Category Archives: Movies/TV

The Taking-A-Break Post

3/25/2010 – 3:28 pm

Major League Soccer kicks off tonight! Check it out tonight at 8:30 CT on ESPN2. Last year’s expansion success story the Seattle Sounders take on this year’s new boys, the Philadelphia Union. Will it be any good? Only one way to find out. This morning I finished a draft of my questions for my prelim [...]

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US (yawn) vs Honduras and Other Footie Thoughts

7/9/2009 – 8:54 pm

The USMNT B-team beat the Honduras B-team 2-0 last night. The first half was dreadfully dull but the second half was more watchable. What this tournament has proved thus far (in the opening two games for the US) is that the talent pool is not deep. Granted, ten years ago US Soccer could not have [...]

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Dirty Dealings with Dish Network? and Differences with Directv

7/8/2009 – 6:39 pm

As mentioned previously, our Dish Network DVR crapped out back in May and we decided to switch to Directv, largely because Dish Network had also dropped GolTV and because Directv had a good promotion going. I had already called to get a new receiver but Canceling was easy enough. Or was it? The phone rep [...]

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The Deadliest Meathead

6/5/2009 – 10:10 pm

I have watched more television in the last month than I have in God knows how long. Of course, the Dish crapped out with some stored up highlight reels and a few games I meant to watch, and by the time we got Directv installed, the European season was pretty much over. Because there are [...]

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The Ol’ Switcharoo

5/22/2009 – 4:47 pm

Well, we finally dropped the ax on Dish Network in favor of Directv today. For the second time in about six months, the DVR hard drive crapped out and when it craps out, it craps out spectacularly. Last time we got about another day’s worth of television in before the whole thing died. This time, [...]

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Movies! Movies! Movies!

3/24/2009 – 9:27 am

I spent a good amount of time over my break watching a bunch of movies, most of which aren’t new. Here’s the list: Religulous, The Dark Knight, The Simpsons Movie, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The Future is Unwritten, and last night, Watchmen in IMAX. The Good If you like Bill Maher’s brand of [...]

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Not A Fall Guy

11/18/2008 – 1:59 pm

We were asked to watch Tarsem Singh’s The Fall for one of my classes and I have to say I was pretty disappointed with it. First off, I don’t think it does much new as a nested story of a hospital patient telling a story to a little girl and (predictably?) the story changes in [...]

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I’m Not (Completely) There

8/18/2008 – 2:24 pm

First things first, I have surprisingly little to say about the opening weekend of English football action. Of the four title contenders, only Chelski sparkled and against what was on paper the toughest opponent. Liverpool defined the word “rusty” as did Man Ure, in fits and spurts. Really, it takes about 8-10 games (roughly a [...]

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Well, Damn

8/16/2008 – 5:34 am

Nothing is worse than waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep, except for waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep and then finding out your satellite service has dropped all the stations carrying Spanish soccer [...]

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How To Do It

7/10/2008 – 8:24 am

Just a quick note to yesterday’s sandwich artist at Subway: you may have the purple hair, piercings, and tattoos, but if you were really punk rock you would have let me get two different 6″ subs for the footlong-for-$5 deal, you corporate puppet. I caught the matinée ($6.25 for a matinée nowadays?) of Iron Man. [...]

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