Tips from Chip

I happened to run across these recently and I was amused by them.  Apparently there’s a bunch of people who use their own computer software...

The members of the band Coldplay are big fans of the show Game of Thrones.  They’ve written some songs to turn it into a musical.  See Tyri...

I happened upon this video of three of the cast members of the current TV show The Flash singing a “gospel version” of the Firefly theme so...

Today the U.S. FCC five person panel determined that Net Neutrality should be enforced in this country.  This means that under their span of...

I did this quiz last year and it got a good reaction.  Here are fifty more films for you to try.  If you didn’t do that well last year then...

Weird Al Yankovic pretty much spans my musical consciousness.  I was in high school when a friend brought in something he had taped off the...

I’ve been away for a while working on my book.  Now that I’m returning I might get a reac...

Note: this post is inspired by Alex Withrow’s April 5, 2013 post Top 10 Movie Pet Peeves and his April 1, 2014 post Top 10 Movie Clichés (...

Here’s a little quiz to see how well you know your Oscar nominees.  I will list a series of real film names, grouped by related titles.  So...

No movie review today.  I’m taking a short break for Christmas.  I will then have a set of three special posts the week after.  I will talk...

Technically, this is an advertisement for Audi cars, but it was so funny that I had to post it anyway.  I have no affiliation with Audi and ...

Not "my" bird.  Just a random pic I found to help illustrate. No, that’s not the title of yet another obscure movie that I wi...

There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to face facts that certain things are not going to work like they used to.   Just becaus...

This blog just passed 100,000 views.   Sure, that’s not a very big number compared to sites that have boobs or cute cats (or both) on them,...

Today is Valentine’s Day.   (At least one person reading this just said “oh shit!”) Love is great when it’s mutual.   The two of you ha...

Remember William H. Macy’s character The Shoveler in the 1999 film Mystery Men?   Well that was me today – minus the outfit.   I spent four...

This isn’t a regular movie review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.   I will do that post as part of my Oscar nominees posts in January...

Most of us have at some point watched a movie because the trailer made it look interesting, or funny, or scary, or whatever it was we wante...

I just got home from the local GM dealership.   I own a Saturn, but when GM got rid of the brand they also got rid of the service, which wa...

Because the world has a lot of idiots and proof of this seems to eventually end up on the internet.   Here is a second sampling: (You c...