Three years of yammering on…

C.S. Lewis on living by hope

Five songs that altered my perceptions

My superpower, or why I don’t watch sports
Generally speaking, when you’re with a bunch of guys you can always count on one topic of conversation coming up: sports. Every guy watches sports, right? Maybe not all sports, but you can pretty much count on baseball, football, basketball, or hockey (at least in the US) as safe topics where guys have at least some knowledge of the teams and how the season is going. Not me. But I have a good reason. I have a superpower. I have the power to make a team lose a game. And I can prove it. If I could control this power, I could use it for good, but unfortunately it’s out of my hands. It only works against the team I’m rooting for, and its effects greatly

Star Wars, like you’ve never seen it before
I mentioned this a while back, but this guy decided to use the power of the internet to break Star Wars up into 15 second segments and have people submit their versions of those segments. Then his plan is to put those segments back together into one “cohesive” movie. Apparently he’s pretty far along with it, and now we have a trailer! Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo. I gotta tell youR

Firefly is back, Singing Batman, and Cyborg Rats
Seriously, where else are you going to get a combination like that? I’ve got three video clips for you today, and one of them is not fiction. See if you can figure out which one. Firefly is back! That’s right, Nathan Fillion has suited up one more time as Mal Reynolds. Unfortunately, it’s only a reference to his Firefly character on his new show, Castle, but it’s pretty cool, with a couple of good lines and music cues. Singing Batman! Okay, Batman doesn’t sing in this clip, but he does in this musical episode of Batman: The Brave and The Bold. To get a se

SyFy shows reviews: SGU and Sanctuary
So here we have week 4 of Stargate Universe and week 3 of Sanctuary. As I mentioned last week, on SGU they’re heading for a close encounter with a star. It’s obvious to everyone but the characters that the ship is doing this on purpose to recharge its energy supply. So really this episode holds no drama other than wondering if any secondary characters will be killed when they try to mutiny in order to be one of the “survivors” to end up on the lifeboat/shuttle. What it does have are some pretty good effects when they do get to the star. It’s really pretty cool. They also get to use a slingshot maneuver to get the shuttle back, which is very cool as w

Why Jar-Jar is the most hated character in Star Wars
The little clip shows exactly why Jar-Jar (and to some extent, the entire Phantom Menace film) is so unliked by so many. And it’s hilarious. Skip straight to the 1:00 mark to start. You’re not missing anything but the standard film. Star Wars, starring Benny Hill as Jar-Jar… that’s just inspired. That it works so well is proof that Lucas had lost his mind when he wrote that character. Share and Enjoy: