Category: Alex
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Propcast Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo
We\’re baaaack. With another hour (almost) of fun Simpeprop tomfoolery and skullduggery… or something like that. Irregardless [sic] enjoy the propcast!
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Inaugural Propcast
Are you a faithful SP reader? Now you can be a faithful SP listener! Like many other blogs we\’ve decided to jump on the podcast bandwagon with the \”propcast\”. Now you can enjoy the unique humor of Wade, Alex, and wadE in audio format. This is our first of many, so bear with us as…
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Hall of Flame
I\’m intending to write more on this year\’s baseball Hall of Fame election results after they\’re announced on Wednesday. But, after reading Jayson Stark\’s article on how he filled out his ballot, I will say this: Anyone who submitted a blank ballot should be banned from having a vote. I\’ll be happy to name names…
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The Cost of Life
Wanna watch the NCAA college basketball tournament (aka March Madness) online (presumably at work) this year? It\’ll cost you. If you\’re a cable or dish subscriber, you can \’authenticate\'[1. We\’ll see how well that works.] with your account and watch all the games for \’free\’. If you\’re not one of those people, you can pay…
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Thursday Night Movies: Unforgiven (1992)
Short version: The last of an era? Watching True Grit last week put me in a Western mood, and since I had never seen Unforgiven, I queued it up from The Netflix. Great cast (Eastwood, Hackman, Freeman, and Richard Harris). It won Best Picture (and Hackman won for Best Supporting). And I\’d bet it\’s the…
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Thursday Night Movies: True Grit (2010)
Short version: A simple story, wonderfully told. Highly recommended. Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. Directed by the Coen Brothers. True Grit is the story of a US Marshall and a Texas Ranger, teamed up to hunt down the killer of a little girl\’s father (at the insistence of the girl). Hailee Steinfeld does wonderfully…
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Thursday Night Movies: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Short version: Really quite enjoyable. Mr. Scott Walters took me up on my big screen offer this week, so TNM hit the Riverview Theater for 2011\’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the sequel to 2009\’s Sherlock Holmes. All the major talent returned for this one: Robert Downey Jr (Sherlock), Jude Law (Watson), Rachel McAdams…
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Thursday Night Hiatus
No movie this week. Not because I don\’t love you (I do). It\’s because it\’s my birthday! And I\’m gonna watch the end of the Wild game (because I\’m a glutton for punishment), and then start watching the first season of Community (in an attempt to finally get my sister off my back about it).…
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Thursday Night Movies: Triggermen
Short version: Donne Wahlberg\’s finest hour. Thank you, thank you, I\’ll be here all ze week. Make no mistake, this isn\’t a particularly good movie. It\’s a paint-by-numbers, ensemble cast, heist/gangster movie that doesn\’t vary from a formulaic script. There\’s some mistaken identity, and a hit gone wrong, and in the end some characters get…
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Thursday Night Movies: Moneyball
Short version: they took source material that I thought would be completely unwatchable as a movie, and turned it into a movie. Seriously. A movie about how the Oakland A\’s general manager used unconventional thinking and statistics to build a winning baseball team for the 2002 season. \’Statistics\’ and \’Baseball\’ are not words that you…