Outside of the two main actresses, who manage to rise above the material somewhat, 2 Broke Girls was a bag of suck. All the minor characters are ethnic stereotypes, and the jokes are terrible. "You wear knit hats because of Coldplay?" WTF? I laughed more when I was re-reading Thucydides last week. At least Garrett Morris is still employed.

I survived the great Quake of 2011. It was really not much to talk about. First the room I was in at the Patent Office shook for about ten seconds. Then we all decided to go outside for a while. Then they told us to go home. AFAIK, nobody was injured, anywhere. That's the solid East Coast bedrock for you, I guess ( Read more... )

I never saw this when it was originally on. Best $29.99 I ever spent. Hilarious and moving by turns, a highly improbable outgrowth of the MTV network and "Beavis and Butthead". (I keep hearing that B&B is a little smarter than it looks. I keep not making the effort to find out. I had to endure enough* kids pretending to be Cornholio in high ( Read more... )

Plato, Ion, Laches, Symposium, Gorgias, Phaedrus, Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Protagoras, trans. Benjamin Jowett; Theatetus, trans. Robin H. Waterfield ( Read more... )

I was playing Medieval 2: Total War as France today, when I noticed that one of my generals was named Bureau Chanteur.

Well, at least they got the gender right. And he turned out to be a pretty good general, driving the nefarious English away from Bruges. You go, Bureau.

There's no consensus on the merits of this movie, and I kind of go back and forth on it myself. It certainly has a lot of good moments, but do they make up for the bad?

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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath ( Read more... )

Recap: In a room on the Klingon ship, McCoy talks to the unconscious Spock. He asks for help with Spock's katra, but gets no answer. McCoy admits that he missed Spock, and he says he could not stand to lose Spock again.

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Recap: On the Genesis planet, Kirk and company catch up with Saavik and Spock, knocking out their Klingon guards. Kirk stands for a moment over the body of David, then takes off his jacket and covers his son with it before rejoining the others. McCoy scans the resurrected Spock (who is now unconscious) and confirms that he is aging rapidly, along ( Read more... )

Recap: Kruge beams up to his Bird-of-Prey, leaving Saavik, David and Spock guarded on the Genesis Planet. The cloaked BoP tries a sneak attack on the Enterprise, but Chekov spots it before it cloaks and Sulu and Kirk visually track it by its "energy surge". Kirk orders all power to weapons and shoots the Bird of Prey seconds after it decloaks to ( Read more... )