The Crüxshadows have a new single coming out! What, you’ve never heard of The Crüxshadows? Well, you must not be listening to Darkwave music. I confess that I, myself, do not listen to Darkwave music, with the exception of The Crüxshadows. However, they produce some excellent tunes which I’m more than happy to slap my …
Category Archives: Opinion
"Wanted"
Jenn and I saw “Wanted” this evening. I’m sure our primary motivation to see this was Angelina Jolie, which shows what sort of literary taste we have. Verdict: Not bad, but definitely not good. It’s a bloody action film with lots of un-ponderable and questionably crazy action bits. Doff your skeptic hat before you walk …
Bad Movies!
I watched In the Name of the King last night, a movie that I was fully aware was supposed to be horribly bad. I still wanted to see it, despite the reviews, just to say I’d seen it and fully experienced its badness. If you feel the same way I did, that you just have …
Further Schooling
Open Question: If you had sufficient time to devote to full-time graduate school, or just full-time study in the Gentleman Scholar type of framework, what would you study? We are assuming here that you haven’t burned yourself out already on, or sworn a blood oath about avoiding, advanced academic degrees. I think I’d have to …
Gales of Laughter
I made a huge mistake at 12:55 this afternoon. I checked the Whatever and saw that John Scalzi is running a contest. He is asking for creative hate mail to include on the rear cover of his latest book “Your Hate Mail will be Graded.” In that entry, he linked to an entry he’d posted …
Random TV Shoutout -or- One of the Best TV Show Episodes Ever
Whoah Nelly! This post has been sitting around since January. Time to get it out the door. Parts are less timely, because Doctor Who season 3 is nearly over, but the meat of the post is still relevant. If you read my blog, you probably don’t need me to tell you that the latest edition …
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Post Office Bullshit
Allow me to preface this post by stating that I believe I’m a relatively smart, modern, with-it kind of person; I have the ability to both accept and give instruction in a manner that leads to good outcomes. However, the post office system confuses the hell out of me. I never know what “level” of …
NASA Images
Blogging is very inbred. I found this awesome post about photography from space through Bad Astronomy, who got it from Whil Wheaton. Go us. Now I get to blog about it. A series of photos from orbit were posted by Alan Taylor at Boston.com. They’re all awesome, but I like this one best. Source: Image …
Indiana Jones IV: Sucking to New Limits
There are no direct spoilers in this review but if you don’t want to know anything about the movie before you see it, don’t read The short and sweet of this review: “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is the worst movie you’ll see this summer. If it’s not, God help Hollywood. …
Why TinyURL and URLTea will Kill The Internet
Because I will never go looking for the link if I get something like this Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@urltea.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that …
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