Author: Chuck

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Heart Felt

Movies

We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

iLife

Apple

Piecing together the obituaries and eulogies of Steve Jobs makes it clear that his impact wasn’t just reality distortion
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Something Rotten

Books

Orson Scott Card finally explains what Hamlet’s real problem was all along, but we’re still no closer to finding out why Card is such an asshole.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Choices

Politics

Getting all worked up thinking about years wasted arguing over the wrong thing.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore

Movies

Captain America: The First Avenger is another case of Marvel making franchise movies better than they need to be.
Friday, August 5, 2011

Uncanny Valley of the Apes

Movies

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is eerily like a real movie
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

L-i-t-t-l-e M-o-n-e-y

Apple, Videogames

Final Fantasy Tactics and the bizarro psychology of Apple App Store pricing
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Beyond the Abilities of Normal Humans

Television

Another gripe about the dumbing down of the media
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Autobots! Roll (your eyes) out!

Movies

The Transformers movies are the after-effects of the 1990s disguised as nostalgia for the 1980s.
Monday, June 27, 2011

Forty

Personal

I’m going to need another 30 or 40 years to figure this shit out.
Monday, June 13, 2011

Spielberg & Abrams At The Movies

Movies

Super 8 is a movie about making and watching movies, and it’s best not to know any more than that.
Thursday, June 2, 2011

A Throne for Games

Board Games

A report back from Chuck’s First KublaCon