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Super 8: A Review

June 13th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

Super 8 is a fun-filled and action-packed superhero summer blockbuster. After eight superscientists are exposed to experimental hyper-nano radiation, each one manifests incredible superpowers. There’s Trickle, with the power of incessant dripping, Luminesca, who can always set a room to mood lighting, The Leveler, bringing your frames to straightened justice, Standoffish, always keeping evil to one […]

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Exterminated

June 10th, 2011 | Posted in BBC, Daily Rants, TV

  I’ll be honest, when I first started watching Doctor Who reruns as a kid, I was a bigger fan of the human(ish) villains than the monster types. The Valeyard, the Rani, the Master (RIP Anthony Ainley), these characters were fascinating, oozing schemes out of their ears, a true mental match for the Doctor, right […]

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We’ll Miss You Sarah Jane

April 21st, 2011 | Posted in BBC, Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact, TV

I began my lifelong love affair with Doctor Who in ’96, right after the made-for-tv movie aired and I was twelve years old. It didn’t take me long to discover old episodes of the show would play every Friday night from 10 to midnight. It wasn’t a school night so I was allowed to stay […]

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One Singular Sensation

April 19th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact, Technology

So I was driving down the Main St. of my little town, minding my own business and rocking out to some NPR when, quel surpise!  I noticed the billboard above had been that had been put in just that day.  Oh, the horror!  My granola eating hippy liberal bleeding heart nearly stopped.  A Family Radio […]

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Your Opinion is Bad and You Should Feel Bad

March 28th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

So in light of our latest podcast, it was brought to my attention that I have tastes that might…deviate from the norm.  No, I’m not talking about Wonder Woman and how I think her suit is SO AWESOME (it’s not), but specifically American Gods by Neil Gaiman.  That’s right, Kriana, I thought that book was […]

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I For One Welcome Our New Fungal Overlords

March 17th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

  Zombies. People seem to have really fallen in love with the genre in the past few years. I remember watching both Resident Evil AND Shaun of the Dead the same night at our local theater, and then dragging my husband back to watch it AGAIN. I was at the edge of my seat during […]

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In Soviet Russia, Flamingo Flies to You!

March 14th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

What do you think of when you think about flamingos? Maybe it’s wet, tropical heat, visions of marshland, shrimp (mmm, shrimp!), or just those awful decorations on people’s lawns.  All in all,  it’s safe to assume that the very last thing you would think of is…snow?

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The Passage: A Review

March 9th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

  Title: The Passage Author: Justin Cronin Format: Available in both hard copy and e-book formats   I know I’m late to the party, but yesterday I finally finished The Passage by Justin Cronin. The story is set one hundred years in the future, after our world has been ravaged by a deadly virus that […]

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