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November 12, 2013 Tuesday 10: Time Travelers

Time travel stories are the best and the worst. It’s great to go back and fiddle with things, or see things through a modern eye, or try to invest in the stock market before Jean-Claude Van Damme comes back and arrests you. But it’s terrible to create time paradoxes that end up swallowing the universe as […]

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November 8, 2013 Transporters

I’m traveling this weekend and conservative estimates put me at being in a car for around 18.5 hours over the span of around 52 hours. Three to four of those hours will be spent in, around, and through Chicago. Just about the only thing I dislike more than driving is driving through Chicago. Too much […]

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November 6, 2013 Dire DVDs: Heber Holiday

Ladies and Gentlemen, it happened. The one thing I was most concerned about – one of those $2 DVDs turned out to be a pretty decent movie and I was left without anything to mock. I have rallied, and chosen one from the pile that is guaranteed to be terrible, but for a while there […]

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October 31, 2013 Nightmare On My Street

I was a sophomore in high school when I saw my first slasher movie: Nightmare on Elm Street 2. I was at an all-nighter at a friend’s house with a bunch of other guys and someone suggested we watch it. I remember being the main “yeah!” voice, but I couldn’t say exactly why I was. […]

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October 30, 2013 Dire DVDs: House of the Dead

“House of the Dead” glories in a whole 2 stars out of a possible 10 over at IMDB, so I can already tell I’m in for a fun time. It’s yet another horror movie here at Zwolanerd as I’m reliably informed that tomorrow is Halloween. Being Australian means I am aware of  Halloween in the […]

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