Geek Soap Box

I’m not sure exactly what it was that led me to the point of purchase.  Maybe it was the hype and nostalgia emanating from the Cranky Conservative’s site.  Maybe it was the relatively brief number of matches featuring an interesting array raw in-ring talent.  Maybe it was just that I, also, needed the closure of [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, “House, MD” could be my favorite television show of all time.  The combination of pithy, sarcastic humor, witty banter, and grave seriousness match my own twisted personality nearly perfectly, and I can easily watch each episode time and again, one after another, without even remotely suffering from boredom or [...]

Seven Things I Learned While Watching 2012 1. It’s no Independence Day. I am a huge fan of one of Roland Emmerich’s previous works, Independence Day. ID4 was a nearly perfect reincarnation of the spectacular book and movie War of the Worlds, told for a modern-day audience. 2012 lacks every element that made ID4 so [...]

It probably started off simply enough — after two relative disappointments in Donkey Kong 3 and Mario Bros., but with the quarter-sucking success of the original Donkey Kong merely a short memory away — Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto and his team got together to create a new game featuring the popular plumber from Brooklyn for [...]

Tickets to the show: $206.55Parking near the Garden: $43.00Souvenirs: $110.00Seeing the greatest American rock band in history at their note-for-note perfection best: Eh, maybe not priceless, but definitely worth the cost of admission. As my buddy Big Daddy Jeff proclaimed via text message, “Don Henley: idiotic Marxist by day, brilliant capitalist by night.” Well said. [...]