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Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

What We Let Into Our Homes

Pet Peeve of the Day: Entertainment Weekly. I’m a subscriber, and when I got the latest issue in the mail yesterday, I couldn’t believe my eyes. There’s Kiera Knightly, her backside all exposed and covered with Oscar writings, and James McAvoy, canoodling in the rain, all sexy-like. Hey, EW, when did you [...]

Viking Quest

Pet Peeve of the Day: Predictable comic strips. One of the little games I play with myself is “guess the punchline”. When reading the comics section of the morning paper, I will sometimes cover up the final panel of a gag strip and guess what the punchline is going to be. I only [...]

You Know The Drill

So last night marked the first time that A Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report returned to the airwaves since the start of the WGA writer’s strike. I of course was really needing my Stewart/Colbert fix after so long a dry spell, so I recorded them and watched them this morning.* [...]

All Food Flows From Tom Brady

We took a trip this afternoon to Johnny’s NY Pizza & Pasta in Wheat Ridge, since they were offering a free pizza to anyone who showed up between 11 and 6. It was good. The reason they were doing this is because they said they would if any NFL team went 16-0 this [...]

The Dream Team Returns

No time for blogging today. Although I just wanted to mention that the most awesomest frickin’ show in the universe, The Venture Brothers, returns for a third season of new episodes on Adult Swim in June (apparently). There’s some info about how the season is progressing on creator Jackson Publick’s blog. [...]

Merry Xboxmas (War Is Over)

Comes the news today that Warner Bros, which has been distributing their HiDef movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, is dropping HD DVD and focusing on Blu-ray exclusively. This was apparently a surprise to some, but not to others. This decision has spawned all sorts of pronouncements of doom for the [...]

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