Yesterday I told you things were going to get mixed up around here – well I hope you spent yesterday taking deep breaths, finding your chi and taking a lot of vitamin C, because this whole week here at The Byronic Man is going to be Choose Your Own Adventure Week! Yes! Remember Choose Your […]
August 18, 2012
Hold On To Your Pork-Pie Hats and Ironic Tattoos – Things Are Getting Out of Control
Well, I’ve been out of town for the week, but I’m back and ready to sort through the mail and try to bring the lawn back from the dead! For a couple of days we were in Portland and as much as I love the Rose City, it’s about to reach a super-saturation point of […]
August 16, 2012
The Greatest Sequels Of All Time 2: The Sequeling
(Yesterday began our analysis of some of the best movie sequels of all time. You might want to start there, if you missed it, for the explanation and number 10-6.) And numbers 5-1? 5. Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Gremlins was great. It was creepy, funny and fun. Gremlins 2 completely derails the first film […]
August 15, 2012
The Greatest Movie Sequels Of All Time
Sequels. Much maligned and mocked. Yet some of the best films ever made have been sequels. Also some of the worst, laziest pieces of crap ever put to celluloid. But those are for later. Today we begin a look at sequels in three categories: the good, the bad, and the contentious, and we begin with […]
August 13, 2012
Shark Week: Inspiring More Fear Than Actual Sharks Do For Over 20 years
I love sharks. Love them. I do not love Shark Week. In honor of the Discovery Channel re-airing its Shark Week, I re-offer my examination of TV’s most prestigious week. Oh, you have not read it before. So, why do I think Shark Week on The Discovery Channel is just so, so ridiculous? Well, because… […]
August 12, 2012
It’s The Weekly Question of the Week… IN SPACE!
So it’s nothing new to take stories and re-tell them in a new setting. The most obvious example might be science-fiction, where often the extremity of the setting allows for a tidy allegory. This often manifests as the “… IN SPACE!” plot. You know, “It’s High Noon… IN SPACE!” (the movie Outland.) “It’s the Cold […]
August 11, 2012
And See This One? Get it? What? No, I Will Order When You Laugh With Childlike Delight, And Not Until Then.
I met someone at a Barnes & Noble cafe earlier. The person in front of me in line made the terrible, terrible error of trying to use a Starbucks gift card and was laid waste by the disdain and ire of the barista. “Uhmuhguhd. We’re not a Starbucks, ungkay? We’re a Barnes & Noble cafe, […]
August 9, 2012
Hey Renee From “Teacher & Twits”! Let’s Play 20 Questions!
Holy crapsicle! When Renee, today’s 20 Questions interviewee sent me her responses, she sent them in text code. TEXT CODE. I was proud of myself when I found the “font color” button, but text code?? But then, no one would ever accuse Renee of lacking motivation. The force behind the compelling and varied Teachers & […]
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August 19, 2012
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