Welcome to Five by Friday! Star Trek: Beyond hits theaters today, and since only 2/3 of us are Trekkies, we wanted to do something that paid tribute to the latest entry in the Trek canon while still allowing all three of us to participate. So instead of listing our favorite Trek characters or episodes, we’ve decided to […]
Today marks the first official day of summer, (though if you live anywhere like us you’ve already been experiencing summer levels of heat for a few weeks now) and thoughts start to turn to vacations and relaxing instead of work or school. And while I’m not in school anymore and summer vacations seem like nothing […]
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get anything done in a soundless vacuum. The opportunity for distraction is far too great. Someone walking by, the sound of construction nearby, a conversation at the next table… no matter where you are, the possibility of your focus being anywhere but on what you’re working on is […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! This week I’m taking the reins and talking about my top five favorite characters with beards, because men with beards are a delight and a blessing and we are all lucky to live in a world where men can grow hair on their faces. Join us in the comments or on your […]
Avenging Force is a year old today! To celebrate, we’re doing it the best way we know how: in song! Here are a few of our favorite nerdy selections from YouTube. Both of us are big fans of a cappella and as we’re also both classically-trained musicians (the more you know), we appreciate well-played instruments as […]
For some reason, it is incredibly hard for movie studios to take a book and translate it to screen without royally screwing it up. To my mind, the best book-to-film adaptations in recent memory are the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hunger Games movies (so far). To make a truly good book adaptation, […]
Around the Web We said goodbye to an icon of entertainment and comedy, as Robin Williams passed away at the age of 63. He starred in countless films that made an indelible mark on all of our lives, including (but not even remotely limited to) Hook, Dead Poet’s Society, Aladdin, and Good Morning, Vietnam. He […]