I considered starting this earlier to include all the wildcard teams, since they're legitimate postseason players, but with Game 163, there would've been less than 24 hours before some poll options became obsolete. Therefore, they're off the list, but I added a consolation poll ( Read more... )

The Dodgers made it official today and became the 2013 National League West CHAMPIONS. Yes, that does explain why around 4:00 PM PDT today, you felt a sudden wave of relief and rightness in the world. It does.

Excuse me while I happy dance around my apartment all evening.

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These...are weeks old. Other things have happened during that time that I failed to record. I will regret this.

#71: Blue Jasmine - A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love... [imdb]

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Oops. Well, better late...

#69: Elysium - Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. [imdb]

( Discussion, features spoilers )

Even though I had a four day weekend for the Fourth of July, I didn't end up seeing any movies in theatres because the new films that weekend were rather uninspiring. I tried to catch Mud in a second-run theatre but the times on the website did not agree with the times at the house, so that failed. So here's something I watched on TV.

#67: Once - ( Read more... )

I tried to slow it down to save up for the upcoming long weekend, but this weekend's heat wave turned my apartment into a sauna in the afternoon, so...movies, it was. Actually, the first one of these was last weekend.

#64 - This Is The End - While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are ( Read more... )

It's fully summer movie season now, which means lots of options on weekends. I should probably save more for the Fourth of July weekend when that's pretty much all I'm going to do...

#62: Man of Steel - A young itinerant worker is forced to confront his secret extraterrestrial heritage when Earth is invaded by members of his race. [imdb ( Read more... )

#58: Epic - A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours. [imdb]

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As I mentioned last time, my movie previews site has been paying dividends. The latest is a movie I'm glad I got to see for free, because I would have paid for it otherwise and that would have been a mistake. I cannot recommend:

#56: Now You See Me - An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists ( Read more... )

Six months ago or so, I signed up at gofobo.com to get early movie screenings. Up until this week, I'd only had one or two invitations and none of them were interesting/possible to see. This week, I got two and made both of them! And then I saw a third movie on Friday, unrelated to the preview site. :-D

#53: The Way, Way Back (preview) - Over the ( Read more... )