Month: April 2011

So… what are you playing? I beat Portal 2 (single player) last night and was blown away by it. The complaints that it was too short have some merit, I suppose, but I found myself instead thinking “holy cow… that… Continue Reading →

This was bound to happen. I find a $16 dollar bottle of wine on sale for $12 and I get home and look it up on the ‘tubes and find that it normally sells for $10. In any case, I… Continue Reading →

Thursday night yawns before me. I got nothin’. Sorry.

I have always hated Hulk Hogan. Since I was a little kid, I never liked him. I never understood why everybody else cheered him. I wasn’t a smart mark or anything like that when I was a kid; I had… Continue Reading →

I remember when _The Cave Of Time_ (buy it used) came out. This was the first “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, to the best of my knowledge, and I had never experienced anything like it before (I mean, sure, I… Continue Reading →

This post contains major spoilers for Chuck (Seasons 1 and 2) and Dexter (Season 1), 187, Blood Work, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s _The Door_, and god knows how many other books/shows/movies. It also has middlin’ spoilers for Se7en. (But Chuck and… Continue Reading →

So… what are you watching/reading? I’m finally going to start watching Season 3 of Burn Notice now that Maribou and I have hammered out that this show is best enjoyed alone… as opposed to carving out time where we can… Continue Reading →

So… what are you playing? I’ve been playing Might and Magic Clash of Heroes on Xbox Live to the exclusion of anything else… Even Portal 2! Puzzle games are my kryptonite, I tell you what. If you enjoyed Puzzle Quest… Continue Reading →

This week, I went to the wine guy to ask “Whatever happened to MJ Vallejo?” because, well, MJ Vallejo was my “college wine” and I wanted to see if it had improved any. The guy immediately said “Spanish, right? It’s… Continue Reading →