Archive for July, 2007

Quick Review: The Simpsons Movie

July 29, 2007

Most boring movie….ever.
I wanted to enjoy this movie.  I was a fan of the Simpsons from the very beginning.  I actually would plan around the show to make sure I saw each new episode.  After it went into syndication I would watch every episode again and again, and still enjoy it like it was the [...]

Quick Review: Hairspray

July 25, 2007

I have to admit something first of all: I only saw this movie when I did because a) I had time to kill one afternoon and someone had said they wanted to go and b) Sunshine wasn’t playing in my area.  Now don’t get me wrong, I would have seen it eventually, just not opening [...]

Lounging in a phat Sumo

July 25, 2007

Like everyone else with a blog and one of these in their house, it is time for me to write the “I got a Sumo Lounge in the mail today” post.
After a week or so of waiting, the FedEx man dropped a hunormous -that saying it was so big it was both ‘huge’ and ‘gigantic’- [...]

“We got to get outta this place!”

July 19, 2007

Inspired by a very  late night Saturday/early morning Sunday phone conversation, and by the a multitude of personal changes and issues/epiphanies we were going through, a friend and I got to talking about how we just wanted to get away.  At some point I mentioned I wanted to see the ocean, since it had been [...]

I got an owl post today!

July 13, 2007

Sometimes you’re just reminded how awesome some people are.  About a month or so ago, I got an IM from someone I’ve rarely spoken with over the last five years asking me for my new address because they wanted to send me something.  Today when I got home, this was in a box on my [...]

Nintendo at E3 2007: What I like about you….

July 12, 2007

 
Contained here are, in my humble opinion, the things I liked most from the Nintendo keynote held on Wednesday:
Finally, release dates!  This has been driving me nuts, but we finally got release dates, not just for the big three, but also many other games.  Here are the games with their release dates that I am looking [...]

Quick Review: Harry Potter & the Order of the Pheonix

July 12, 2007

I will not hide the fact that I am a huge Harry Potter fan.  I will also not hide that the idea of the story ‘ending’ in just a few weeks is very exciting and sad at the same time.
HPatOftP (like that?) is my least favorite of the series in book form.  But, even with [...]

My friends take me to the coolest places….

July 12, 2007

On the same day we visited the Georgia Aquarium (see previous posts for more info) we had to take a trip to get, of all things, fish.
 So on the same day a hammerhead shark tried to eat me, I discovered the wonders that is the International Market.
Now, this may not seem like much to some, [...]

Quick Review: Ratatouille

July 12, 2007

I’ve read in other places how this was Pixar’s best movie so far.  I’m not sure if I would go that far but what this movie does offer is very special.  It should be seen just for the characterizations and the animation alone.  It also proves Brad Bird still is a supreme director of all [...]

“The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake…”

July 12, 2007

This past weekend I had the pleasure of checking out one of the biggest new ‘local’ attractions -the Georgia Aquarium…

The first good thing I realized was that the place (as it will be referred to from now on because I hate typing ‘aquarium’ ;) was not as hard to find or as expensive as I thought [...]