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Xbox DEAD

Got back from the East last night after a harrowing drive through wintery conditions to settle into my couch for some much-needed Xboxing with my homeys. Prod and I managed to play a couple games of Virtua Fighter 5 before getting unceremoniously dropped from Xbox Live. At first I figured it was local network problems [...]

review: Glasshouse

So, it’s almost 2008! I’m still stranded out east waiting for a brief gap in the constant snowfall so I can drive home. Patience is strained, but holding. It’s been made more bearable by good reading and fine scotch.

Over the holidays, I read Charles Stross‘ Glasshouse and thoroughly enjoyed it. It continues to amaze me [...]

Best Game of 2007

This year, especially the latter half of it has been a big one for gamers. Halo 3 made its long-awaited appearance on the Xbox 360. Bioshock was a bit of a surprise hit with its grim, art deco design and creepy atmosphere. Mass Effect from BioWare is a great scifi RPG. Call of Duty 4 [...]

Allergy Resurrection

While I’m somewhat incapacitated with some seasonal allergies, I thought I’d take a few minutes to write about the movie I just watched for the first time since it was in theatres 10 years ago: “Alien: Resurrection“. I just read a fairly lengthy interview with Joss Whedon on the Onion’s AV Club and thought I’d [...]

A new Venture (Bros. season)

That’s right. The mostly absent Jackson Publick updated his blog this week giving a few tantalizing details. The good news is that my favorite science genius and his two crime-fighting sons are going to be back on a screen somewhere in the not-too-distant future. Maybe in the new year or something. I dunno, I’m just [...]

JSB at Maverick’s

Last night was a rare and special treat. Jacob was in town on one of his many cross continent adventures to see the Jimmy Swift Band and I tagged along finally, having missed them on his previous several visits.
They did not disappoint.
The small venue had a few enthusiastic supporters and the band performed a solid [...]

where’s the stuff?

Y’know? The goods. Products. I went looking for some music the other day and came away empty-handed. Best Buy and the Future Shop keep terrible music on the shelves. Oh sure, there’s some good stuff, but where’s the Electrelane? And the Clientele? October Guard and the I love you but I’ve chosen darkness?
It is a [...]

This car is DeathProof!

Me’n’my posse have picked up a new game for the xboxes called Forza2. We played the first version of the game and was pretty impressed with the gameplay and physics, but the game sort of petered-out for us because the online game didn’t really have a great mechanism for balancing cars. The new game allows [...]

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