For this article I thought I would go over collecting a popular subset of unlicensed NES games, those being the games made by the Tengen company. But being the type of collector & historian I am, I’ve decided to first provide a little bit of history about the games. If you don’t care about the history, feel free to scroll down past this next section. A Little History: Believe it or not, [...]
Fans catching Baseballs: The Good, Bad and Ugly from YouTube
So last week we were treated to a hilarious celebration by a fan who busted out the “sprinkler” dance as a celebration to his home run catch. This got me thinking about some of the cool fan catches at stadiums I’ve seen in highlights over the years. So I figured, sharing some of my favorite… and not so favorite… catch attempts would be a cool light way to kick off articles for this [...]
Community – “Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts”
When “Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts” was being shot in mid-October 2011, the thought process behind what the episode will fulfill was the simple ‘return from Christmas break’ episode. Something simple and light, following in the footsteps of “Investigative Journalism” and “Asian Population Studies”. Of course, what defines simple for Community is different from other sitcoms, and there’s big moments for characters and story arcs abound, but this is besides the [...]
Trying to Kinect with 2012
A very amateur and unscientific video game weight loss experiment. 2012 sucks. No, not the movie. By definition any movie that both shows Los Angeles being destroyed AND features Danny Glover as the President of the United States can’t suck. What I mean is that nothing has gone the way I wanted this year. Enough to tax my mind to the point where I decided I wanted to transfer some of the [...]
Journalism, not public relations
Drew Brees. What more can you say about the New Orleans Saints quarterback? The guy epitomizes what those of us with children hope our kids become. Not only is Brees successful and will probably go down as one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game, but he does everything with class and is one of the most respected people in his profession. Monday night, on the national stage, Brees broke [...]
Hugo
For all its faults, and there were many, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island at least carried a sizable amount of cinephilic wonderment; citing its extreme stylization hardly does justice to its wealth of allusions, revelry in old-fashioned modes of narrative, and general love of classical Hollywood, from silent-era expressionism to Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor. Hugo, the acclaimed filmmaker’s first foray into the family movie market, represents a noticeable step forward. Not content with a stylish [...]
“I’ve never taken the high road, but I tell other people to. ‘Cause then there’s more room for me on the low road.” - Tom Haverford,