Monthly Archives: April 2009

This is the 4th entry in the Fast And The Furious movie franchise.  For those of you not familiar with the series I’ll give you a brief recap of pretty much all the movies:

  1. Fast cars
  2. Beautiful women
  3. The “bad guys” are actually the “good guys”
  4. Fast cars
  5. A little plot
  6. Fast cars
  7. More women
  8. Fast cars

That’s pretty much it.  If you’re looking for really deep movies here you’re not going to get them.  If you’re looking for some bad ass action sequences that will put on you the edge of your seat then you’re in the right place.… Continue reading

  • Burger King Square Pants – come on… maybe I’m just showing my age and becoming a grumpy old man, but there’s no way that Burger King should be using “Baby Got Back” as one of their theme songs in a commercial.  Not only are they using it in their commercial, but it’s being done to promote a Sponge Bob toy tie in.  Do people really think this is OK?  What’s next…  A Nine Inch Nails: Closer/ Dora The Explorer combo???
  • Spell check – use it people.  Unless you’re using Notepad.exe there’s really no reason NOT to spell check something.  That… Continue reading

BOOK DETAILS/INFORMATION:

This is the thirty-sixth (36) Spenser novel written by Robert B. Parker.  It was originally published in 2008.  Returning once again (for his third appearance) is Rugar (The Gray Man).

NOTE: This review will contain spoilers.

Preceded By: Now And Then

PLOT SUMMARY:

Spenser is hired to accompany professional gold digger Heidi Bradshaw to the wedding of her daughter.  The wedding takes place at the incredibly posh (and secluded – wink wink nudge nudge) Tashtego Island which is only accessible via boat or helicopter.  This is obviously a plot point that is flushed out rather quickly.  Spenser… Continue reading

  • There is a car across the street from my office with it’s alarm going off.  This has been occurring about every 12 minutes for the past 3 days.  This is rather annoying.  I’m currently thinking of ways to wipe this car from the face of the Earth.
  • Both the Indians and Cavs appeared to be playing the same game last night.  It went something like this: start off good, get a huge lead, think you’ve got the game in hand, have an “oh shit” moment and realize that the other team is coming back, kick it back into gear, win… Continue reading
  • My son has taken to sleeping in the nude.  I’m not sure why I think that’s so funny but it cracks me up every time I think about it.
  • “Better late than pregnant” – this line came from some random email forward that I got and it made me laugh.
  • The Tribe kicked the shit out of the Yankees on opening day of their new stadium.  The Yankees will probably win the World Series this year cause they’ve got more money than God, but it’s nice to see them (and their fans) brought down a notch.  With this terrible season… Continue reading

BOOK DETAIL/INFORMATION:

This is the third Spenser novel written by Robert B. Parker.  It was originally published in 1975.  Recurring character Patricia Utley makes her first appearance in this book.

Preceded By: God Save the Child Followed By: Promised Land

PLOT SUMMARY:

Spenser is back at it and has been hired by the Boston Red Sox to determine if their best pitcher (Marty Rabb) is throwing games… throwing them to the mob.  Along the way (as he’s prone to do) Spenser pulls one thread and gets himself involved in a plot that is more than meets the eye.  Spenser quickly… Continue reading

WrestleMania 25 is just recently in the books.  It wasn’t great but there were a couple of REALLY good matches.  WrestleMania weekend for me always means going back and reliving some of those great matches from past events.  It’s rare that this list is modified, but thanks to the Dead Man and Mr. WrestleMania this year, it was.  Honorable mentions and The Top Ten are listed in order of occurrence (oldest to newest).  Keep in mind that this is MY list.  I’m sure there are those out there that will put some others in their top ten – I’m an… Continue reading

We came… we saw… we kicked its ass!!!

Things were looking pretty harry there for while, but I’m happy to say that once again, Pip & I stood victorious over the structure that we refer to as the Beeramid.  I’ll be honest with you, there was a time there when we thought we were in for a rough go of it.  Then we realized that the base of the Beeramid was one too big… once we made that change we were good to go to the end.  The show itself was pretty lackluster, but we had a damn fine… Continue reading

Pip, my brother and I got together and carried on our tradition of watching WrestleMania together.  This was the 25th anniversary of the show so were expecting big things and a great show.  What we got (with a couple of exceptions) was neither.  Overall I’d have to say it was a pretty bad show with just a couple of high spots – certainly not what we were expecting from the biggest show of the year… and the 25th anniversary at that.  I’ll take it one step further and say that the only thing that made this one watchable was that… Continue reading

This was the third Spider-Man film directed by Sam Raimi and it had the potential to be awesome.  Unfortunately the potential was never realized.  There are definitely some parts of this movie that are great – in fact there are some scenes in here that are by far my favorites of the Spider-Man “trilogy” but there are others that are pretty much unforgivable.  Please note I’ll have MAJOR SPOILERS in this review.  If you haven’t seen it and want to be surprised stop reading.  You’ve been warned.

PLOT:

Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) finally got his shit in line.  He’s working… Continue reading

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