Category Archives: movies & tv

New Pony Merch

So, I have a friend with a bad habit of going to the San Diego Comic Con on a yearly basis.  He spends a few days at “Nerd Prom”, usually gets some fun stuff to decorate his cubicle / apartment … Continue reading

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Friendship is Movie.

So, thanks to con-going fans with relaxed moral compasses, I was able to watch “Equestria Girls” this morning before work, a good week before the official home video release. Technically, I suppose I COULD have gone to see it during … Continue reading

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Vegetables, Actually Quite Bad For You:

  One nice side benefit of all this DVD ripping and encoding I’ve been doing is that I occasionally stumble across something that I’d purchased and forgotten to actually watch. Hence my sitting down for a three hour sessions with … Continue reading

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Set Phasers to D’AWWWWWW

According to the AFI, who seem like the sorts of people who ought to know these things, the top ten movies of ALL time are Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Wizard of Oz, … Continue reading

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I may have finally cracked an organizational problem.

I don’t think much screams “first world problems” quite as much as the horrible problem of not knowing exactly what movies you own and in which formats.  That having been said… I like my AppleTV a lot.  It’s an unassuming … Continue reading

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Ponies

I am no stranger to buying embarrassing things. Back in the 90s, I became quite used to being the only non-Asian guy in the local Japanese bookstore and the only guy, period, in the shojo manga section.  I’ve been the … Continue reading

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I don’t consider myself a movie snob…

…but even having said that, there was a distinct problem with the “Classic Movies” category available on my recent United flight back from overseas: I’m going to rank this somewhere between “faith in humanity failing” and “well, civilization has had … Continue reading

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…and a little nod to British sci-fi

  Many years ago, when I was a small child, I remember watching and enjoying episodes of Dr. Who on PBS.  This was episodes from the Tom Baker years, with the improbable scarf and the robot dog and sets made … Continue reading

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Not sure what’s more amazing here.

I was in a Goodwill the other day looking through their selection of PC software.  I’ve found some surprising gems this way, though it’s become less and less necessary with the advent of gog.com. Anyway, I didn’t find any software.  … Continue reading

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Shambling Mound, Shedu, Shrieker… Siren.

Let’s try to make this a little more work-safe, shall we? Oh, dear, that’s really not much better.  Let’s just get on with things. I quite liked “Man, Woman, and the Wall” when I watched it a couple of weeks … Continue reading

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