Why Heroes Failed

One of the most striking revelations I keep having, as I move forward through Lost, is just how much Heroes wanted to be this show when it was on the air. Being pretty familiar with the first two seasons of Heroes, it’s hard to shake the sensation that they were the little kids on the […]

Survivor: Redemption Island (week four)

Can I just say this on the subject of “honor” and “integrity”? If you really possess either of those things as a hard-line quality, and you truthfully live your entire life with those tenets at its very core… why would you play on a skeevy gameshow like Survivor? Everybody lies in this game. Everybody. […]

Etria Takes Shape

For the first time in years I am actually caught up with Survivor. I’m going to try and get into the groove of weekly write-ups starting tomorrow and hopefully through the end of the season.

Until then, here’s a great shot of the Etrian project taking shape on our Minecraft server. Excavation has been completed, […]

Survivor: Redemption Island (week three)

So the Ometepe alliance is Rob/Natalie/Ashley/Grant, with Phillip being strung along as a fifth? That’s a pretty convenient set-up, I guess. If they’re smart, they’ll figure out a way to cut Rob loose before the merge.

First thing to happen was the Redemption Island duel. Two members from each tribe (Andrea and Ashley from […]

Survivor: Redemption Island (week two)

The episode opens with Francesca rooting through her supplies on Redemption Island. She talks big about how she’s glad she’s all alone instead of back with her tribe, and how she’s going to use the time to relax, blah blah blah… but she’s not fooling anyone. Nobody wants to go to Redemption Island, ever, […]

Survivor: Redemption Island (week one)

Hot damn! Survivor’s back — and it doesn’t look to suck this time!

I’ve come to discover that I am not a fan of the show Survivor. I’ve learned this because it seems like my favorite seasons are always the ones with the best players, and the first season I couldn’t finish watching was the […]

These spammers are getting harder to please.

I went ahead and turned comment moderation off when I realized that I hadn’t had to manually trash a spam comment for at least a couple months. Apparently my spam-detection plug-in is pretty savvy! That got me to thinking, though, about whether there were any “false positives” sitting around in the ol’ spam folder. I […]

Survivor: Tocantins, week 1

Survivor’s back! Hooray!

So yeah, two things real quick, I guess:

Yes, I watch Survivor. I won’t apologize for it. Yes, I’m a few weeks late. I won’t apologize for that either.

I’ve got the first few episodes of the new season (pronounced “token cheese” if Jeff Probst is to be believed) on the ol’ […]

An open letter to the guys from Ghost Hunters.

Dear Grant and Jason,

I want to start by saying: I really respect what you guys do. Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of 21st century life it can be easy to neglect the people doing dangerous or unseemly jobs, poking around in places of the world most folks would just as soon avoid. You […]