Archive for September, 2007

Pet Peeves: Magazine Redisigns

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s when a magazine “freshens up” it’s look. ARGH! It seems every time I flip the to the page with the masthead, there’s a new name at the top and 99.99% of the time that new editor has a fresh new “vision.” DOUBLE ARGH! I understand that the [...]

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Saturday’s Mixed Topic Post

Reason 3,549 Why Not Being Legally Married is Problem: Signing up for health insurance at the new job, which does offer domestic partner coverage (which is, of course, great), is made all the more difficult because I have to produce a notarized document certifying that we are domestic partners. If we were legally married, I’d [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Star Trek: The Next Generation

September 28, 1987…Trekkies around the world huddled in front of their TVs to see if Star Trek: The Next Generation would live up to their expectations. Almost uniformly, that initial answer was no. That first episode, “Encounter at Farpoint” was a bit slow, a bit stiff and a bit disappointing. But the series quickly recovered [...]

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Dancing with the Stars, Week 1

Dancing with the Stars opened its fifth season strong on Monday and Tuesday night with a girl vs. guy competition. Monday night the girls brought their foxtrots and cha-chas to the dancefloor and the guys answered the challenge on Tuesday. By far, this was the strongest opening show in the five seasons with no one [...]

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Across the Universe

I really wanted to love this movie. It was certainly one that I should have loved, right? I love The Beatles; I love musicals; I love movie musicals that have big visual style. All of that is present in Across The Universe and yet, as a package, the film didn’t move me one way or [...]

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Happy Fall (almost)

Happy Fall! It is, as regular readers know, my favorite time of year. Crisp air, clear skies… and it means the snow will be here sooner rather than later (unless this year is like last when there was such a sad snow drought). It doesn’t feel very fall-esque today, but there’ve been hints of it [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Hair

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of Hair at New York’s Public Theater. And Geek Out is celebrating because this weekend the Public is doing special anniversary concert stagings of the musical at its theater is Central Park. (I’m sad I’m not going to one of these performances; I just can’t [...]

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A Secret Edge by Robin Reardon

I’ve been trying to figure out what kept nagging me about this book and I finally figured it out: It’s a little too afterschool special. There’s a lot to like about Robin Reardon’s A Secret Edge; however, this kept me from completely embracing it. The novel is about track star Jason Peele coming to terms [...]

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Bluestreak Cycle 2, Week 2

This week has been some good Bluestreaking. My wrist shot is making some improvements. I’m starting to improve my aim finally. I’ve been working hard this week on shooting high in corners, really going for the post usually since that’s what last week’s skills competition involved. It’s getting better. I’m also seeing more often that [...]

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Only one week to go!!!

Ugly Betty premiers next Thursday. Check out the clips below… not only is the cast funny, but socially aware too!!!

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