Is anyone else here familiar with Papo figurines? They are a French company that makes neat little toys, many of them fantasy- and history-based. I fell in love with them a few years back when I found their female pirate figure at a toystore, and have bought several more since then. Yesterday, I bought the female farmer and the (discontinued) ( Read more... )

Tonight, I went with my friend Anna to see Great Big Sea at the Moore Theater, and ... I wasn't in the right mood for it. You know how, sometimes, you want to go out and have a beer and dance your ass off, and sometimes you just want to roll yourself up in a down comforter with a cat and a cup of tea? Tonight I felt much more like the latter than ( Read more... )

I wasn't planning to write a review of Green Wing, but it seems I am not going to be able to sleep until I do. First, let me start by saying this is a weird show. I have no problem with weird. There were a lot of things I enjoyed -- enough to keep me watching through almost 20 hours of television in the hope of a satisfying resolution -- but there ( Read more... )

I love this movie so much, and I don't even know why. It's such a cheesy chick-flick, which is not my usual at all. But it's total comfort viewing for me, like the visual equivalent of macaroni and cheese or chocolate milk. Sometimes, I just need it ( Read more... )

Reposting my reviews of the second season of Luther. I am still pretty underwhelmed, though there is some better writing than in the first season. What am I saying? This show is dead to me! INDIRAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Spoilers abound....

( Episode One )

I've been watching and reviewing the British detective series Luther for the past week (spectralbovine made me do it!), and I thought I should archive my reviews here before they get lost in the shuffle of the interwebz.

Warning: It turns out I do not like this show very much, Indira Varma notwithstanding. There's a lot of graphic violence perpetrated against ( Read more... )

Why the hell am I reviewing a low-budget monster movie from more than a decade ago? Because it's fucking awesome, that's why! OK, so the props and the special effects are mostly not-great to the point of looking a bit ridiculous, and the plot stretched my suspension of disbelief in some places, and horror isn't even one of my genres, but you know ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, Mark Driscoll, the preaching pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, released a new book about marriage this past week, co-authored with his wife, Grace. There have already been several very thoughtful reviews of this book posted around the web by everyone from avowed feminists to complementarians. Here are a few of the best ( Read more... )

Tonight was just awesome. I've been to see Jason a few times now, but this was one of the best. He really went all-out to make this show something special. The Moore Theater was actually a slightly smaller venue than I was expecting, and it was completely packed with folks who clearly like to have fun with their clothes shopping and personal ( Read more... )