24

May

2014

Saturday Six – Favorite Redheads

Posted By on Saturday May 24, 2014 at 11:40 am
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Lucille Ball. Shirley Temple. Molly Ringwald. Lindsay Lohan. Alyson Hannigan. Lita. Queen Elizabeth I. Ronald Mcdonald. What do they all have in common? They’re all redheads. Everyone loves redheads. Only about 1% of the population naturally has red hair, so being a redhead has a certain mysterious allure to it. Unless they also have freckles. Then they are a ginger and have no soul.

17

May

2014

Saturday Six – First Concerts You Ever Attended

Posted By on Saturday May 17, 2014 at 8:30 am
To Music, Saturday Six

Last week I talked about how I didn’t get to attend the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Coming Out of Their Shells tour. So this week I thought I’d go through a list of tours that I actually did get to attend. Only music tours though, so no discussing my trips to the Ice Capades, or the Masters of the Universe Power Tour, the He-Man and She-Ra themed roller skate tour (yes, that was a real thing that I actually attended in 1987 when I was 6).

10

May

2014

Saturday Six – First Music You Ever Purchased

Posted By on Saturday May 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm
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So this week marked the 50th release in the Now That’s What I Call Music series here in the States, which is a lot of crappy pop music, going back to 1998. This got me to thinking about all the crappy pop music I used to listen to as a kid, so I’ll embarrass myself and share the list of the first 6 pieces of music (non Pocket Rocker) I ever paid my own money for.

2

May

2014

Friday Five – Spider Man Villains

Posted By on Friday May 2, 2014 at 11:04 am
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So this weekend is the big release of Amazing Spider-Man 2. It looks like it might be pretty OK, but I’m not running out to see it immediately like I was with Captain America. Regardless, in honor of the new film, I’m picking my favorite Spider Man villains this week.

25

Apr

2014

Friday Five – Favorite Video Game Consoles

Posted By on Friday April 25, 2014 at 10:39 am
To Friday Five, Video Games

Well, this ought to we a easy week, as I only ever had 6 consoles in my life. I’ll leaving out my Wii, as I haven’t turned it on in 3 years, and all I ever did with it was hack it into a NES emulator to play Bad News Baseball.

11

Apr

2014

Friday Five – Worst TV Series Finales

Posted By on Friday April 11, 2014 at 11:37 am
To Friday Five, Television

I already listed my favorite TV Series finales. Now, it’s time for my least favorite TV Series finales. Check them out after the jump!

4

Apr

2014

Friday Five – Favorite TV Series Finales

Posted By on Friday April 4, 2014 at 2:05 pm
To Friday Five, Television

Why is it so hard for a TV show to stick the landing and have a satisfying finale? Endings are tough, and contradictory by nature. It should provide enough closure, yet still be open ended to give the sense that these people have their own lives, and possibilities still await for them in the future. A good conclusion should reward us, the viewer, for choosing to spend our time with the characters of a show and give a meaning to our shared experience. A good finale should show that the people we first saw in the pilot episode have grown and changed, along with us, as we watched them. And most importantly, while it should show that characters changed, don’t change them fundamentally just for change sake. Any changes should be organic, and not an attempt to be clever.

28

Mar

2014

Friday Five – Celebrity Crushes

Posted By on Friday March 28, 2014 at 1:07 pm
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Ok, so in a bold move, I’ve decided to jump from same sex celebrity crushes to. . . opposite sex celebrity crushes.

I basically already did this in the Zombie Apocalypse list, but I’ve made some slight adjustments.