Category: Pop Culture
4 Web-Comics that Will Devour Hours of Your Time

Growing up, there were very few cartoons in the newspaper that I made sure to catch on a regular basis.  The only one that seems worth the time was The Far Side (created by Gary Larson).   Its twisted sense of humor was appealing and seemed miles above the other scribblings in the paper.  Fast forward 15 years and there [...]

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Why there is only one timeline on Lost

 
I’ve heard numerous explanations on why the current season of Lost seems to be operating on two different timelines.  The most popular scenario seems to be that there are two distinct, separate timelines in play; one being the new 2004 timeline where the Losties landed safely in LAX and the other being the current 2007 Losties still fighting the good fight on the island. [...]

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How to move 2500 miles away without a job waiting for you.

30 days ago, I was driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles without a full time job.
20 days ago, I was on my first interview at a social networking company in Westwood.
10 days ago, I was on my third callback interview with a tech company in El Segundo.
5 days ago, I had three different job offers in my lap.

Today, I [...]

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I hope one of them gets it.

I rarely post about politics, but something intriguing on the campaign front caught my eye today. A presidential candidate is advertising in Burnout Revenge. For those unfamiliar, Burnout Revenge is a car-racing video game owned by Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts sells ad space on digital billboards within the game. When gamers hop online to play a little Burnout [...]

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Indie Flicks, Billion Dollar Mistakes and SNL

- Caught this little indie flick with Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega (the female lead in Spanglish). What a quirky little movie!  Freeman plays an out of work character actor that’s dropped off in an predominantly Hispanic neighborhood to study a grocery store manager for a role in a movie.  He latches onto Paz Vega, the girl running the [...]

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Dexter’s newfound spontaneity

I watched the first episode of Dexter season 3 this week.  It doesn’t air for another two weeks on Showtime.  No story spoilers from me, but I will say that the ending will leave your jaw on the floor.
I was studying Jimmy Smits character the entire episode.  He has an odd interest in Dexter that I’d imagine is going to [...]

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Taco Beds, TV and Bad Sushi

I enjoyed the premiere of The Shield’s final season this week.  It was a slow start considering the pacing of the previous episode, but it laid some brilliant groundwork for future story lines.  I’m thinking Shane lives, Ronnie goes off the deep end, Vic and Acevada take down the Mexican cartel in a very bloody fashion and Dutch finally goes [...]

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