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Survivor
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
Yesterday, a fiend friend tossed Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor at me and said it was a book that I had to read. Since Masterpieces is a collection of short stories; I figured I’d humor him and read the book. So far I’m only about 3–4 chapters in and I’m already wishing I’d told him to piss off. […]
High Tea, B-movie and good friends
Posted by Mark | Filed under Dining Out, Movies
Ariesna and I went with a bunch of our friends to Davenport on Saturday. When we got there; we met up with Laura and had a quick tour of her house that she’s been remodeling on her own. It’s pretty impressive; in particular, I liked her bedroom’s ceiling that looked like an oil painting of […]
Tags: Bruce Campbell, Food, friends, Movies
Lord of the Silent
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books
I finished reading Elizabeth Peter’s Lord of the Silent. I really like how she’s altered the relationship between Ramses and Ameila to be more open and more like they’re equals rather than just mother and child; however the more I see Sethos in his new relationship to the Emersons, the less I like it. It […]
Tags: mystery, peabody, Reviews
Philips DVD Player (Model#: DVP320F)
Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews
I recently found out from some friends of mine that our local Target was selling a $50 Philips DVD player that has an extremely simple hack you can use to change the region of the player (more on that later). As an added bonus, this player has component video. I figured at that price; I […]
Tags: dvd-player, dvp320f, electronics, philips, Reviews
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
I finished reading He Shall Thunder in the Sky and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by it. I had been finding Ramses and company to be more an annoyance than an interest in some of the previous books, but in He Shall Thunder in the Sky, they felt more like complete […]
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