Monthly Archive for: ‘January, 2008’

• Ponderings For 2008-01-30

  Posted Jan 30 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  For you pet lovers that travel a lot Wanna play with some of the experimental Google search features? Here’s a tour of some of the cool new stuff coming (the timeline view is kinda nifty) Looks like we might have some Veronica Mars comics coming …

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• Ponderings For 2008-01-29

  Posted Jan 29 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  So, how does one know they live in the Chicago area? When in a matter of hours it goes from 50 degrees down to 0 degrees (and still further to fall). Not only that, winds are whipping up to nearly 50 mph with blindingly brutal …

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• Ponderings For 2008-01-28

  Posted Jan 28 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Today was the 22nd anniversary of the Challenger disaster. The previous generation will always remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, or when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. For me, my earliest “world event” memory that stuck is of the Challenger disaster (I …

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• Ponderings For 2008-01-27

  Posted Jan 27 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Go, Amazon, Go… Huge congratulations go out to Juno for passing the $100 million mark (well, worldwide, but so little of that is foreign that it’ll roll past the domestic $100 million mark any day now). That’s a big achievement for a low-budget, indie-style movie …

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• Ponderings For 2008-01-22

  Posted Jan 22 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  OK, the big news of the Oscar nominations for today got a bit eclipsed by the surprising death of Heath Ledger. Sad to hear of that, of course. It’ll be a bit weird watching The Dark Knight. Anyway, as far as the Oscars go, I …

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• Ponderings For 2008-01-21

  Posted Jan 21 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  There’s a possible light at the end of the tunnel for the WGA strike. After the DGA came to an agreement, the WGA is now in informal talks again. Here’s hoping… Holy cow. Check out the (possibly) soon-to-be-built Crystal Island in Moscow. It’ll be the …

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• 2007 Film Retrospective

  Posted Jan 21 2008 in Entertainment with 0 Comments

  OK, my 2007 retrospective list is finally finished and published. It can be found here.

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• Ponderings For 2008-01-20

  Posted Jan 20 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  The Disintegrator: The coolest thing I’ve seen in a great long while. That video has some truly awesome moments. The RIAA web site has been hilariously hacked… Looks like the excellent Cloverfield is on the way to the record books for a January release (and …

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• Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise & Fall Of The WB And UPN

  Posted Jan 20 2008 in Book Reviews with 0 Comments

  I wanted to do a rare thing on this blog: a book review. I briefly mentioned once or twice before that I was reading this book called Season Finale. I had picked it up while browsing the media/entertainment section at Borders a little more than …

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• Cloverfield (10/10)

  Posted Jan 20 2008 in Movie Reviews with 0 Comments

  Loved it. Absolutely loved it. As the first 2008 movie release I’ve seen so far, I can’t just say it’s the best movie of the year so far, cause it is by default. But it will remain near the top of my list throughout the …

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