It seems like we're approaching the end of an era.
About ten years at a San Diego ComicCon I caught the premiere of "Arrow," a new D.C. Comics adaptation of the Green Arrow meant to fill the gap left by the conclusion of "Smallville"
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Or has already bought it. Or is in the process?
I'm honestly not sure because, like many people I'm sure, the words "Elon Musk has…" triggers an intense feeling of disinterest. One that is only amplified by the notion that Twitter should at all be taken seriously.
After all. It's just Twitter.
Finally, at long last, we have a trailer for "Thor: Love and Thunder."
We've got our first glance at what the MCU's God of Thunder has been up to since sauntering off to space at the end of "Avengers: Endgame." He's lost some weight, he's doing some space pirating, hanging out with the Greek pantheon. And, in the meantime, Jane Foster is running around with a newly reforged Mjolnir.
I bought a new video game this weekend.
"Triangle Strategy," a new tactics based RPG for the Nintendo Switch. It cost me $59.99 before tax.
How is that possible?
There's a lot of talk these days about inflation. The price of everything is going up. A dollar doesn't go as far as it used to.
I caught up on "Only Murders in the Building" this weekend, featuring the dynamic duo of Steve Martin and Martin Short. The comedic legends, now well into their 70s, are still paling around onscreen after more than three decades. In the show, Short and Martin play a mismatched pair of past-their-prime entertainers that end up getting hooked on solving murders while leaning into the fact that they are of an elder generation.
With season two of "Star Trek: Picard" underway and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" upcoming, it looks like it's time to activate a Paramount+ subscription. Running at $4.99 a month for the subscription with commercial interruptions, it's pretty small price to pay for catching up on all that's been happening in the final frontier.
About 12 years ago I went over to my mom's acreage and came home with two freshly weaned kittens, which I promptly named Sparty and Athene.
Sparty was the bigger and more athletic of the two brothers, though you wouldn't know it by how he behaved. He was black and white and anxious all over, never a fan of new places or people.
It's absurd, isn't it? The year is 2022 and Russia appears to be forcibly trying to re-assemble the Soviet Union.
Why? That is the question of the hour. What possible benefit could there be in Russia sacrificing their economy, global reputation, and the lives of their soldiers to occupy a country that so very clearly does not want them?
Some time ago I wrote about diving into the world of TikTok, the current web based media machine taking over the internet one vertical video at a time.
It's been fun. There are some TikTok creators that I specifically follow, but I spend more of my time on the site randomly browsing the "For You" page, which is where the TikTok algorithm feeds you a stream of videos it thinks you'll like.
It's that time again.
Nintendo, continuing their decades long tradition of whittling away at the goodwill they earned in the 90s, made another harsh announcement last week.
Big things are happening in the video game industry these days. Big, possibly problematic things, but interesting nonetheless.
Before we start though, let's break down how console games are made and who makes them.
I've been a newspaper reporter for quite some time now. As such, I attend a lot of meetings.
Really. A lot. Nary a week goes bye for me without attending at least one city council or school board meeting from any of the numerous territories I have covered over the years. It would not be outlandish to suggest that I have sat through more of such meetings than any elected official currently serving on them.
It's been two weeks since my first symptoms of COVID-19 manifested and nobody has seen my face, at least in public, since then.
All-in-all, my quarantine has gone relatively smoothly. As noted last week, I'm fortunate enough that the bulk of my work can be done from home. Granted, newsgathering by phone is limiting, but with a little bit of help it works in a pinch.
