So I’ve been chewing my way through a new game called The Darkness. Trailer below:
The concept is quite an appealing mash-up (sorry for using what has become a journalistic cliche, but it is): A young mafia thug, upon being whacked by his own uncle, discovers that he’s not just a young mafia thug, he’s a young mafia thug who …
Going on three days with the iPhone now. I have actually been stopped on the street and accosted in a bar by curious Apple fanboys, so I feel like I’ve earned my wings as an iPhone user. (Not an iPhone owner, by the way: this is a loaner unit from Apple.) Some further notes:
— I’m a whiz on the Blackberry, but I am still an extremely …
I tried and I tried to transfer a part of my soul into it. Just couldn’t figure out where to stick the USB cable. May have to wait for Pogue’s Missing Manual for that.
My angry, blackened nerd heart does so hate to be warmed. Didn’t I just say something about those damn celestas? Still, it’s a good cast, and somebody appears to have checked the “acting” box in Natalie Portman’s preferences.
This blog is not turning into a Harry Potter blog. I have a rich fulfilling life outside of Harry Potter. I do and say and think lots and lots of exciting things that have almost no connection to Harry Potter whatsoever.
Just back from a screening of Order of the Phoenix. I think I’m probably not supposed to say too too much about this. There’s a lot out there already anyway. But I will say this: it’s quite good.
As much as I like the books, I haven’t really ever been totally sold on Potter as a movie franchise. Maybe it’s because of the revolving …
This post began life as a top-10 list of the finest in nerdwear. Nerds are, of course, a t-shirt-loving people, and the richness and diversity of their t-shirt culture is a beacon for all of mankind. After weeks of sifting through possibilities — yes, I actually devoted a lot of time to this — and a whole lot of jokes about rogues, I …
I am not among the earthly elect who subscribe to HBO (nor for that matter am I among that somewhat larger elite class who own a TV) but these days video content is leaking messily all over the Internet, which is how I caught the first episode of Flight of the Conchords this weekend. The premise: a nerdy folk-singing duo from New Zealand …
They’ve released a little video to announced the start of shooting on Indiana Jones 4. Not a lot of meat to it: no stars visible (that I recognized, anyway), just some drag racing with old-tymey classic cars, and Spielberg and Lucas standing around in the sun looking like the grizzled warhorses they are. The takeaway: making movies sure …
I’ve said elsewhere that I don’t really believe in the myth of the spoiler — the idea that knowing how something ends takes all the fun out of it. But I do hate it when I’m reading something and I can’t remember how it began. And now that the Deathly Hallows — whatever they are — are hard upon us, I find myself thinking: how long has …