Author Archives: Mark
August 28, 2013 Star Trek (The Game) Review
The instant you slap the Star Trek label on something my interest is piqued. Years and years of great Trek have conditioned me to salivate when that bell is rung again. I went into the 2009 movie with some trepidation, but I was still inclined to like it. And I did! …mostly. It was, as […]
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August 27, 2013 Tuesday 10: The Simpsons Tapped Out Tasks
I have hesitated to do this list for a while because it would be way more effective with animated GIF screenshots, but I don’t have the foggiest idea how to do that. On top of that, there’s like three of you that even play this game, so I’m basically saying to the world at large, […]
Tags: iOS, Simpsons, Tapped Out
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August 26, 2013 Better Off Ted S02E11 – Mess of a Salesman
Two weird things happened in this episode: Ted acts very un-Tedlike around his brother Veronica and Linda work together very well without Veronica hassling Linda (well, not much, anyway – she does say Linda isn’t up to being “bad cop,” but that rang more as an assessment of talents than castigation) That first one started […]
Tags: Better Off Ted, LWST
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August 23, 2013 Mandy
If you’ve come here looking for Barry Manilow songs, you’re about to be disappointed. I knew Mandy Patinkin as a singer a long while before I knew him as an actor. His self-titled album is the first CD I ever bought, and I still have it to this day. It wasn’t until someone showed me […]
Tags: Mandy Patinkin
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August 22, 2013 Kermit & Steve
This thing was all over the Internet yesterday, but I couldn’t let it slide without a mention here. Steve Martin and Kermit the Frog in “Dueling Banjos” from Steve Martin It’s not hilarious, but it’s fun and catchy. What I really love about this video with two of my favorite characters ever, though, is […]
Tags: Muppets, Steve Martin
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