Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category:
WARNING: Sesame Street may be dangerous for your child
One of the items I put on my Amazon Wish List (go ahead – click the link and buy me something…. I’ll wait) this year was Sesame Street: Old School, a DVD compilation of shows from 1970s-era Sesame Street. Back when The Count was actually scary, Mister Snuffleupagus was still invisible to everyone except Bird,
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The Atari 2600 celebrates 30 years of low-rez fun
As my 35th birthday approaches, an old friend is celebrating 30 years… the Atari 2600! Retro Thing is doing an “Atari Week” feature, with several pieces about the first device that defined “video game” for the majority of us thirty-somethings. The Atari 2600′s impact upon the gaming world was immense. No less than eight variations
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Star Diamond
Some 20 Christmases ago, my grandparents gave me a program for my Commodore 64 called Adventure Writer. Unlike the rest of the games I owned, this one actually allowed you to create games – specifically, text-based adventure games such as Zork. For all practical purposes, the genre – known these days among enthusiasts as Interactive
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It's about time
This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD Fans can look forward to a September filled with classic Star Wars nostalgia, led by the premiere of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy video game and the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic Star Wars trilogy. I really don’t mind most
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Now this is fun
Just found a link to Dean Gray presents American Edit – basically they took Green Day’s “American Idiot” and took bits and pieces of other songs and mashed them all together. So you have “Boulevard of Broken Songs” which combines “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” with Oasis’ hit from a decade ago, “Wonderwall” (with a cameo
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Why are the worst songs the most popular?
“Hollaback Girl” first song with one million commercial downloads For the first time since the advent of commercial digital music downloads, a recording has passed the 1,000,000 mark in download sales. The song, former Billboard #1 “Hollaback Girl” from Gwen Stefani’s debut album Love. Angel. Music., had sales of approximately 995,000 downloads as of Friday,
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Now this is some information we all can use
How to Survive a Freestyle Battle Rap …cuz’ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a potentially dangerous situation where I needed finely-honed battle rap skills.
Awesome
Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character Here are the rules: Pretend to be a dictator or television sitcom character. I’ll try to guess who you are by asking simple yes/no questions. If you’re not sure of the answer to a question, answer “No”. If you forgot who you were pretending to be, go take
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Bennifer Part II: Electric Boogaloo
It’s official – I’m already sick to death of the whole Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes thing. I am in no way interested in their relationship, and I fail to see why anyone would place any importance in what they do or don’t do. Yet I KNOW that the media will bombard us with every little insignificant
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