[Taken by Flickr user jorenerene, and cc-licensed.] I consider myself to be a very private person, and I don’t tend to discuss things of a personal nature here or anywhere else on the internet. It was a sort of open secret that I applied for law schools, and it’s more of a secret secret that I applied twice.1 Many of [...]
The vineyards of Napa Valley in the fall, when I visited in 2007. The title is attributed to Susan Sontag, but I’m unable to find a citation so I can’t be sure. In any case, the quotation is in the center of a collage of travel photos I have on a wall in my room. On Friday, I’ll be traveling [...]
This on DVD today, and because I wrote this and forgot to post this back when the movie actually came out, I figured I might as well post it now. X-Men: First Class has a classic story arc, above average performances, and it does a pretty impressive job of weaving its own story into that of the (inarguably compelling) Cuban [...]
The months of April and May were entirely consumed by insane hours at work, and then recovering from said work. I generally feel like I don’t have time for anything, but it’s not until you seriously do not have even a moment for anything else that you realize how liberating the usual routine can be. I’m finally starting to get [...]
Over the weekend I saw an excellent stage adaptation of Treasure Island, adapted and directed by B.H. Barry. Barry, of course, is a world-renowned fight choreographer, but this was his directing debut. Thanks to some lukewarm reviews I wasn’t expecting much beyond some excellent swordfighting (fine with me!), but I absolutely loved it.1 In addition to solid performances, the show [...]
Well, this is it. Almost two years later, Eugene and I have finally finished our Star Trek Re-watch. This last episode was the most difficult post I’ve had to write. Partly it was just a messy episode to tackle–how do you talk about “Turnabout Intruder” in a way that’s fair?–and partly it’s that I’m so sad to see this go. [...]
This weekend I headed out to PAX East, the Penny Arcade-inspired video game convention out in Boston. I went last year and was put off, but decided to give it another go. Overall it was, well, just okay. Thursday night we headed to the PokeCrawl, a Pokemon-themed bar crawl intended to help you meet some of the people at the [...]
Hello hello! Things have been kind of insane ’round these parts since I got back from vacation. We’ve covered three Star Trek episodes: “The Cloud Minders” (like The Time Machine or Metropolis, only crummier); “The Savage Curtain” (where else could you see Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan wrestle?); and today’s “All Our Yesterdays,” a kind of poor man’s “The City [...]
Or don’t, really. Our re-watch finally came upon “The Way to Eden,” one of the most awful pieces of television ever created. It deserves a special place in your subconscious between The Star Wars Holiday Special and all of the kids-oriented Jim Carey movies. But we’re having a lot of fun talking about it, though, so that helps. I’m still [...]
This week we take another look at immortality and androids in “Requiem for Methuselah.” I really liked it while Eugene hated it, so your mileage may vary. Next week I’ll be escaping the psychological trauma of “The Way to Eden” by heading to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with my mom and sister. (It still doesn’t seem far enough, does it.) It [...]
