If you’ve played many video games online, then you know some people take them way too seriously. Rick is the type to do so. What should be a fun game turns into a lifelong obsession, where you resort to cursing at some 12-year-old for killing you.
Archive for ‘May, 2010’
In college I often spent the summers in town when most people moved back home. It was not cool, and there was not much to do. The town basically shut down. It might be cool if you go to school in Boston, but not most other places.
Amanda seems like a bad influence on eighth graders.
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There are most likely three reactions one can have to reading the title of this piece. One, you recognize it as a Seinfeld reference. Two, you only just now recognized it as a reference upon me mentioning Seinfeld. Three, you have no idea what a puffy shirt is. If you fall under option three, you most likely often feel left out of conversations among coworkers and friends. Someone mentions a Soup Nazi and you think you missed a History Channel documentary.
Nobody likes to feel left out, but cultural references create this situation all the time. My last two blog posts dealt with Lost, and for many they simply glazed over and hoped for a return to blogs about Christmas and Radio Shack. Talk of polar bears and Hugo was meaningless to them. I run into this often when teaching. I try to come up with a common reference my students can all relate to in order to make a larger point. In recent years hit films such as The Dark Knight have been safe cultural touchstones, but even they can vary wildly between 30-70% of a class having seen them. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every test in life should be as simple as naming one word in a foreign language. In high school a friend and I would torment our Spanish teacher in a similar fashion. He had the class play a game where we each had to say a word in Spanish or get eliminated from the game. We refused to use words not on Taco Bell’s menu.
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Last week I wrote that the finale of Lost could do nothing but disappoint. No matter how much fans gave it a fair shake, they would end up slightly disappointed after investing six years and not getting an ending that would satiate every nuanced desire. Having read several responses since the airing, I stand by that assertion. Even the most positive responses come with a bagful of caveats.
What did I make of it? I was disappointed, but perhaps not for the reasons many might expect. I liked that we were finally given our climatic showdown between good and evil with mock-Locke and Jack on the cliff. I liked that it was Kate who rose up to defeat Smokey. There have been criticisms of the show over the years that the female roles were weak and always in need of rescuing by the males. In the end, Kate rescued Jack and everyone else. She saved the world. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Students are always shocked to discover that teachers are just as, if not more so, excited as them to see the school year end. It isn’t that teachers hate their job, it’s just that being a teacher is generally more stressful than being a student, and we all remember how much fun that was.
IT is not going to be happy that Evil Beard smashed his laptop.
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Good films like the She-Witch series (yes, completely fictional) simply do not get made anymore. Sure, there are still bad direct-to-DVD films being made, but series like She-Witch used to actually make it into theaters. That’s a shame, because all it leaves us with is yearly Saw retreads instead. You hear me, Michael Bay? Get to work on She-Witch!
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I always enjoy the idea of people not getting what it is that’s controversial about them. I think it shows a weird nexus of innocence, naivety, and ignorance rolled into one. The best part, however, is that he really feels like he gets the issue, but really has no clue. Yes, we enjoy making up things for characters to say that make them look stupid and then laughing at them. We’re bad people.
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I was a quasi-latecomer to Lost. After watching the premiere episode and a couple after, I fell out of regular viewing until I caught up sometime during the third season. Since then, for better or for worse, I’ve been hooked. As the finale draws near, I fear it was for worse.
But wait, I am not simply being blindly critical. It isn’t that I doubt the dedication of the cast and crew to deliver a rip-roarious finale that will satisfy–it’s that I doubt said ability of anyone. Think about it for a moment, what was the last, really great final chapter you were exposed to? When it comes to television, I struggle to name many finales I can even label decent, let alone grand. Perhaps the greatest television finale of all time was for Little House on the Prairie, because they had the guts to simply blow up the entire town. That’s chutzpa! Otherwise? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip comes from a real situation. I once got a new cell phone that overheated each time I used it, even for a five minute phone call. When I tried to return it I was told I was lying about it, even though the phone was still within the return period. Why would anyone lie about this? What was I hoping to gain?
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