Entries from June 2009

June 24, 2009

How I Made $100 This Morning

Or: Floyd’s Humanity Is Questioned By Heather.
This is a conversation I had with my friend Heather about, you guessed it, movies. (Apparently I need to change the name of this blog to “Floyd Talks To People About Movies.” Because that has a ring to it. And because it’s the only thing I chat about ever.) [...]

June 24, 2009

Floyd and Dan Discuss The Hangover

Floyd: so I saw The Hangover this weekend
Dan: your verdict? do you want to get into this?
Floyd: I thought it was mediocre overall
although Zach G was hilarious in virtually every scene he was in
I just thought too many jokes fell flat
Dan: Did your audience of peers laugh at those jokes?
Floyd: I think I would rather [...]

June 21, 2009

Star Trek Discussions, cont.

Another flurry of emails for your pleasure, this time including Floyd friend BAG:
Just read your colloquy on the Star Trek movie.  Entertaining stuff.  Two points:

BAG: 1. Dan is correct in that there’s a parallel universe angle to all this.  The various Star Trek incarnations have all made use of this device, but usually only [...]

June 5, 2009

Floyd and Dan Discuss Star Trek

WARNING: MAJOR STAR TREK SPOILERS
Occasionally Dan and I get together on chat and have funny conversations. I’ve been bugging him to see the new Terminator movie because it is just SO RIPE FOR RIPPING (that’s the name of your emo band), and he said that we should discuss Star Trek instead, seeing as how we’d [...]

June 5, 2009

How I Won the Abortion Debate

One of my favorite pastimes is discussing politics on internet message boards. The recent assassination of Wichita abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was obviously a hot topic of debate, a conversation I joined with relish. (I’ll leave out my personal feelings towards abortion in this post – let’s just say they fall somewhere in between [...]

June 2, 2009

Floyd Reviews: Terminator Salvation

This is a loose transcript from an email exchange I had with Dan after he asked me if he should go see the new Terminator:
Terminator – I don’t know whether to give a recommendation or not. It does have a lot of pretty well-choreographed action. It also has a lot of ridiculous, nonsensical action that [...]