there’ s oil from coconuts, olives, soybeans. If you use olive oil, you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Independent Research
Leave a comment
Movies of Children and Doom
Tideland is a Terry Gilliam movie in super widescreen. A little girl’s irresponsible parents die, and she fends for herself in the wilds of Kansas or something. She meets some odd people. There’s a train wreck. That may be a … Continue reading
Posted in Vidi
Tagged Bridge to Terabithia, death, DVD, infinity, life, Pan's Labyrinth, recomendation, Tideland
Leave a comment
Ramona is Cool
My favorite Beverly Cleary books growing up were The Mouse and the Motorcycle sagas. I loved them dearly. Pb-pb-b-b-b! But I can understand folks preferring the Henry Huggins books. What I never could tolerate, however, were the folks who read … Continue reading
Posted in Bookses, Vidi
Tagged Beverly Cleary, book, DVD, movie, Ramona and Beezus, recomendation, The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Leave a comment
My One Question of Mark Lenard
Mark Lenard was a character actor on TV. He played Spock’s father on Star Trek. In fact, he was the first person to play all 3 main Star Trek aliens: Vulcan, Romulan, Klingon. He never got a chance to play … Continue reading
Posted in Independent Research
Tagged autograph, childhood, Mark Lenard, memory, question
Leave a comment
The Finest White Male Singer on the Planet
Harry Nilsson. According to the Smothers Brothers, either you don’t know the name, or you’re like “Oh, wow, he’s cool.” There is no in-between. There’s a new documentary out. It was made in 2007, but took till 2010 to get … Continue reading
Posted in Musica, Vidi
Tagged DVD, Harry Nilsson, movie, music, recomendation, Who's Harry Nilsson and Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him
Leave a comment
Malthus Was An Optimist
According to the CIA World Factbook: 126 billion acres on planet Earth. 6.9 billion people on planet Earth. = 18.26 acres of planet Earth per person. This is where you get all your water and fuel and oxygen from. Surface … Continue reading
You Want the T-Shirt
It’s true. They Saved Einstein’s Hair-Do. They really did. And all the world is better for it. Sure, if they’d planned ahead a little, maybe they could have saved something more important than just his Hair-Do. Maybe some mitochondrial DNA, … Continue reading
Posted in Independent Research
Tagged buy me, t-shirt, They Saved Einstein's Hair-Do
Leave a comment
But What Does a Screaming Forehead Mean?
Last night, I saw it. A wriggling thing that shouldn’t be wriggling. It was on IFC, and I DVR’d it, and best of all this is my week of being a Nielson family. So maybe my tastes will finally be … Continue reading
Posted in Vidi
Tagged Blamire, Lost Skeleton, movie, recomendation, Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Leave a comment