Archive for July, 2007

The Simpsons Movie: Springfield Never Looked Better

The Simpsons Movie delivers exactly what you would expect from the family’s first foray onto the big screen. It plays just like one big episode, one big, really good episode. Homer dooms the town as he creates a huge toxic mess, yet in the end it’s up to him to save the day. And the [...]

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Saturday Stuff

J.J.’s Trek: A bit of news came out this week about the casting for the reboot of the Star Trek movie franchise. It’s been known for a while now that J.J. Abrams, mastermind behind Alias and the best of the Mission: Impossible movies, is taking over the series with his eye on a December 2008 [...]

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WORST. WEEK. EVER.

Things started out great, then God promptly gave me a cosmic bitch-slap to put me in my place. Not only am I serving on a jury (Is there anything worse than jury duty? The Answer: NO) but this morning, while showering at the gym, I felt something crunch beneath my foot. I don’t wear flip-flops [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

I’ve Geeked Out on a previous Gerry Anderson TV show a few months ago with Space: 1999. This show, from 1967, was shot in Anderson’s trademark Super-Marionation, which many U.S. fans remember most from Thunderbirds.
Captain Scarlet focuses on Spectrum, Earth’s security agency. During a mission to Mars, to Spectrum agents accidentally destroy an ancient city [...]

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Democrats Talk Marriage

CNN and YouTube sponsored a major presidential debate tonight, moderate by Anderson Cooper. Gay Marriage was high on the list of topics YouTube users brought to the table.
With a couple of questions answered on the topic, Congressman Kucinich, Sen. Dodd, Gov. Richardson and Sen. Obama all seem to be for equal protection under the law. [...]

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Pretty in Pink

I played for the NYCGHA’s Pink Panthers last night as a last-minute sub to help them round out their bench. It was a good time. I haven’t played in D8 in a couple months and it was great to play with some friends I haven’t been on the ice with of late. And, I got [...]

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Hairspray

And here is my favorite movie of the summer, at least so far. I am a fan of both the original 1988 John Waters film and the 2002 Broadway musical based on that movie. I’m happy to report the movie musical version is fantastic. Produced by the team responsible for the Oscar-winning Chicago, Hairspray takes [...]

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It’s Harry Potter Saturday!

759 Pages to Go: I, like many, got my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. I’ll be reading it over the next couple weeks. I wish I could read faster, and avoid any spoilers that may come my way but it is the best I can do with my overall time these [...]

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Douglas Coupland’s JPod

I have been a pretty solid fan of Douglas Coupland’s work over the years, especially novels like Generation X, Microserfs and Polaroids from the Dead. I was excited to finally pick up JPod to revisit the world of high-tech workers through his eyes. Unfortunately, this one fell flat for me.
JPod is the story of [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Beauty & The Beast

One of my favorite 80s shows has shown up on DVD this year. Beauty & The Beast Season 1 hit stores just in time for Valentine’s Day and Season 2 was released just last week. It has been wonderful revisiting this series, which I was a faithful viewer of during it’s 2 1/2 year run [...]

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