It’s spring, when a young man’s (read: me) thoughts turn to Star Wars. I’m taking a break from exam prep, a little heart-attack break, and the best way I know to relax is to divert my mind with some Star Wars thoughts ( Read more... )

Watchmen was an interesting experience for me. Here we have a movie that instilled no confidence in me whatsoever that it could possibly be any good. The director seemed to be a hack, whose "remake the original with slavish lack of creative voice" approach is one I tend to hate (see the Harry Potter movies). The March release date, as opposed to ( Read more... )

Hi there November 10. You didn't honestly think I'd miss you this year, did you?

There was a survey done, I think one of those end-of-the-year things, that asked people to identify the most egregious sins against language, and the one phrase that was singled out as the most irritating cliche out there was "at the end of the day ( Read more... )

So here are my Dark Knight thoughts, cobbled together during lunch hours and so forth, hence the delay…. Also, since I’ve been putting this together randomly in spare moments hard to find, it probably isn’t very coherent, just a set of thoughts fleshed out… sorry about that ( Read more... )

This is the story of the gigantic Millenium Falcon I now proudly own. Read at your own risk, toy haters (and haters of youth, innocence, frivolity, and joy!). ( Read more... )

So I just read this ( Read more... )

Ted Stevens is being indicted!

God, oh God, oh GOD I hope it involves the internet in some way. If nothing else, I hope they used the internet to bring him down.

:D

Yet another preview of the Batman post that will some day be....

Gah, I miss my old profession. I like law and all, but I never find myself struck my Supreme Court cases or recent developments the way some of my colleagues do. On the other hand, I recently came across an article in the Globe by Ty Burr that raised exactly the sort of questions ( Read more... )

I'm slowly, slooowly putting together some thoughts about Dark Knight when I find the time, but for now I just want to say one thing about my prediction for the villain in the next movie.

WARNING -- LOTS OF SPOILERS BEHIND CUT

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