February 2008
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Diesel Sweeties Family Guy parody →
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Oscar Observations
Just a few quick thoughts.
In general the awards went to whom it was expected. There Will Be Blood was Daniel Day Lewis’s show, so he got that, and No Country for Old Men grabbed the bigger ones, with Diablo Cody getting best screenplay because movies like Juno can’t compete with movies like No Country.
They should really do away with the montages. There were fewer this year than...
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Wither Wii
With the Wii, Nintendo made the argument that its new generation of games would be about innovative game design and not raw graphics power. Now that we’re into year two of the system, I find myself thinking about how it stacks up against the XBOX 360.
Off the top of my head, here are the big Wii games that Nintendo itself has published:
Wii Sports
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight...
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Ash Wednesday falling on February 6 today is the earliest it’s been since 1913. The earliest it can be is February 4, which hasn’t happened since 1818, says Wikipedia.
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I’m well into the fourth of seven books in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. I got to thinking last night that his gunslinger characters are really cool, but that I think Star Wars has laid permanent claim to the “last of a dying breed of warrior” type. Just as no one will be able to write a book about a wizard school ever again without being compared against Harry Potter,...