I look forward to reading the rest of Steve Hyden’s six-part(!) series about his experience being a life-long R.E.M. fan over at the av club for a lot of reasons, but mostly because of the first installment’s uncanny ruminations about the experience of being “a fan” in the way that only a certain type of […]
It’s been a while since I talked about the fish, but over the last weeks and, actually, months, I’ve changed things up a bit, and I’m currently rather excited about my little box of water. First, it actually is back to one box of water again. Since I “adopted” a family friend’s oddly stocked fish […]
I’ve been sick. That’s pretty much it. I spent most of Friday and Saturday crashed on the couch watching old movies in between bouts of unconsciousness. I did get out a little bit despite the circumstances; I supervised an after-hours school field trip with the eldest to see children’s author Graham Salisbury speak at an […]
Through the magic of Netflix Watch Instantly, I watched Hackers last night. Despite it being a favorite of a long-time friend, I’d never managed to see it before (though I imagine it had probably been on in the background somewhere at some point or other, because my wife was sure she’d seen it with me). […]
Prolific comics blogger Chris Sims recently posted his thoughts on my current video game obsession, Skyrim, and finds it wanting. He admits that it’s fun to play, but unfocused; he finds the choices presented to the player, choices that should really define the way the sprawling story plays out, have very little impact. For example, […]
I really can’t imagine having the time to pull something this OCD-nerdy together, but there’s somebody out there who has built a comprehensive timeline of the Marvel Movie Universe. By spending hours and hours scouring DVDs with a finger on the pause button to grab dates from bakground newspaper pages and calendars, this guy has […]
Apologies up front for the almost-certain crap quality of this post; I woke up this morning feeling, shall we say, pretty awful, and that will probably color just about everything I produce throughout the day, at least. So, sorry. Still, stuff and adventures and things happened this weekend, so I feel I ought to chronicle […]
Presented forthwith are several short notices of a personal nature. Feel free to enjoy: – Thanks to the kind reminders from my amazing convention friends via the various social networking services, my head’s kind of been in con space all week. As it stands, there are only 36 hours or so until I arrive at […]
