From time to time I share my experiences with books, movies and other media. These reviews represent my experiences; your mileage may vary.
6 July 2009
Brian Lynch showed us that 30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppets,
but the Tina Fey comedy is not the only show with bizarre parallels to another.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both released the same year, are eerily similar. The parallels cannot be intentional, but let me present the evidence and you can be the judge.
What follows is a comparison of several major and minor characters in
both the novels and the series describing the roles they play. Could so much similarity be coincidence?
Tagged: Creativity, Films, Humor, TV | 4 Comments »
8 March 2009
I took my fiancée to see Watchmen last night. We were unprepared. I give it ★★★★ out of five. Below sums up my thoughts. It’s violent enough that I cringed. The movie is “patently too adult for … children 17 and under” and the fact that it’s not rated NC-17 is evidence of a moronic [...]
Tagged: Films, Reviews | 1 Comment »
17 January 2009
The only person who could summarize the current political situation correctly is John Stewart—reading the future from 2004.
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28 January 2008
I wrote, some time ago, about [the search for the perfect smartphone][hunt]. Although I didn’t write about it at the time, the [HTC Trinity][] seemed to fill that role perfectly. Sure, I had to get it from overseas, but it was a quad-band phone, right? GPS? Check. 3G? Check. Wi-Fi? Check. Unlocked? Check. True, no [...]
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27 September 2007
It seems like I don’t post before 2 a.m. anymore, but I’m so stoked that sleep can wait. Amazon MP3 has just opened, and it is very cool. I purchased two Pink Martini albums that I’ve been dying to get but was unwilling to compromise on DRM. The download thinger they’ve built is decent, but [...]
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