Category Archives: Movies and TV

Dec
16
2008

The Wire

Watch it. It may be a bit hyperbolic to say this, but the show serves as one of the best social commentaries of the current generation. Even if viewers can’t relate to the police investigative plot or have no interest in the drug-related crime syndicates portrayed, the politics of the government institutions be it police [...]

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Sep
07
2008

Spore Impressions

After ending my very first Spore gaming session a few hours after I startedmany hours after I started I sat back and thought about what I just played. Spore isn’t an easy game to classify so much as it is five different games to classify all wrapped in an incredibly polished, coherent content creation sandbox. [...]

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Apr
28
2006

A Streetlight Shines Through the Shades

Alright, sorry kids. Put down the pitchforks, torches, and hostage kittens. I had been doing so well updating this thing with consistency every 3-4 days, and then I go and so something brash like not updating it in a week. Apologies. Apologies all around.
I came home-home on Monday and, to be quite honest, I do [...]

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Jan
30
2006

A Man of Constant Sorrow

Okay, at this point in time I’ve resolved to finish up that damn Top Ten list on Thursday and Friday night later this week. I simply don’t have the time to do it any of the other nights this week, and currently I just don’t have the desire to do it. Though, you do have [...]

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Jan
25
2006

What’s With That?

I do apologize for my continued procrastination on that silly top-ten list. Honestly, I’ll get around to finishing it eventually but as for now I’m on this relaxation kick where I want to get back from class, go running for a while, maybe lift a few ridiculously miniscule weights, come back, do some necessary homework, [...]

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Nov
02
2005

Ode to Chips and Salsa

Now that my dreaded Tuesday has come to a close (more than an hour ago, actually), I can safely live out the rest of the week with a certain kind of peacefulness that can only be achieved once beating down the opposition that is the colossus of a weekly schedule. It’s a good feeling, to [...]

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Oct
06
2005

Serenity

In what is quite possibly the worst “piece” I’ve ever written, here are my thoughts on Serenity. Hopefully I’ll get the gusto to spice it up a bit (yes, I did just say that and no, I don’t ever plan to again) sometime when I’m a bit more conscious tomorrow. This was primarily written as [...]

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