Am I the Only Person Who Doesn’t Get LOST?

No, I don’t mean I can drive around any town, any place without referencing a map once. No, this LOST I speak of is the very popular show on ABC.
I think my dislike of complicated series that inevitably end up failing to tell a story and merely chasing its own narrative tail stems from David [...]

John Granger on Harry Potter

I first became aware of John Granger a few months ago, thanks to his friend and fellow educator, Amy H. Sturgis. Granger describes his most popular intellectual pursuit at his blog (HogwartsProfessor) as: “… Granger’s contribution to the crowded world of Harry Potter thinking is his insistence the books be read as any other very [...]

Weekend Box Office – 2/25/2008

Rank    Title                                                               Weekend          Gross
1.    VANTAGE POINT                                            $24,000,000     $24,000,000
2.    JUMPER                                                           $12,650,000     $56,206,000
3.    SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES                       $12,600,000     $43,576,000
4.    STEP UP 2 THE STREETS                            $9,787,000      $41,419,000
5.    FOOL’S GOLD                                               $6,270,000      $52,433,000
6.    DEFINITELY, MAYBE                                     $5,184,000      $21,781,000
7.    BE KIND, REWIND                                        $4,100,000      $4,100,000
8.    JUNO                                                              $4,100,000      $130,377,000
9.    WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS   $3,989,000      $35,498,000
10.   THERE WILL BE BLOOD                           $2,561,000      $34,986,000
 

Where Have I Been?

Well to be honest, Saturday was my birthday, so I was swamped offline for a good part of the day.
That being said, I’ve decided to join my friends over at Blog@Newsarama, as a regular contributor with its Quote, Unquote column. Here is my first installment.
Then tonight, I decided to lurk in the comments section of [...]

The John Larroquette Show Re-Enters My Brain

I don’t watch Boston Legal with any great regularity. I have a love/annoyance relationship with David E. Kelley, the show’s creator. When Kelley gets on his soapbox and has his characters start preaching to the audience through heavy-handed plot elements, I just have to get away. Fortunately I had been away for awhile when I [...]