Author Archives: Mark
March 6, 2015 The Curse of Immortality
Here’s Honkus Pants again. You might recall a while back that I stopped playing The Sims Freeplay because they added an aging component and I didn’t want my Sims to die. A couple of weeks ago a friend started playing, and she needed a neighbor to have a loungechair by the pool so she could finish […]
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March 3, 2015 Tuesday 12: Movies of 1999
I saw 71 movies released in 1999, and I might as well admit that I saw Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace four times the year it was released. I kept going with people who hadn’t seen it yet, basically. That’s not much of an excuse, I know, but it’s what happened. I really […]
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March 2, 2015 Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy died last week, aged 83. While he was an accomplished actor, director, author, and artist, he is, of course, most famous for playing Spock on Star Trek. It is impossible to write about Leonard Nimoy without writing about Spock, so infused was the character with the man. Much of the Vulcan mythos […]
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February 27, 2015 Make It Rain: The Love of Money
When you open the game Make It Rain: The Love of Money, you are greeted with a splashscreen that quotes Matthew 6:24 (but leaves off the reference) – “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the […]
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February 24, 2015 Tuesday 41: Best Picture Winners
It’s still Oscar season as long as people are griping/celebrating/watching highlights on YouTube, right? I got curious as to how many of the Best Picture Oscar winners I had seen, and once I found out was 41, I figured I might as well try to rank them. It ended up being kind of difficult, especially […]
Tags: Oscars
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