I enjoy seeking out negative reviews of movies I like. Reading dissenting opinions encourages me to think harder about the things I enjoy, and enables me to strengthen my opinion. Also, by learning why others might dislike movies I enjoyed, I can better hold conversations with people whose experience does not match my own.

So I've been reading some ( Read more... )

I have a tendency, in really long blog posts, to leave out stuff that I wanted to write about. I think it's because there are too many things to keep track of? I should really just write more frequent, shorter updates.

Anyway, remember how I wrote about going to see The Avengers, and then pretty much immediately proceeded to talk about Free Comic ( Read more... )

Blah blah, I still owe you a Gallifrey One writeup, let's move on ( Read more... )

So I wound up getting sort of rained out of my planned birthday celebration, but I wound up doing the whole thing a week later. Krystal and I went with Finn to Hollywood Forever Cemetery and spent a few hours there admiring famous people's graves. I learned that geese are easily intimidated. You see, they were acting aggressively towards us and ( Read more... )

My family's beloved cat, Missy Doodle, died this morning.

Missy was fully grown, probably between two and five years old, when we adopted her about thirteen years ago. Lately her age had been showing. She was moving slowly, had trouble climbing and was hesitant to jump. She also completely lost her hearing. If you walked up behind her and touched ( Read more... )

I'm not a very social person. When left to my own devices I spend most of my time alone. When I'm alone I tend to be on the internet. (Though sometimes I read a physical book.)

For a long time I didn't understand online interactions with other people. That is to say, I didn't understand why people wanted to have online interactions with other people ( Read more... )

Remember that time almost two years ago, when I wrote this whole long entry about Jonathan Rosenberg's comics and how much they mean to me?

When I wrote that, Rosenberg had just launched Scenes From A Multiverse, and I was hopeful that this new comic would find success and avoid some of the problems that made Goats hard to follow in its online ( Read more... )

If you saw last week's 30 Rock, then you already know that they introduced a figure called "Leap Day William." He's like Father Christmas, but for Leap Day! And there are all sorts of silly facts about Leap Day William mythology, and even a The Santa Clause-esque movie starring Jim Carrey.

As often happens, I found myself wishing I lived in the 30 ( Read more... )

I was going to call this entry "The State of the Robynne." Two weeks ago, when I really started thinking that I needed to post something, I thought that would be a good title. Kind of fun, kind of ironically overstating my importance ( Read more... )

The second season of Sherlock started yesterday! It's so good, so indescribably good. I don't want to say anything else because spoilers. But oh god I love this show.

I watched it twice yesterday, once with my sister and once with Scott, Ivy & Winter. Ivy figured a bunch of things out that I didn't, because she's great at stuff like that. And after ( Read more... )