Nothing about raising young children is simple or straightforward, especially those small things that should be. School lunches must be void of any and all nuts, screen time must be limited (forty-three-point-five minutes per day, according to recent studies), and junior hockey practice starts alternately at 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, twice a week. And […]
The post-modern explosion of self-help books kicked off with the success of How to Make Friends and Influence People in 1936. A steady stream of such books followed, offering practical-but-obvious-when-you-think-about-it advice to a population without internet access, perhaps culminating with the business-oriented The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Then came a barrage of feel-good […]
For better or for worse, the final season of Breaking Bad is half over. As discussed previously, AMC has decided to spread the remaining episodes of Breaking Bad over the next two years. Eight episodes have aired thus far in 2012, and eight more are expected during the summer of 2013. Rather than ride the […]
The most satisfying moment in any underdog story occurs when, almost inevitably, our hero must pull himself up by his or her bootstraps, then either succeeds or fails based on his or her merit alone. The newest season of Breaking Bad finds its protagonist, Walter White, doing exactly that. The events which concluded the previous […]
Anti-heroes are a puzzling breed. Why do we cheer for Michael Corleone, The Godfather’s despicable mafia Don? Why do we root for Travis Bickle, the psychotic serial killer from Taxi Driver? Why do we want to see Sonny, the armed bank robber from Dog Day Afternoon who deserves absolutely none of our respect, succeed with […]
Louie is not suitable for everyone. If you are pregnant or may become pregnant, have a chronic respiratory disorder, have children, are divorced, or are easily disturbed by vulgarity, consult with your physician before exposing yourself to episodes of Louie. The show has just returned to FX for its third season, so now is the […]
Zombies are nothing new. They’ve been a staple of the silver screen, starting in 1968 with Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, to today’s modern 28 Weeks Later and Zombieland. Zombies feature prominently in books, comics, music (think Michael Jackson’s Thriller), and especially video games. Yet somehow, it took until 2010 for the zombie hordes […]