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Trailers Without Pity: Bride Wars

Most of the movies we do on "Trailers Without Pity" are ones that I plan to see at some point, but I can say without equivocation that unless I end up on a transatlantic flight next year, I don't plan to ever see the lace-adorned turd that Bride Wars looks like it will be.

So it made it pretty satisfying to be able to do rip on the trailer a little.

Here's this week's episode, featuring Animated Samuel L. Jackson:

Next week, we're doing Terminator: Salvation.

posted by Omar G. at 11:13 PM

Tech-related

Last night, I woke up at 3:45 a.m., sure that I was forgetting something.

I grabbed a snack and sat down in front of the computer and skimmed through my RSS feeds on Google Reader until I felt a little more caught up. I thought maybe I had a story due at work I hadn't finished or a video that needed scripting or something to e-mail to NPR. It was tough to lie still in bed with this feeling of owing something to somebody.

Usually this is a sign that I need a break.

Luckily, I'm getting one: next week I'm no vacation, I won't be doing an NPR segment (it'll be recorded in advance) and we're getting a week off from "Trailers Without Pity." I'm looking forward to doing absolutely nothing for at least a few days.

Until then, though, things are bouncy-busy: in today's paper, I had a story in Life & Arts about places on the Web where people vent about their jobs. This was a story I worked on for months. It was even pushed back at one point because there just wasn't enough juice and my editor was kind enough to give me more time to work on it. I posted a few extras on Digital Savant that didn't make it into the print version as well as Don Tate II's lovely illustration. Stories like this are very tough to organize and sometimes take a very long time to do, but I'm always thrilled when they finally appear.

I also got a chance to see a very high-tech guitar from Gibson, the "Dark Fire." And an extra treat was that two brothers from the band Del Castillo demonstrated it for me. Awwwesome. You can see the video I shot yesterday below. Sometimes I'm very blessed to get to spend work time doing stuff like this:

Yesterday's NPR "All Tech Considered" segment was a mini tech holiday gift guide. I've written two of these already, one for work, one for Television Without Pity, so I'm pretty gift-talked out. Irony: I have not yet done my own Christmas shopping. I posted links to the items mentioned in the piece on the NPR All Tech Considered blog.

And now I'm completely pooped. I'll post the newest "Trailers Without Pity" video for Bride Wars later today.

posted by Omar G. at 11:00 AM

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