I really don't like absolutes. I try to avoid them in general. But I think it's safe to say that I'm done with LiveJournal. Forever ( Read more... )

The Vatican has announced that the trading-card and computer-game versions of Pokémon are "full of inventive imagination," have no "harmful moral side effects" and celebrate "ties of intense friendship." Whether that extends to the TV show, His Holiness didn't say. The New York Post, quoting a Thursday story in The Times of London, says The Vatican ( Read more... )

Some time around 1600, before the term acquired its current meaning, "windfucker" was an acceptable name for the bird now known as the kestrel.

So, the Revolution is coming. No, not the fun kind that will end in my execution. I'm talking about the Nintendo Revolution. So, come a new Nintendo system we can naturally assume a new Smash Bros. game. Don't ask me how to play it with Nintendo's Remote Control Controller (I guess Jess can finally get away with calling it a remote), I'll leave ( Read more... )

After seeing Beauty and the Beast at the Walnut, I decided to research it a bit ( Read more... )

It must be understood that for years my family celebrated Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's house. And, long before I was known for being the one in the family with the video game authoritas, my cousin had each new system as they would come out, on a regular basis (however, he always sold the old ones to pay for the new ( Read more... )

Things I should keep in mind ( Read more... )

Dan Brown needs to buy himself a World Book Encyclopedia, a Discover Magazine, and a basic language translator, or stop claiming that his shit has anything to do with fact. His "facts" don't make sense, or violate some very basic principles of science ( Read more... )

I am grateful that I was born in 1982 if only because it means that my exposure to the 1970s usually includes fast forward and/or chapter skip buttons.

For those of you who have never experienced The Star Wars Holiday Special (broadcast 1978), you have not lived complete lives.

For anyone who doesn't feel that Lucas has raped his beloved Star Wars Trilogy to the absolute fullest extent just yet, he announced that the Trilogy would be "re-rereleased" in 2007...in 3-D ( Read more... )