My dog is staring at me. It's in the low 90s here today so I haven't been too interested in taking her out. We've gone up and down the block a few times which adds up to a little over a mile but she keeps going to the door and I keep trying to let her out (we stick her leash in the door so that she can't get away) and then she refuses to move. And ( Read more... )

I've been having a hard time figuring out how I was going to review The Oath. It's so action packed, so high speed, that there isn't a lot of . . . how should I say it . . . Well, I don't have much of a chance to ramble pseudo-philosophically. And while I realize that my reviews have evolved to be more summative in nature to provide more context ( Read more... )

Don't you just love the titles for season 4.5? They're so . . . literary. I mean, we have Sometimes A Great Notion, Blood on the Scales, Islanded in a Stream of Stars, and, today's episode, A Disquiet Follows My Soul. I'm not sure if I should love this title as much as I do because there's something about it that screams emo teenage poetry, but I ( Read more... )

Seriously, if my notes are any indication, season 4.0 is going to be seriously wordy. Because, once again, I filled up another gigantic sticky note for The Ties That Bind, just as I did for Six Of One. And I meant to write this yesterday but my day got a little condensed in the middle there. And now my dog is sitting on the opposite side of the ( Read more... )

I'm back from my whirlwind Saturday hobnobbing with President Obama (who gave a great speech, by the way) and I'm celebrating the Sunday before finals by not studying and, instead, reviewing Collaborators, the unofficial fifth episode of the New Caprica Arc. (Though I suppose we could probably think of the entire third season as the New Caprica Arc ( Read more... )

Oh, end of season two. How I love thee. You've restored my faith in Ron Moore's ability to put together a show. I mean, i wasn't lying when I said that Downloaded saved the season and, much to my general pleasure, Lay Down Your Burdens Part I is following quite nicely (though maybe not as awesomely) in its footsteps. We're only one episode away ( Read more... )

We have definitely hit a poor patch of episodes, haven't we? I mean, season 2.5 has consisted of, up to this point, seven episodes, and I've only enjoyed three of them. Ouch. (Well, that's not to say I didn't enjoy Epiphanies. I was just supremely disappointed in it.) Sadly, I wasn't exactly pleased with The Captain's Hand either, though it was a ( Read more... )

I had my last midterm yesterday, which signaled the end of my hectic week (why do professors and teachers make everything due at the same time in the semester?). Friday, around 2:30 when the bell rings at my placement school, I'll officially be on spring break. Not that I'll be going anywhere but my couch, but still. A whole week with nothing to do ( Read more... )

 Oh, Bastille Day. Bastille Day, Bastille Day, Bastille Day. I want to like you. I really do. I mean, you ask a lot of interesting political and philosophical questions that I like to ponder over and all that. You also feature Laura in a night gown and Lee, much as I can't stand him, looks really good all roughed up in his tanks. But, when it comes ( Read more... )