So Halloween this year was pretty fantastic. Oct. 22 I judged the annual kids costume contest at Brookfield Zoo. They always invite local reporters to do it, though last year I couldn't due to family being in town. But you get free admission for yourself and whoever you want to bring in exchange for about an hour watching kids and often their ( Read more... )

So my six-year-old HDTV has starting making a buzzing noise. It's coming out of the left hand side and happens even when all audio devices are unplugged. Anyone have any advice on how to fix this or info on a good TV repair person?

So as I've posted before I have bad nightmares almost every night. Yesterday I was up at 7 a.m. because I had a nightmare where I was part of some form of community that was slowly becoming monsters. There was some group of people there offering them awesome things that kept them there and busy. One guy who'd always wanted to be an actor was ( Read more... )

I've been dating Kevin for more than six years but as of July 22 he is officially my fiance. We were friends before we were dating so our first date actually caught me by surprise. He intended it as a date from the get go, I thought it was just dinner and a movie with a friend and actually kept inviting other people to come along. Fortunately for ( Read more... )

I've been an alternative music fan since middle school. The first concert I went to was a huge outdoor affair thrown by my local alternative radio station 94.9 Zeta featuring Linkin Park in a super hot South Florida park. The second was the same show a year later where the headliner was Godsmack and the crowd was a little more intense and I got my ( Read more... )

I recently received this comment on my review of Dungeon Siege III in the A.V. Club:

Samantha Nelson

Mike R

27 June 2011 | 11:40 AM CDT

Is without doubt the best of the AVC games reviewing staff. Her reviews are consistently good and thorough, lacking superfluous diction flaunting and jabs with the sole intent of igniting troll rage.

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A guy in our apartment posted a bunch of pictures and information about his cat in the mailroom. He's had him for about a year but has developed severe allergies. We offered to take him in to see if it worked but it turns out I'm pretty badly allergic to him too. He's a really sweet, between 3 and 4 years old black cat whose currently wandering ( Read more... )

Kevin and I have been watching the first season of The Good Wife together and I can't decide how much I actually like it. On one hand it's well-acted and largely well-written and occasionally surprises me. On another I cannot stand the social conservative agenda being shoved down my throat. Spoilers follow. Consider yourself warned.

I was far from ( Read more... )

So my whole goal of posting more here immediately failed though that's largely due to Electronic Arts sucking. I was supposed to get a copy of Dragon Age II with enough time to play and turn in my review by March 7. Then I learned that they hadn't sent me a copy yet on March 2. I was told I'd get one on March 7 so the plan was to play as much as ( Read more... )

I'm very seriously considering starting a food blog. Now the last time I was very seriously considering doing something food related I got as far as applying to culinary school, got my hours gutted by Metromix, was told that I didn't want to go to culinary school by a lot of professionals and wound up deciding against it. The good thing about a ( Read more... )