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Month: February 2008

  • Namaste

    Via the RiffTrax blog, Bill Corbett shares a relaxing meditation with us all. Learn it, memorize it, and go in peace.

  • Literacy 2008: Book 3: Jingo

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    Book Jingo by Terry Pratchett In a series 21st in the series of Discworld books. Synopsis The lost island of Leshp suddenly rises in the middle of the ocean, sparking a war between the nations of Ankh-Morpork and Klatch over ownership of the new land. Sam Vimes and the rest of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch…

  • You have 21 years to comply

    I couldn’t tell you exactly why I never got around to seeing RoboCop until tonight. I vaguely remember at the time being scared off by stories of how ultra-violent it was. Later, I just dismissed it as being another 80s action movie. After that, I put it in the same category as Total Recall —…

  • Confirmed Awesome

    Thursday’s episode of “Lost” was called “Confirmed Dead” and correct me if I’m wrong, but by my count it had (spoilers!): Four new characters with immediate flashbacks An irritable Asian ghostbuster who uses a dustbuster The sunken, decaying corpse of Greg Grunberg A through-the-body bullet wound with a tie-in to Locke’s continuity Three cases of…

  • Auteurism

    Or, “Gore Verbinski’s Going to Make You His Bitch.” If you want to see me start channeling my inner crotchety prospector hankerin’ for a feud, there’s no easier way than making the claim “videogames need to adapt the auteur model from movies!” It comes up fairly frequently on the internets, and I’m usually able to…

  • Cease to resist going to Best Buy

    I really had no interest in getting Rock Band (warning: site has noise, and changes your browser window size). I skipped the last two releases of Guitar Hero, since the songs past medium difficulty stopped being fun for me. With Rock Band, at the time all the cool kids were getting it, it was impossible…

  • Unchained Malady

    Seems like I can remember being laid low with the illness not so long ago — why, as a matter of fact, this very blog tells me it was just over a month ago. Seriously, what the Hell, cosmos? I thought we had an arrangement: in exchange for your staying out of my business for…