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Friends don’t get friends bumper stickers as gifts.
FADE IN INT, PIZZA PLACE Bill, a 32 year old man, is celebrating his birthday with his partner and his friends. One of them, Jerry, grins a manic smile, and pushes a small, flatish box towards Bill. JERRY: Happy Birthday, Bill, I’m so excited for you to see what I got you. JERRY does not […]
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Kayaking is great (without boat stunts)
One of our favorite things to do in the summer is to get out on the water in either kayaks or on paddle boards. Normally this means a lazy float down a river (often with some inflatable rafts along for the ride), but today we decided we’d rather go out to a lake instead. We […]
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Ultimate Spider-man is very good, but very short
Earlier this week I finished playing through Ultimate Spider-man, a 2005 tie-in to the Ultimate Spider-man comic series developed by the same studio that made the tie-in games for Sam Rami’s film trilogy. I played this game back when it was still new and have very fond memories of swinging through the city and hanging […]
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You Know What I Just Watched: Mission Impossible 2
I just finished watching Mission Impossible 2, or MI2, this morning… And I did not love it! I ended up really liking the first Mission Impossible when I watched it the other day, thanks to thinking of it as a heist movie first, and I thought it was really successful through that lens. With the […]
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You know what I just watched: Mission Impossible
I was convinced to watch the first Mission Impossible movie by a couple of things lately. The newest entry in the franchise is about to come out, which means there’s general discussion about the six film series right now, but I was specifically pushed by a member of the Geek to Geek podcast community who […]