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Category Archives: Signs of life in the cultural wasteland

What the frak?

I am catching up with Battlestar Galactica. I never watched the reboot for a simple reason. I’m no sexist, but Katee Sackhoff is no Dirk Benedict. Just. Saying.
Don’t get me started on Boomer.
Thing is, the Internet and everyone I know who likes science fiction was right. The show is really good. There is a worrying [...]

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Innerspace

It’s always a little weird writing reviews on my personal blog, because I’m well aware of significantly more talented (link to Meredith) people out there who talk about exactly the kind of movies I like to watch. But here goes anyway.
Innerspace is a really, really cool movie. I don’t mean it’s cool because I like [...]

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Hibernation is over

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I took an extended break from blogging for a while. It started out as a break for Christmas, then I was busy, then I ran out of excuses and went on hiatus. Finally, as I sat down today to write anew, it dawned on me that a hiatus is [...]

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Scary treats for Christmas

Hello Internet!! I’ve been offline so much since I flew home for the holidays it seems like I barely know you anymore!

I’ll be back. Until then, Happy Christmas to all. Have a happy New Year while you’re at it; 2010 will hopefully be a good one for all of us.

I’ve emerged from the non-Internet [...]

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Flying home for Christmas… with games!

My flight home usually takes about 20 hours or so, including waiting times at various airports. So, at least once every year, my handheld consoles justify their existence: last year I made significant inroads into Square’s The World Ends with You. I still haven’t finished that game.
For me, travelling requires very particular types of games. [...]

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What price for a Gamecube game on the open road?

I haven’t blogged in a month, which is pretty poor even by my own shoddy standards. Of course, the golden rule of blogging dictates that talking about yourself is boring. So, rather than bore everyone with my time at sea battling pirates and writing the next great American novel only to have the [...]

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Movies and video games.

Last night I went to the cinema and watched a movie.  It wasn’t just any other movie, either, but the excellent Zombieland, which pleasantly exceeded my expectations.  The opening credit sequence was also a delight incidentally, surpassing the pretty cool opening sequences of Wolverine (which was attached to an insipid movie) and Watchmen.

It occurred [...]

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Remaking Thexder and warming my heart.

Thexder is being remade.  This is hugely exciting for me.  The original Thexder is full of fond memories for me.  It was one of the first PC games I played completely on my own after a few years of playing Sierra adventure games alongside my dad.  Thexder had everything:  a robot that turned into a [...]

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Going back: Forza 2

One of the plus sides of almost never finishing computer games is that when I’m stuck between releases I can go back and play a game I’ve left behind. Normally I just get sidetracked before I can finish out the game. Sometimes, as is the case with Forza 2, there’s just too much [...]

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Video Games

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I like writing this blog.  I really, really like writing this blog.  Like every other person out there who updates their blog at erratic and unpredictable intervals however, I get sidetracked.  The only thing I ever really write about or comment on or form opinions about consistently is the [...]

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