Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

Downtown Greensboro Dinner Recommendation?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Mrs. Stew and I are going out to dinner tonight, and had hoped to find something nice in downtown Greensboro. Preferably someplace charming. Slightly fancy is fine, but cozy is good too. I’ve decided to harness the Power of the Blog to get some recommendations. Comment now – our culinary fate is in your hands!

The two faces of Fox

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

The Parents Television Council recently named four Fox shows as being “worst for families”. From cnn.com: Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies “The War at Home,” “The Family Guy” and “American Dad,” topped a parents group’s annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing. The group’s president, L. Brent Bozell, said […]

Aslan, the lukewarm lion?

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Time has an article on the upcoming Narnia movies, wondering if they’ll maintain their Christian message. There will be an easy way to tell, they say: The White Witch: “That human creature is mine. His life is forfeit to me. His blood is my property.” Aslan (later) : “The Witch knew the Deep Magic. But […]

Sodor’s dark underbelly

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Watching Thomas the Tank Engine today with my 3 year old, it occurred to me that something’s not quite right on the Island of Sodor. No, it’s not the fact that the trains talk — although it is a little weird that their mouths don’t move. In the episode we watched, Sir Topham Hatt finds […]

All your chiken are belong to lamp

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Artwork from a children’s puzzle belonging to one of my kids. Update: For those of you who are unfamiliar with the reference of this post’s title, take a look here.

Plague sweeps through major urban areas

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Its consequences are deadly. Its reach was unforseen. Luckily, it’s not happening in real life: Players of Blizzard’s incredibly popular World of Warcraft are reporting the outbreak of a virtual plague that is spreading across major cities in the virtual land of Azeroth, infecting player characters at an alarming rate. The trouble started when Blizzard […]