On this blog’s sister site, the official Pandora’s Children website, I have posted 2 new posts, one on the books I am currently reading, one on the books I just bought.  I’ll be doing a weekly update on what’s new in the world of books for me, so if you are interested, head over to Pandora’s Children and check it out.  This week… Stephen King, Jim Butcher, Simon Green, a couple of Dragonlance and Forgotten [...]

Some thoughts on my favorite television shows: Lost-  God, I miss the days of escaped polar bears.  And The Others.  And inputting numbers into an old computer and pushing a button.  I remember complaining about the show back then, but man, it was gold compared to today.  Time travel.  I HATE time travel.  Abhor it.  Its an awful premise in any show.  And all it has done to lost is make it an incomprehensible mess.  [...]

Of course, on the surface, Spongebob appears to be a cartoon designed for the 6-12 year old crowd.  The colors, the funny aquatic creatures, the underwater squirrel, the quirky music.  But anyone who has watched SB knows that, in general, this cartoon is more appropriate for the under 5 crowd, who are too young to understand the crude humor, and the high school and college crowd, who have created many a drinking game around Spongebob.  [...]

I always get excited the week before a new CD comes about, especially when I’ve ben waiting over 2 years for a new album.  Many times, I am rewarded for my patience with an awesome album.  The new Chevelle Album, Sci-Fi Crimes, is an excellent example, and you can check out my review of it here.  From beginning to end, I was blown away. Unfortunately, when I popped in Life Starts Here, I wasn’t afforded [...]

I’ll qualify this by saying that I own every X-men comic book from #129, the beginning of the Dark Phoenix Saga, to the present.  I like to think that i am an expert on the X-men.  I am geek-certified.  That being said, let’s get to it. I remember the good old days.  The days when there was a single team.  A coherent team.  Though the members changed over the years, the book always focused on a [...]

I was just watching an older Spongebob episode- not “classic” old, but several years.  It was the Kelp Shake episode, and while in the middle of viewing all of these new mediocre SB episodes, it reminded me of what makes a good Spongebob episode good, and not just fair. It’s a Plankton episode, but that’s okay.  I do like some of them. Now what makes this episode good? The difference, first off, is the interesting [...]

Growth Spout was the sixth episode from the SB Summer Bash I feel like a broken record at this point- it was okay, not great. Episode starts off with Pearl going through a growth spurt, and she demands food.  She eats the entire fridge in one bite. Krabs first goes to Ms. Puff’s house and starts harvesting what look like giant peanuts, but they are all really worms, and they begin to spit disgustingly at him.  [...]