3. The Impossible Dream (originally published August 24, 2006) The relative anonymity of the Internet has had a strange effect on me. Those of you who know me, know that I can be a snarky bastard in real life. Not a lot of knugs or bromances heading your way. But the second I start hammering…
There are no new ideas, just new ways of freshening the old ones up. At least, that’s how the old cliché goes. While it’s a tenet derived from narrative fiction, the same notion can be applied to videogames – a medium that continues to push the idea of interactive storytelling further with new and exciting…
This was a weird crop of movies. When I made my initial queue way back, I just kept adding movies as I recalled I hadn’t seen them. Essentially, I would just wrack my brain, saying “OK – What else haven’t you seen?” and then just add them as they popped in my head. Since then,…
4. The Rise of Raisinhead (originally published August 28, 2006) Once again, a true life tale that seems made up. Sometime, right around the midpoint of the 90’s, I was granted my Fifteen Minutes of Fame. What I did with it was a shame but my legend will forever be a footnote in New England…
5. The Streak (originally published August 29, 2007) I graduated from UMASS Amherst which means at some point I was naked – in public. This post goes into pain-staking detail to paint a picture of a campus on the edge of revolt – the start of the No Boxer Short Rebellion. Again, I pump up…
Into the Wild is one of the best films I have seen in my entire life. There you go – high praise with no hyperbole. I’m laying it all out there. The truth is, as a movie fan, I try to see a lot of flicks (more so of late now that I’ve reignited the…
6. My Top 5 Summer Movie Memories (originally published May 30, 2007) If you check the archives, I have 11 entries in the My Favorite Things series covering such random topics as Top 5 Movie Endings, Flicks That Made This Guy Cry and Simpson’s episodes, among others. For this piece, I skewed it a bit. To…
After the last installment, with all those “28” titles, I toyed with actually reviewing the original 28 Days flick, but then I thought better of it. Sandra Bullock has always bothered me. Not in the same way that one second of Dane Cook instantly injects me with the Rage Virus but there is something about…
7. Hard Times at Rockland High (originally published February 1, 2006) This one seems like a tall tale but it’s all true. I’ve tried to inject some humor – to really play up the Circus of the Absurd that I found myself a captive of during the swan song of my Senior Year in High School –…
Who’s the jackass who gave us Circus Peanuts? That’s the first phrase that came to mind following our return home from last Friday’s Trick r’ Treat excursion with the kids. Now, as most of you know, we live on a very rural street. 6 houses (give or take a ½ dozen) and one streetlight do…