Things I neither like nor understand:
1) Anime
2) The game Go
Thing I nevertheless like:
1) Hikaru No Go, an anime television show about the game Go
Paul, who at one time belonged to a club of people who played Go on purpose, started out watching this alone, on his computer. But our computers are […]

I’m glad my sister-in-law told me it took her 5 or 6 episodes to get into Firefly, because I didn’t think I was going to like it at first, either. It is a SPACE WESTERN with WAR FLASHBACKS, and I like neither space nor western nor war.
I gave it 5 or 6 episodes—and now […]

I don’t get out to movies very often these days, but I’m really glad that I was able to catch a showing of Juno. Not that it won’t be a fine DVD rental—it’s not a big-screen must-see in terms of being visually orgasmic—but if I get the rare chance to see a movie in the […]

I first stumbled across a clip from the British sketch comedy show Man Stroke Woman via Dooce, who linked to the hilarious Man Cold episode. Since it had my boyfriend Nick Frost in it, I was interested in seeing what the rest of the show was like, so we ordered up the first season on […]

I was HIGHLY SKEPTICAL of this DVD. First, educational DVDs tend to be boring. Second, I don’t buy in to the concept of educating children extra-early, as if being ahead of their peers at age 3 will buy them a lifetime of being superior human beings. Third, the Leap Frog frogs are […]