I love movies sometimes. The new PIRATES movie looks OK. The second one for me was only good because of one of my favorite movie monsters, Davey Jones. If they have a lot of Davey Jones, I might forget otherwise it probably won't be that great. The novelty of Johnny Depp's effeminate pirate has sort of worn off by now. Spiderman3 looks ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying plowing through Battlestar Galacticaas much as I expected. It packs more political/military sci-fi goodness into an episode than many series ever do. It deals with topical issues regularly, such as the use of torture and suicide bombings, without drawing firm conclusions. Good guys sometimes do bad things and bad guys sometimes do ( Read more... )

In the end, the Lost Tomb of Jesus was a lot of hot air. It reminded me of a lot of the UFO or Ghost programs these supposed channels of learning run. For every good show, like Mythbusters, you get a dozen Ghost Hunters. It is a damn shame that real science, devoid of agenda, isn't more popular. Why does reality need dramatization? Every ( Read more... )

I always have to wonder about anyone advocating more government control over their lives. Phrases such of "good enough for government work" exist for a reason. People look at the financial disaster we call Medicare and think Universal Health Care would be a good thing. Speaking as someone with whose wife is from Canada, it isn't all it's cracked ( Read more... )

So much for seeing TOOL in April. I was just thinking that I needed to get Amanda to log on and buy the tickets tonight when they go on sale to be sure to get them, when I log on to the internet and visit a TOOL website, to find out Danny Carey, the drummer, has torn a bicep. He just underwent surgery today, and is expected to make a full ( Read more... )

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Last week my lovely wife and I took in our second movie in a short time, the decidedly different "Pan's Labyrinth." It is a Spanish movie, with English subtitled. Oddly enough it makes the dystopian science fiction "Children of Men" look downright cheerful. That might be an overstatement, but not by much. It is a very good movie, though. It is ( Read more... )

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I've decided to follow baseball a bit more closely this year. I am supporting my childhood team, the Chicago Cubs. They could be the next White Sox, breaking some sort of supposed curse to win for the first time in a number of decades. My enthusiasm for baseball is still limited, though. For a while now Amanda and I have talked about going to a ( Read more... )

Haha. You would believe it. The Colts even got to play the "away" team in Miami, so wore their lily-white uniforms against those Sith-colored Black Bears. If Dungy is a Jedi Master, though, the real Sith Lord is Bill Belichick. Lovie Smith is just too nice for an evil foil. Brian Urlacher could be portrayed as evil, I guess, but I just say he ( Read more... )