Two One Wo/Man Shows
I went to a One-Woman show last night. It was Murmur Theater Company’s production of Pamela Gien’s The Syringa Tree. The woman who played 24 characters was Kelli Chaves (she was the one who played Jane Bennet in the Haymarket Theatre’s Production of Pride and Prejudice, if you happened to attend that). It was directed [...]
Gollum and Gifts
Some people did a complete psychological and psychiatrical diagnosis of Gollum’s problems for the British Medical Journal. It’s a pretty funny read. Also, in case you were ever foolish enough to think that those offers for free iPods could be legitimate (what idiot would think that?), you should probably read this article from the New [...]
Pure Fantasy
In case you’re interested, someone has created a list of every deviation Peter Jackson took in his movies from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. I’m glad that I’m never this obsessive-compulsive. Furthermore, Apple’s Trailers site has recently put up a two minute trailer of the upcoming Chronicles of Narnia movies, which will begin [...]
Merry Christmas!
This is the original version of Charles Wesley’s poem that was subsequently turned into the hymn “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing.” The man seriously knew how to write poetry. Hark, how all the welkin rings, “Glory to the King of kings; Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!” Joyful, all ye nations, [...]
Addiction
This time, it wasn’t my fault. For the past few years, I have started a more shameful Christmas tradition than spiking eggnog: endlessly playing the current “NCAA Football” video game for Xbox (now in its 2005 edition, although it uses the season schedules and players from the 2004 season). The first year my brother and [...]
Slashdot Recap
Slashdot has had several really good (and common-interest) posts over the past few days. I was simply too lazy to post each of them individually, so here is a little of the “best-of” from the past week: History of Star Wars Video Games–Need I say more? Off-the-Record Messaging released, which includes (for the first time, [...]
Male Bond-ing
(Nervously blogging with my laptop actually on my lap.) Some highlights from Sunday evening’s Goldeneye Party and Monday’s Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Marathon (yes, we watched every extended edition version in one day, one after another): On Sunday night, taking a break from murdering each other on the Nintendo 64 console in order [...]
Ben's Soulmate
We need to watch Ben so that he doesn’t get to this point. I suppose, though, that it might already be too late.
Public Service Announcement
For those of you interested, the Boy Meets World Episode where Cory and Topanga get married will be on tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. Central Time on the ABC Family Channell. I’m only reporting this because, if you were used to watching the series on the Disney Channel, you would probably not have seen this episode [...]
Embarrassment
Tonight was Dining Service’s annual Christmas Dinner. I probably shouldn’t have gone (I have a Christmas party for ASUN where there will be another full meal; I should note, though, that I didn’t eat much already), but Dining Services makes the best prime rib in the entire world. So, after they cut me off this [...]
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