[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vfzhfq5JA] While I’ve seen almost every Studio Ghibli film—you know, the animation studio that brought you films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle—I never got around to watching From Up on Poppy Hill. It’s the most recent release and, more importantly, Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki, directed the film. […]
SDCC Hotelpocalypse is Coming
Five days, and counting. So Hotelpocalypse is coming, and on February 26, 2013 we will get the craziness that is any SDCC ticket buying process. If you were around for the registration day last week, you know the good stuff gets sold out fast and getting the places you want can […]
400 Minutes And Counting Down the Drain…
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do, doooo do do doooo doo doo, do doo do do doo, do do do. So does that that theme sound familiar at all? Go ahead, keep on humming it, I’ll wait. I […]
How My Life Became a Game with HabitRPG
I’m a pretty busy person. I work two jobs, go to school full time, and manage Nerdophiles, when you add my horrible memory, I easily have like ten different management methods/tools to help me stay on top of things. I have a day-to-day planner, reminders on my phone, my Google […]
Some of the Most Fun You Can Have For Just $20
Childhood. It consisted of staying off the “lava rocks,” playing Batman and Robin or Power Rangers, neighborhood hide and seek and so much more awesome things. I mean kids would want to be pilots or astronauts when they grew up. There was always a sense of exploration, that curiosity that […]
This Week in BBC Sherlock Updates: Panoramas and Poetry
BBC Sherlock production designer and Twitter tease extraordinaire Arwel Wyn Jones upped the ante this week. So if you tuned out, thinking it would just be another week of wallpaper, here’s what you missed. It started off with some angels: Followed by a slightly higher tech and super cool panoramic […]
Beautiful Creatures Was Robbed This Valentine’s Day
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rjhB7KWEc] I cannot even begin to explain just how disappointed I am in the Valentine’s Day opening of Beautiful Creatures. Some how Safe Haven and It’s a Good Day to Die Hard managed to pull almost $9 million at the box office but Beautiful Creatures? It got the same $2.5 […]
In the Game of Ticket Sales, You Win or You Die
Much like the fight for the throne of Westeros, if you’re not paying attention, if you haven’t gathered your resources, if you take a wrong step, you shall perish, but more than that, sometimes you’ll do all the right things and you can still perish. So this morning, at 9am […]
Remember Me Shines at the End of a Generation
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nnIjIvIQsg8] With the end of the current generation of consoles all but certain this holiday season, it’s surprising to see the number of new games and new properties that are being wheeled out by various publishers. The Last of Us from Naughty Dog is the one that seems to have […]
Batman and Robin Together at Last in Homoerotic Art Gallery
After spending a long winter break back home in the central valley, nothing says, “Welcome back to San Francisco!” quite like spending a Friday night at the “Batman on Robin” homoerotic art show. Sure, not everyone ships Batman and Robin. That’s totally okay! But try to tell me slash fiction […]
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