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For Your Earholes Only — Podcasts Worth Checking Out

26 May

Stewart here…

I don’t know if this is telling of my age, but commercial radio is just uninteresting to me these days.  On the other hand, I discover new music (and relisten to old music) via the Internet.  As a result of my Internet searches, I discovered podcasts about six years ago.  For you not in the know, podcasts are pretty much audio programs on a particular subject, often with hosts who are fans or as become the case recently, with noteworthy Hollywood talent behind them. Continue reading

Ruining a Genre: Popularity of Twilight and Hunger Games

6 May

Life isn’t perfect, in fact often it is quite the opposite. Despite the efforts we make day in and day out, not everything goes our way. That is what makes dystopian novels and movies so intriguing and interesting. Its our world, but slightly off. It gives the possibility of ‘what if.’ Usually it’s something like a war, or sickness, or government battle that changes the world, but it is also something feasible, and that is why it is terrifying. Continue reading

May The Fourth Be With You

4 May

Happy Star Wars Day!

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OK… but what is Star Wars Day? Continue reading

SMALLVILLE Minicaps / Season 1, Eps. 1-4

2 May

Stewart here, and be warned of spoilers within…

The beginning of the Smallville minicaps!  No need to start singing the theme music...

The beginning of the Smallville minicaps! No need to start singing the theme music…

A brief introduction: I’ve always been a Superman fan.  Yeah, he was a Boy Scout in tights, but he was also one of the more interesting characters in comic-dom to me.  You got the immigrant boy who is sent to a land foreign to him, who then grows up with values and moral decency to become that strange land’s hero.  Kind of inspiring to read something like that, and if that college-esque dissection didn’t do that for you, there’s the thrill of seeing someone fly and fight bad guys. Continue reading

Guilty Pleasures- To Sin With TV

30 Apr

I’ve had a lot going on of late, so it’s been difficult to work my way through it all in order to write a post. Apologies. Thankfully, my favorite minion has been on the ball! But I’m pulling it together today in order to start new series of posts- Guilty Pleasures. Like the title says, these are things that I love and adore, but I feel a little guilty for enjoying it. I obviously have a lot of these- you already know of my love for the bad movie but here are some more.

Actually, to ease into it… I’m just going to talk about the TV series from this last season that I consider my guilty pleasures. Continue reading

Garrus Vakarian is my Wingman — Why I Still Love Mass Effect, Part 2

28 Apr

Stewart here… and some spoilers follow in case you asked…

In this installment, I really want to start by taking the time to focus on the squadmates, and if you’re good about it, friends in the Mass Effect series.  In this case, just to keep things light, I’ll focus on your squadmates from the first game.  Everyone’s got their favorites they want with them on every mission, and I know I feel the same way.  Sure I’ll shift them around in necessity of missions, but there are the “go to” squadmates every player of Mass Effect has.  The only downside of the whole thing is the greedy part of me that wants to take more than two for my squad.

So, in no particular order, here are my thoughts on your team from the first Mass Effect (with some spoilers as to the whole trilogy): Continue reading

They say it’s my BIRTHDAY! Cake for ALL!

14 Apr

Happy Birthday to me! Last year I merely shared a pic of me with my nieces and left it at that.

This year… let’s talk about the other important things that’ve happened on my day- Continue reading

FARSCAPE Revisited Mini-caps / Season 4, Episodes 18-21

8 Apr
Farscape season 4 minicaps should've voted on whether to bring a nuclear bomb to this.

Farscape season 4 minicaps should’ve voted on whether to bring a nuclear bomb to this.

Stewart here…and fair warning, some spoilers lie within… Continue reading

My Other Car Is The Normandy — Why I Still Love Mass Effect, Part 1

27 Mar

Stewart here…

Traveling through the galaxy, fighting bad guys, and interspecies lovemaking: what's not to love about Mass Effect?

Traveling through the galaxy, fighting bad guys, and interspecies lovemaking: what’s not to love about Mass Effect?

Look, I’ve made no bones about it to people, but I am just a sucker for big epic sci-fi with spaceships.  And often, that gets rewarded with some great stuff in that category.  Yeah, you got your Star Trek, Star Wars, and Battlestar Galactica (and occasionally your Stargate), but that has been a bit absent in TV as of late and slightly there in movies.  However, I managed to find a great fix of it recently while also rediscovering console gaming. Continue reading

200th post! OMG! What should we talk about???

25 Mar

Glory be! We’ve hit the 200th post! What the heck am I gonna talk about today?

I was recommended the topic of TV shows that’ve hit 200 episodes-

NCIS- it's a formula, but it's a formula that works

NCIS- it’s a formula, but it’s a formula that works

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