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EP134: Me and My Shadow
Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews
Without question, Me and My Shadow the best episode of Escape Pod I’ve listened to in quite some time. It’s got just the perfect amount of creepiness to suck me into the story, rather than sending me running for cover. Additionally the level of tech seems entirely believable in that we could theoretically be doing […]
Tags: podcast, Reviews, Sci-fi
Fall 2007 TV Season Premieres
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Reviews
Like most Americans I’ve been a bit more glued to my TV this week than usual due to the return of fresh programming for the fall. Here are a few quick impressions of the shows I watched this week. Monday Chuck: The producers/advertisers of this show are obviously targeting something very close to my demographic with […]
Escape Pod, for shame!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Reviews
As a general rule, I love Escape Pod. The stories (and readers!) tend to be excellent, however this week must be the exception which proves the rule. Maybe it’s because I never got into the whole MMORPG thing but I found this week’s story to be a bad rewrite/adaption of Groundhog Day. The movie wasn’t […]
Tags: fantasy, podcast, Reviews, Sci-fi
Borne Ultimatum
Posted by Mark | Filed under Elsewhere, Movies
First movie had little to no shaky cam. Second movie had enough to annoy me and trigger my wife’s motion sickness. I guess I’ll be renting the third movie some day when the wife’s not around then. Thanks for the warning Les! In response to SEB 30 Second Movie Reviews: “The Borne Ultimatum.” by Les.
The Dark Is Rising
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Movies
The Dark Is Rising sequence is a set of 5 books1 written by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is without question my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acurately, the second book in the series is being made into […]
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