RIP Twinkies
I heard the other day that Twinkies are no longer in production. I know what you’re all thinking. No more Twinkie Weiner Sandwiches! Nooooooo!!!
Worlds Collide
I love when worlds collide, especially when they are time traveling epics. Do stone angels know how to drive?
Extra Life 2011
Want to help heal kids?
I’m raising money and awareness for my local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. On Oct. 15, 2011, I’ll attempt to play video games for 24 hours straight in hopes you’ll support me by giving just $1 per hour ($24 total).
Your donation is tax-deductible and 100 percent of your gift goes to help kids.
Click on my link below and consider donating to my Extra Life page. Thanks!
@itslaurenmae playing her Beauty & the Beast game. She was born a gamer. (Taken with instagram)
I told Chipotle to draw a robot on my burrito. Pass or fail? (Taken with instagram)
Check out my latest article where I talk about how games nowadays have decreased in difficulty and take a trip down memory lane, reliving the horrors of never finishing games on my NES and SNES. http://bit.ly/ntz1EA
Time Lorens
Hello, my name is Loren, and I’m a timeaholic. I’m addicted to things that have to do with time travel, namely “Back to the Future”. I wish I had a Delorean or a Tardis, I imagine where I would like to go in time, and would rather think about time travel than do productive work. This is heavy…
Rock: Ancient tumblr Fossils
I’m quite aware that I still have this account, I just got busy with other things, namely working with the Married Gamers, and neglected my blog. I’m alive! In the mean time I wanted to showcase the evolution of geeks everywhere.
Paper: New news
A lot has been going on lately. Lauren and I both got picked up by the Married Gamers to write for their website. Awesome! I’m proud of Lauren for giving gaming a shot. I thought once we got married my Xbox would be staying in the closet.
I’m still looking for a steady job. Teaching jobs are far and few until school begins. Grrrrr….. I might be getting a long term sub job though teaching 7th grade algebra for a lady who is going on maternity leave. Keep your fingers crossed!
Inception is an awesome movie. Enough said.
Spock: The Last Airbender
With Avatar: The Last Airbender coming out this past week you probably have seen a lot of nerd rage on the internet about how “terrible” the movie is, or how it does “injustice to the television franchise”. I myself never saw the television series before going to see the film and so I was cautious about my initial reactions to the film and the hype surrounding it. What was apparent to me though was that people were really excited to see Aang (Eng?) and his journey.
My wife, Lauren, and I were invited by a few of our friends to go to the midnight showing of the movie. We were hoping that the movie would fill us newbies in on what was going on because we had no clue what the story was about. As we were waiting in line we heard people talking about how it had received abysmal reviews and was a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Overall the movie wasn’t that bad of a film. Again, never seeing the tv show I had nothing to base my reaction on. To keep this review from becoming a scathing opinion piece I will highlight the good things about it first. My wife thought the best part was that they got Dev Patel to play Zuko (Zukko?), I on the other hand liked how the special effects were used in a sensible, and not over-the-top fashion. I really believed that the elements being controlled were real in the movie and not tacky CG effects. I also enjoyed that Aasif Mandvi was in the film. If you ever saw Spiderman 2 you recognize him as being Peter Parker’s boss at Joe’s pizza. Ironic that he worked in a pizza place baking pizza and is able to use fire in this film.
The major gripe I had with the movie is that whenever the camera panned across the screen I felt like I was going to vomit. The editing was poorly done and there were several gaps in the storyline. The biggest FAIL I noticed was when Aang was fighting with the Fire Nation soldiers and retreated into a sparring circle, only to be shown running across wooden pegs seconds later. How did he get to these pegs when we just saw him in the circle kicking butt? My wife and I looked at each other during the movie and both gave each other the WTF look. Another thing that my wife and I would have appreciated more would have been more backstory such as how Aang got stuck in the ice, why he ran away from home, and more about the past Avatars.
I would definitely see this movie again, just not in theaters. I give it a 6 out of 10.
LAME JOKE: What do fire-benders like with their soup? FireCRACKERS!
