Shit.
Here I turn my head for a second, and when I turn back towards the ‘net again, two months have passed. If I’d had a dollar for every time this has happened (or, perhaps more precise, for every time I’ve done this) in the last three years, I’d probably have… enough for a soda, anyway.
So, [...]
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Who doesn’t love ‘em? They’re snappy, they’re challenging to make, they’re imprecise, unnuanced, easy to critizise, and so on and so forth. Gotta love ‘em! :D
Not again!
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about!
One of the things you might not know [...]
Angelic Revelation
One of the reasons why I haven’t been much active online lately, is that I spend most of my evenings watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with one or more of my flatmates. We started about a year ago, when one of them asked me to show him a really fun Buffy episode. I chose “Hush”, [...]
Coming soon!
Posts on or reviews of the following are scheduled to appear shortly:
Enchanters’ End Game,
wherein I reflect on the whole of Eddings’ classic Epic.
Doctor Who, 2006 series,
containing a description of that incredible nerdgasm of a final episode.
The Illusionist,
where much praise for great plots can be found.
Music & Lyrics,
devoted primarily to a statement made by Drew Barrimore’s [...]
Success!
Finally, after close to three months of almost constant webcomic reading, I’m finally ajour with Order of the Stick, PvP, xkcd, Penny Arcade and Ctrl+Alt+Del, meaning that I am now ready to strart reading new ones! Wee!
Which is something I feel like celebrating a bit, as I haven’t really started reading more than one new [...]
… and the first ones of 2008
A few ones more…
Ghostbusters
Do I really have to sum up the plot? Didn’t think so. So, this used to be one of me and my friends’ favourite movies when we were 7-8 years old, and I have no idea how long I’ve spent playing Ghostbusters with sticks or LEGO. The movie was still fun, but [...]
2007 — The year’s movies
All the movies are rated on a scale from 0.5 to 10.
THE YEAR’S FIRST HALF.
January.
1. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Am. 2000) 8.0.
2. Taxi Driver (Am. 1976) 7.5.
3. Batman Begins (Am. 2005) 9.0.
4. Eragon (Am. 2006) 2.5.
5. Underworld (Am./Br. 2003) 6.5.
6. Catch Me If You Can (Am. 2002) 8.0.
7. Sense and Sensibility (Br./Ch. 1995) 7.0.
8. [...]
The last movies of 2007…
I’ve been over a month since I last reviewed any movies, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t watched any since.
America’s Sweethearts
A romantic comedy about two self-absorbed actors who’ve been an item for several years. Has some parodical elements which are worth watching — especially the ones involving Billy Crystal’s calculated PR man — but the [...]
Curses! Or constructing next term’s schedule
I checked my course registration page at NTNU (ooh!) about an hour ago, and much to my delight I discovered that I’ve been registered for not two but three courses this spring, and that these three combined fill my required term quota of 30 study points.
English Linguistics gives me 7,5 points if I pass it; [...]
Wastin’ money
Be that as it may, seeing as I don’t think I’ll fail any of my exams, I decided to take a quick trip downtown, to visit my favourite purveyors of fine leisure activities.
The first of these was Avalon, also known as Gotham. I was primarily looking for John Scalzi’s Ghost Brigades, but it as turned [...]
2007-11-10 — Quote of the Day
“The council of Constance (1414-1418) ended the schism. The three popes were all deposed. The famous eighteenth century historian Edward Gibbon described the case against one of them, John XXIII: ‘The most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy and incest;…’”
— H.G. Koeningsberger,
Medieval Europe 400-1500, [...]
Cracked — Listomania Deluxe
One of my flatmates tipped me about Cracked.com the other day. Lots of fun lists, starting with this one.
Seven things about me…
I just noticed I got tagged with some kind of bloggy pass-it-on by Zhayena, and although I fear it might be a bit old (there weren’t really any apparent key stamps there, as far as I could see), here it is, seven more or less serious facts about me. I usually define myself out from [...]
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
Seeing Red: A Case in the Study of Joss Whedon, Sadistic Genious
This has got to be one of the best worst minutes of television I have ever seen. Observe, if you will, these four moments:
1. Bliss, as Buffy and Xander make up and embrace.
2. Dread, as Warren appears, toting a gun.
3. Grief, and/or anguish, as a stray bullet from Warren’s gun penetrates Tara’s chest, and her [...]
2007-04-27 — Quote of the Day & Bab 5
Morden: “What do you want?”
Vir: “I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favours come with too high a price. I would look up on your lifeless face and wave, like [...]
Television Shows — What Else Is There (Time For)?
Sigh.
I just sat down to plan which TV shows I’ll watch in the next couple of months, and I currently feel as if I’m in the infamous time squize, or whatever one should call it.
Because first of all, I have over half of season 4 and all of season 5 of Angel left to watch [...]
April 15 is coming up…
And with it the deadline for applying for admittance to higher education. Thus I, hopefully finishing my Bachelor in Social Studies (oooh, look at who’s learned the distinction between “studies” and “science” since last time! ), have had to come up with something I’d like to be doing next year. And seeing as said [...]
My 10 favourite albums of all time
I can vaguely remember that when I wrote the purpose statement of this blog, I said some stuff about the appearance of lists. And I feel that I’m sadly lacking in that department, so I take the least original list concept of them all, and try to start amending this failure. Later, I might try [...]
Huh
(Man, I absolutely rock at informative titles! Terje for teh win! I pnz0r U!)
Anyway, it seems as if what all the cool kids are doing these days, is to comment on a list of the 50 best sf/fantasy novels published between 1953 and 2003. And, seeing as I’ve always tried to emulate the cool kids, [...]
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