Month: May 2012

Okay. We’ve watched the first five shows from Season Two of Fringe. The two episodes we have before us this week are “Earthling” in which we continue to take a break from the meta-narrative and have a little bit of… Continue Reading →

With Tim Duncan and the Spurs rolling through the playoffs, perhaps on track for their fifth title of the Duncan/Popovich era, ESPN’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning” posed the following question to their listeners:  If Duncan matches Kobe’s five… Continue Reading →

“Turn off your brain and enjoy it.” This is advice that I quite regularly find amazingly irritating. Watching a movie is already a passive entertainment… being told “stop thinking during the movie” is, effectively, telling me that the movie is going… Continue Reading →

I brought two books with me on the plane. Game of Thrones, and American Gods. So… what are you reading and/or watching?

I imagine that, this weekend, I’m playing poker. So… what are you playing?

For those of you heading out to Vegas, here are Kazzy’s Personally Guaranteed to be Wrong Playoff Picks: I like the Thunder over the Spurs in 6.  As great as the Spurs have looked, I just don’t know if they… Continue Reading →

Well, this weekend, I am going on my first leave-the-house vacation in… what? 5 years? Maybe 4. It’s only for 48 hours, key-in-the-door to key-in-the-door but it’s a start. That’s actually pretty much the whole weekend for me. I’m excited!… Continue Reading →

The NHL and NFL re-seed teams as they move through the playoffs. The NBA and NCAA basketball do not, opting for a bracket system. MLB, because of its limited playoff pool, don’t really face the issue (though they certainly have… Continue Reading →