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Redshirts
Posted at January 28, 2013I was totally going to do a critical reading of John Scalzi’s book Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, but I ended up racing through the…
The Avengers
Posted at October 20, 2012“That’s my secret, Captain: I’m always angry.” That alone would redeem a lesser movie. But The Avengers is actually very good movie. It even…
Venice in a Day
Posted at May 21, 2012Venice in a Day from Joerg Niggli on Vimeo. It’s tilt-shifted, of course, because that’s what all the cool kids are doing these days. It’s…
Evil Dead the Musical
Posted at May 20, 2012Last year some friends and I saw “Evil Dead the Musical” at the Vogue, and it was sufficiently awesome that we (a slightly different group…
I fail at blogging!
Posted at March 14, 2012So I last posted in… October? Stuff to blog since then: Montreal Movie reviews (Tintin, Margin Call, Moneyball) Gottacon Becoming a…
Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel
Posted at October 29, 2011Because it must be shared: Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel, by Shaenon K. Garrity. I’ve never read Moby Dick, but I don’t think it…
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Posted at October 28, 2011Today work took everyone to the theatre to watch the new version of The Three Musketeers. I really enjoyed it! It wasn’t great — 2D…
Lotus
Posted at September 25, 2011This is mostly just a test to verify that I can A) embed youtube videos, and B) they get successfully propagated to other venues, like buzz…
Car Free Vancouver!
Posted at June 19, 2011Today was Car Free Vancouver! Gavin and I (and his dad) went to the big one on Main Street, which stretched from 12th Ave to 29th or 30th…
Wall of Forgiveness
Posted at June 16, 2011I decided to go home after work, which naturally meant that I wandered down to Granville Street to look at the aftermath. Today hundreds (if…