This is my place to vent, to pontificate, to educate, to defame, to expound, and yes, to wax rhapsodic. It's my personal brand of logic applied to the world, and it works for me.
Yes, friends and neighbours — Survivor is back! I have a deep love for this show, predominantly because it’s one of the best games possible to showcase analytical and logical thinking, and is also a fantastic example of how people decide against logic once they’re sequestered from the rest of the world. This season, I’m [...]
Now, it’s no secret that I’m a big fan of comics. I grew up reading them and loving them, playing X-Men with other comic-obsessed friends in the playground at school (I was always Nightcrawler, rather than the obvious choice of Wolverine. I ran around the playground yelling “Bamf!”) and being the go-to guy for continuity [...]
So, the new procedural ‘Lie to Me‘ has officially had three episodes aired, which I think is long enough to allow me to comment on it. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a show about an agency that specializes in lie detecting. Yeah, I know. I wondered if this was a lucrative business as well. [...]
Yesterday, after bitching about The Dark Knight, it got me to thinking about comic book movies in general, and what makes them work, or, more often, not work, in terms of the medium of film. I think I tend to have blinders on with regards to comic movies, since I’ve been reading comics most of [...]
Well, Awards season is upon us, and as a self-proclaimed geek, I’d be remiss if I didn’t speak out against a little problem I’m having with the Academy Awards this year. Look, let’s face facts — the big winner at the box office this year was a definitive one, by the name of “The Dark [...]
Oh, Bob. Survivor has been, at least since the second “season”, a combination of two games. At first, and for the starter seasons, the producers have really pushed the “survival” aspect of the game. How hard it is to survive in these remote areas? What outdoors skills do the contestants need to survive? How will [...]
Knowledge is a tricky thing. It’s difficult to decide with any kind of certainty what is known for certain, and what is assumed. Most of our lives revolve around assumptions, no matter how much we try to figure out what the truth is. In fact, living a succesful life is almost dependent on assumptions: that [...]
So, thanks to my friend Allison, my wife and I have begun going back and watching old Bond films. Part of me thinks it’s due primarily to the release of the new Bond film, but that only precipitated the discussion with Al, which had me discover she’d never seen a Bond film. She’d heard that [...]