Alan Is Good

Haiku Monday October 26, 2009

I’m hanged and quartered

This midnight – enough time for

Just a few more frights…

Haiku Monday October 19, 2009

Fall down stairs once more

There’s a chainsaw massacre

For me in Texas

Haiku Monday October 12, 2009

She’s smart and so fine

Just a little too nosy

Hope you like red wine

In just five months, she gained over 2.1 million followers on Twitter.  Not nearly as impressive as @AlanIsGood, but not bad for a 16 year-old pop star.  For a time, things were good, but Miley decided to make like Trent Reznor and become a qwitter, even going one step further by actually deleting her account.

It’s always a party in the USA when you’re Miley, so she explains her decision via (drumroll) YouTube rap video. More »

YouTube made a small logo adjustment this morning in celebration of reaching 1 billion views per day.  CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley gives an update on the YouTube Global blog (which is strangely hosted on BlogSpot, party like its 1999, I guess) and reiterates the three principles of online video that YouTube has always held paramount: More »

Haiku Monday October 5, 2009

Tickling your neck skin

It’s the wind, but no one left

That window open.

No apologies for any bias or skew this post may contain.  The past 5 years have been horrendous for American horror, and original films like the SAW franchise have been our only saving grace from throwing in the towel and letting Japan go ahead and handle the entire genre.

Yes, the SAW franchise is five sequels deep.  I strongly recommend watching them chronologically, as the story definitely builds upon each previous movie.  In an age with remakes abound,  films produced around gore/new CGI tricks instead of storyline and plot, the SAW franchise is original, unpredictable, and THE most successful horror franchise ever.  Fact.

I put together a rough breakdown of the box office success the SAW franchise has seen to date:

(Hover over the movie posters to see movie data) More »