Category: the geek life
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Updated entry for Cowboys and Aliens
So I keep getting hits on my blog for people looking for the meaning behind the symbolic hummingbird in the movie Cowboys and Aliens. I didn’t say my interpretations in the original entry about the movie to prevent spoilers, but as the movie is now several weeks old, I updated that post. You can view…
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Doctor Who Commentary: Thoughts on Rory
With the second half of Doctor Who’s series six just two weeks away, I’ve been chewing on a lot of the bits we still don’t understand. Chewing MENTALLY, I didn’t write them down and then start gnawing on the paper. Yet. Anyway, the bit I’m thinking about today was triggered by two things. Thing One:…
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Review of War of the Worlds, or…
…Little Girl Shrieks for Two Hours and Does Nothing Else. So tonight I saw War of the Worlds with some friends (it was DVRed) and while I appreciated the HG Wells source and his wonderful ideas about alien invasion, I didn’t quite get some of the character bits. For instance, the main characters in the…
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Cowboys and Aliens and… humming birds?
Tonight I went to see Cowboys & Aliens. It is exactly what the title says: a movie about cowboys and aliens. I read a Time editorial where the author was singing the praises of literal movie titles, and I have to say I agree that sometimes it’s nice to have a movie that just says…
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Harry Potter Movie Commentary: Deathly Hallows pt 2
Last night I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2, and I think it’s been long enough for me to have processed a few things. My observations are below the “more” cut to contain the spoilers.
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Random Doctor Who Commentary, take 2
Okay, so last night I watched the first two episodes of this season again and think I may have a handle on the “Amy’s Baby” thing, or at least an inkling of where we might be going with it. Spoilers! (Hidden in case you don’t really want to see them…)
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Random Doctor Who Commentary
I put these together in short form last night, but now I’m going to expand them a little… My random thoughts about the Season 6 opener. Some things will be vague so I don’t spoil things if you haven’t seen it. The new monsters are soooo creepy, and I love it. My favorite type of…
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My life in movies
You can learn a lot about a person from the movies on their shelf. For now let’s take a little trip into the movie shelf in my head. Films That Remind Me of Childhood: Back to the Future is still the first movie I can remember seeing in theaters. My “first movie” was Follow That…
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A pirate’s life for me..?
Let’s play a game… Sing along if you know it! “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong!” See it? There you go. The Black Pearl. More photos are found in my photo blog, once they’re uploaded. [update: You can find them starting here, but there aren’t…
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The Perfect Bookstore
This weekend while wandering through an area we haven’t explored much yet, J and I found what might be the perfect book store. The store front looked like any other small (but non-chain) book store, with a huge, light-up sign and a sale rack out front, but the sign on the door said “cell phone…
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