http://www.aftercheese.com in a world gone ripe, one cadre of voices could make a difference... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:34:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Extraordinary-- Nigerian email spams had previously been focused on stories of, say, relatives of dead heads of state, or anonymous millionaires dying of incurable diseases... now, however, we're getting appeals on behalf of the son of Anna Nicole Smith, who apparently did not actually die but is in fact instead doing well ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2008/06/10/son-of-anna-nicole-smith-redux-a-nigerian-email-spam-scam/ Half-forgotten blog/Insomniac ramblings/of a movie buff...  Denver hotel Hell/on a snowy April night/watching "Half Past Dead". Poor Steven Seagal/starring in low-budget crap/that he writes himself. Wikipedia/Hear the wisdom of the crowd/or one publicist. Quote of the day: "The neutrality of this article is disputed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal#Upcoming_projects_and_Cannibal_Holocaust_remake. "Nature has its brutal side", says Seagal, "and it's not always ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2008/04/17/back-to-after-cheese-steven-seagals-half-past-dead-review-in-haiku/ Just saw a so-so little movie on Encore called Cyber Wars. Cyberpunk wannabe, well-intentioned, hard-working, but just under-resourced, under-fed, under-developed. A world blending and overlaying virtual reality on reality-reality... corporations and massively powerful and capricious individuals running everything like a game, a cop and a bounty hunter of sorts working ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2008/01/19/cyber-wars-good-intentions-arent-enough/ Sometimes something turns up on DVD that completely passed you by when it was in the theatres, but when you finally catch up with it you understand why you never heard about it.  This is one of those times. There's a terribly wrong sickness inside this weird little inside-a-serial-killer's-head movie. The ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/12/31/mister-brooks-movie-review/ Cheese on Demand: in response to the "Wide Stance" meme triggered by the Larry Craig incident, someone has created a Larry Craig Doll -- an actual talking action figure of the closeted (or stalled?) Senator, wearing an "I AM NOT GAY" t-shirt. Too absurd for words. http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/12/09/larry-craig-doll-action-figures-wide-stance/ (Proof that this blog can do more than pan cans of crap...) Just when you think everything's gone over to monoculture (aka "American Processed Cheese Food Product")... you run across a little gem like Bragging Rights: Stickball Stories. The distinctively New York stickball subculture (with offshoots in Cocoa Beach, FL, Puerto Rico, ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/12/04/bragging-rights-stickball-stories-documentary/ A shocking never-before-seen video of Anna Nicole Smith surfaced Tuesday night on Fox News. The footage shows an eight month pregnant Smith acting incoherent while she played with the young child of her friend Ford Shelly. In the video, the nine-year-old girl becomes frightened of Smith. Smith believes the doll ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/10/25/youtube-video-of-new-icon-anna-nicole-smith-on-drugs/ Apparently Britney Spears has become obsessed with Princess Diana. After building a shrine to the People's Princess (whose death in a Paris tunnel ten years ago is now the cause of a solemn, strangely belated inquest), Britney Spears now thinks she shares Diana's destiny. The hysterical shrilling about a Britney Suicide ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/10/09/britney-spears-and-princess-diana/ From a style standpoint these two looked pretty good, if you want eye candy. Cross the Matrix with the Hellraiser movies, and you've got most of it. But Underworld and Underworld: Evolution both suffer terribly from a lack of irony in the blood. The movies take themselves excruciatingly seriously-- from the ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/09/09/underworld-and-underworld-evolution-blood-irony-deficiency/ I must not have been paying attention. The blogosphere and news media were recently abuzz with reports of a (stolen?) video of Anna Nicole Smith's breast implant surgery. I never imagined things could take such a turn, when I wrote my post on Anna Nicole's mythic proportions. But then, one ... http://www.aftercheese.com/2007/08/20/anna-nicole-smith-breast-implant-surgery-video-despair/