I’m helping teach Country Studies again this year and I hope to have a little more direction with the lesson plans. However, for my first class I didn’t want to dive into the material right away (partially because I was asked to teach ten minutes before class started and had no time to prepare). Instead, […]
I recently watched Captain America to bring myself up to speed in the world of superheroes and the path to The Avengers. If you’re not aware of who Captain America is, you should be. He’s the reason we won WWII. I’m not making this up, in the Marvel Universe Captain America swayed the tides of war […]
I’m not a Thor fan. I haven’t read up on his mythology and I don’t follow his comic books. I’m just a guy who likes to watch a good superhero movie. I won’t be discussing actually accuracy to mythology or comic books or the way your mother told it to you when you were twenty. […]
Today started out as a pretty crummy day for me. I’m not quite sure why. I woke up tired, but I’ve been tired all week; I even managed to accomplish more of my new daily exercise routine before I left for school. I had been getting too tired to go on during the previous few […]
I was in the mood for a little bit of baseball today so I decided to throw in Bad News Bears. I haven’t seen this movie since I was a kid and I can only wonder why my parents let me watch it at a young age. The language is hardly the kind you’d want […]
“I spent the summer in my grandmother.” -Tanya (9th form)
Maybe I wrote too soon when I lamented in my post about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows – Part 1 when I expressed how I wish they would have included Dobby’s gravestone. I felt that the gravestone left me with such an emotional feeling, I truly felt the loss that Harry felt, that it would […]
I finally had time to catch up on Community. It took me about two days to watch the second season and that’s only because I had to worry about going back to work. The season as a whole was quite good with a lot of homages to various movies and shows. But, if you ask […]
With the amount of time I have, I read a fair number of books. I always have and I suspect I always will. About a year ago I received my first Kindle. It changed reading for me forever. I thought, like many people yet to own a Kindle, that pages and physical copies are important. […]
The whole world will know my joy when I see a movie remake of a book and am completely satisfied. Today, however, is not that day. I may be a little behind the times but I finally was able to sit down and watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1. Let me be […]