September 2008
This is a list of posts published in September 2008.
Netflix Notes - ‘Night of the Living Ed’ Edition
True confessions time.
I’ve never seen The Godfather. Not I. Not II. I did see a little of Part III and what I saw, I REALLY liked. (Hey, where’d that horse head come from?)
Seriously though, Ed Humphries, the dude who toiled away for a number of years as the UMASS Daily Collegian’s Siskel (we already had [...]
Theater of War
If I ever go to war, I know exactly who I want in my fox hole.
Michael Crawford.
That’s right, the legendary actor who thrilled audiences and blitzkrieged Broadway with his iconic turn as the Phantom of the Opera. Granted, I’ve never seen the show and the last Playbill I paged through was for The Backyardigans: Tales [...]
Lab Results
A couple of days back, I posted a fairly personal piece recounting my delight in Colin’s recent discovery that he has two best friends living right under his very roof. That article was born from a picture Andi took of Colin enjoying a moment’s victory at having successfully lured Abby into his bed. (Had we [...]
Continue reading »The Road to 300
I’ve got to come clean. Last year, sometime around Christmas, I hit the official 200 Posts mark at this site. I started this gig in late January 2006 and I recall being sufficiently impressed that I had written 200 posts in less than two years. Intoxicated by my middling success, I offered up the following [...]
Continue reading »A Boy and His Dog
This marks the 289th full-sized post on this site since I started scribbling away in cyberspace a little less than three years ago. That means we’re 11 articles away from the big Three Hundred – the day I effectively pull the plug on this whole sorry operation.
289 Posts with an average length of 3-4 printed [...]
East Meets West
Over the weekend, my cousin got married for the second time in as many months.
Check that – what I mean to say is that he celebrated his recent nuptials for the second time in as many months. In early August, my cousin and good buddy Jason married his paramour of four years, Karen, in a [...]
Off He Goes
When I was five years old, my family resided on the Mean Streets of Everett, MA. At the time, I was enrolled in Kindergarten at the Hamilton Elementary School – a brick and mortar classroom that sat sentinel at the base of a large hill that stood between my home and the school’s foundation. There [...]
Continue reading »September 11, 2008
“Where were you when…”
Growing up, I always heard that same question (usually connected to recounted tales of JFK’s assassination) and never quite understood the heartache a simple line of inquiry could implant in a person.
On September 11, 2001 – at the tail end of my twenties – I suddenly learned with great gravity how hard [...]
Braid - Xbox 360
Braid is the single most important game released this year.
Ever since technology caught up with our hobby and evolved it from simple beeps and blips and tests of hand-eye coordination into a medium capable of spinning a decent yarn and taking the player away to awe-inspiring worlds of wonder, the argument of ‘Games as Art’ [...]
NHL 2K9 - Nintendo Wii
With its unique ability to offer players more tactile control over their onscreen avatars, thus further selling the illusion that you’re in the game, the Wii has been a prime destination for sports titles. This is the system that was arguably sold based on the strength of its pack-in Sports-themed minigame compilation – and since [...]
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