About three and a half years ago, Best Buy ran a ridiculous sale on the first season of Veronica Mars. I had been a fan of the show, but I moved to a different state in between the first and second season, and for some reason, I lost track of the series. Which is weird, [...]
Archive for August, 2010
A Time to Kill
August 26th, 2010
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Granted, I don’t remember loving this film even when I first saw it, back when I was younger and probably more easily won over by movies that took on tough issues; but I don’t remember exactly disliking it either. In any case, it either doesn’t stand the test of time or it wasn’t very good [...]
The Police, Who Investigate Crime…
August 25th, 2010
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The institution of Law & Order has been around for 20 years, but I only began watching the various series within this brand a few years back when my wife got me hooked into Special Victims Unit. At this point, I pretty much watch Law & Order (I’m referring to all three series when I [...]
Traitor
August 23rd, 2010
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Mark this down in the column of films that I thought were going to be one sort of movie but turned out to be something else entirely (see also Green Zone). It has been a couple of years since Traitor was released, though I’m reasonably certain this was marketed as a sort of Boune-like globetrotting [...]
Outcasts United
August 20th, 2010
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The University at which I work does a summer reading assignment for Freshmen. It has a noble intention, I think, in that it attempts to provide the entire incoming class with a shared literary experience. The semester starts on Monday, but the Freshmen have already arrived for their various orientation events. Today was meant to [...]
Happy Birthday
August 20th, 2010
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My birthday is today, so I’ve been looking over IMDb’s “Born on this Day” list. I had to go all the way back to 1890 before I found anybody cool: H. P. Lovecraft. If it weren’t for Lovecraft, I might just have been the most awesome person every born on August 20th. I suppose I [...]
Spam-a-lot
August 18th, 2010
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No, this isn’t about the Monty Python play, but rather some of the hilarious spam that I get on this blog. I’ll tell you…these spam bots are getting better. As experienced as I am with the Internet, I still have to read some of these things twice to attempt to determine whether or not they’re [...]
Mosque-Erade
August 17th, 2010
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I feel somewhat compelled to mention this, since I live in Nevada now and Harry Reid recently remarked (sort of) about this mosque that’s slated to be erected in the vicinity of Ground Zero in New York City. His statement was fairly mild, but it feels like a bit of needless politicking, regardless. Give your [...]
Nineteen Eighty-Four
August 16th, 2010
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It has been years and years since I’ve read the Orwell novel upon which this film was based. I won’t speak much to the source material, which suffice it to say is thought-provoking and still relevant (see the way that politicians–sometimes in cahoots with the media–employ talking points and language to twist public discourse and [...]
Do you find it risible?
August 13th, 2010
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Filed under “funniest things ever” is this scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. It loses its punch a little bit if you’ve already seen it, but I still remember gasping for air the first time I watched the film. I suppose part of what makes this so funny is the same reason that outtakes [...]
