Snow Sharks

Posted January 9th, 2010 and filed under media.

Calvin and Hobbes wasn’t in the Sunday funnies when I was young enough to be reading the Sunday funnies, so I sort of missed that whole boat. Every now and then I’d see a strip, though, and I always thought it was a great comic. (The “snow sharks” one was my favorite.) Someone gave me… Read more »

The Long Halloween

Posted February 17th, 2009 and filed under books.

I have been reading Batman stories for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid I used to gorge myself on Detective Comics, Batman, and — my favorite — The Brave and the Bold (which was back then always tales of Batman and Superman teaming to fight the bad guys). One of… Read more »

Enough with Your Pancakes

Posted September 16th, 2008 and filed under comedy.

Every day a new city, a new IHOP. And yet every night the dreams get worse. I ply the highways, a nervous eye on the rear-view mirror, the back seat piled with stolen menus.

Weekly Media Recap

Posted August 19th, 2008 and filed under books, movies.

Recent Movies: Pineapple Express ***1/2 Gone Baby Gone **** Bottle Shock ** (based on the book Judgment of Paris) Gone in 60 Seconds *1/2 Currently Reading: Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai, by Ben Mezrich Nature Girl, by Carl Hiaasen How… Read more »

Dark Knight

Posted July 18th, 2008 and filed under movies.

My wife and I went to see The Dark Knight at 12:45am. I am a huge Batman fan and this movie did not disappoint. It was just a hair under three hours long, and — aside from the fact that I knew I was going to be late to work today — I didn’t want… Read more »

All the Baseball Games Are Lost

Posted March 3rd, 2008 and filed under media.

“All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away.” — Charles Schultz on Peanuts from Caterina

Pricey Spidey

Posted April 24th, 2007 and filed under movies.

Is Spider-Man 3 the most expensive movie ever made?

Superman Returns

Posted June 29th, 2006 and filed under media, movies, My Life.

My biggest fear was that they were going to screw up the music. John Williams’ score in the original movie made the film. I mean, the music was the movie. There couldn’t possibly be a movie without the duh, duh-duh-duh, da / da-da-daa. The first time I had any idea that there was a new… Read more »

Snoopy

Posted October 7th, 2003 and filed under comedy.

Peppermint Patty

Posted July 24th, 2003 and filed under comedy.

I find it completely incomprehensible that Peppermint Patty refers to Snoopy as “a funny-looking kid with a big nose.” How could she possibly not recognize that he is a dog?!