I have been trying to figure out a way to upload my videos to this site for months and finally I found my solution. Yup, this newfangled doohickey YouTube is my ticket to fortune and glory. And what’s this I hear about a Google on the Internets?
As some of you know, I was a helluva’ [...]
For a sport that single-handedly grandfathered the entire video game bloodline following the release of Pong, tennis seems to get short shrift in gaming these days. Sure, there are a smattering of games released each year – usually timed to coincide with Wimbledon – but compared to the vast iterations of baseball, hockey and of [...]
Continue reading »For some, the Washington political scene can be as wild as the Amazon. Conniving snakes slither through the grass, looking to sidle up with equally loathsome lobbyists. Blowhard senator swine curry favor among their constituency while wallowing in the mud with the special interests. And when poor, defenseless votes are spotted in the great, wide [...]
Continue reading »Timed to coincide with the real world UEFA EURO 2008 competition in Austria and Switzerland, EA has released their latest entry in the soccer field, UEFA Euro. While EA is also the developer behind the venerable FIFA series, UEFA differs quite a bit and offers up its own compelling sports package even if it seems [...]
Continue reading »“I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.”
– G. Carlin
Uh oh!!!
Geez, this has been a tough stretch, with two big-time entertainment legends passing in such close proximity of each other. In mid-June, we lost Stan Winston, which I wrote about the other day. And then, at [...]
Guilty on all counts.
That was the sentence handed down to Neil Entwistle for the brutal execution of his wife, Rachel, and 9-month old daughter Lilly, on a cold January morn in 2006. That was the verdict delivered by a thoughtful jury of his peers who listened to weeks of testimony, weighed the overwhelming circumstantial evidence and [...]
Over the last few weeks, the entertainment industry lost some giants.
Last week, we learned that Geoge Carlin had shuffled off this mortal coil. Though he would probably scoff at the kind words being thrown his way (His famous retort to anyone offering bereavement support - “You want to help? Fine, why don’t you come over [...]
A few LA stories caught my attention this week, none of them requiring the normal thesis I typically offer on these pages, so I though I’d just hit each of them quickly and give you my take. As always, Comment Away below!!!
1. Indiana Jones and the Lucas Redemption
Anyone following this flick’s development cycle knows that the [...]
Continue reading »The old maxim goes – “It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.” And then there are places like Crisis City - the chaotically out-of-control burg at the center of Codemaster’s new Wii release, Emergency Mayhem. The question is - would you want to play there?
With a name like Crisis [...]
Ever since Nintendo took the “virtual pet” craze to the next level by offering up actual digital dogs in their hit DS release(s), Nintendogs, game developers have mined this niche looking to excavate the next hit animal avatar. So, in the years since, casual gamers have been granted a vast menagerie of pretend pets in [...]
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