Archive for April, 2008
Posted in April 16th, 2008
As promised, I will try to regularly post as I make my way through the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, and I have officially met the halfway point of Season Two. Overall, I’m enjoying the slightly darker and more “realistic” tone of the show. “Realistic” in the sense that, although the situations are all [...]
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Posted in April 15th, 2008
I finally did it - I got all 120 stars in Super Mario Galaxy. It wasn’t easy, and there were a few times I thought about calling it quits. (Bouldergeist’s Daredevil Run, I’m looking at you…) But I was absolutely obsessed with this game, so I wanted to get every single possible star. It got [...]
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Posted in April 14th, 2008
Photo courtesy of Fox
I hadn’t caught any promos or news of this week’s Simpsons, so I had no idea that we’d be seeing Lurleen Lumpkin again. While the reintroduction of a character that we’ve barely seen in sixteen seasons could have felt awkward and forced, this episode provided a lot of laughs.
The show began [...]
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Posted in April 11th, 2008
All photos courtesy of nbc.com
Oh, my beloved NBC sitcoms - how I missed you! 30 Rock, The Office, and Scrubs are three of the best comedies on the air right now (certainly the best live-action network sitcoms), and I had gotten so used to life without them that I forgot just how much I [...]
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Posted in April 10th, 2008
Photo courtesy of southparkstudios.com
For a show that prides itself on staying current, last night’s episode was full of pretty dated references. Which might not have been such a big deal, if the show was able to mine those old movies/news stories for good jokes. Sadly, it did not.
And it’s unfortunate, because the initial [...]
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Posted in April 9th, 2008
All right, I’ve been getting my share of crap for ragging on Lost the past few weeks. (Click here and here for those posts if you missed them.) But the thing is, I really love Lost, and I happen to feel that it is a strong contender to be the greatest TV show [...]
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Posted in April 8th, 2008
According to a report in Variety, Short Circuit, the lovable 80’s movie about a lovable robot who comes to life with a lovable Ally Sheedy and an only slightly less lovable Steve Gutenberg, is set to be remade.
Well, it’s about friggin time, and I am totally stoked for this movie. But thinking about this [...]
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Posted in April 7th, 2008
Whenever “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” has come up in nerdy conversations, I always got a pretty big gasp when I admitted that I’d never watched the show. I had nothing against it or anything, I just never got into it. The show debuted in 1997, which was my senior year of high school, [...]
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Posted in April 6th, 2008
Six months ago today, I got married.
Six months ago today, I turned 28 years old.
That’s right, I got married on my birthday. No, it wasn’t so I would remember our anniversary. (I happen to be quite good with dates, thank you very much. ) No, we wanted to get married at Cornell in the [...]
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Posted in April 4th, 2008
I recently watched the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and it occurred to me that even though Disney pulled off a remarkable feat by making one film (Curse of the Black Pearl) based on a theme park ride actually entertaining, they royally screwed up the sequels. Which is a real shame, if you ask [...]
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