Happy birthday Aria
Ed’s daughter Aria turns one today. I just want to wish Aria a very happy birthday! May you recieve lots of toys and goodies, and remember, stay away from the dog food—it’s not for people. I had to learn that the hard way.
May 2006
This is a list of archived entries published in May 2006.
X-Men: The Last Blurb
(Note: Yeah, I said my “blurbs” would not be real reviews. Apparently I lied. Sosumi.)
It’s rare that I get out to the theater to see any movie these days, what with $10 ticket prices that include ten minutes of ads followed by enough film trailers that by the time the movie comes on, I’ve forgotten [...]
“Action” figure?
I don’t watch Lost, but mostly because I know I would probably become obsessed with it and I have enough obsessions in my life. But I was amused to see that ball (as in base) enthusiast Todd McFarlane is producing Lost “action” figures. The first wave of statu–I mean, figures will feature Merry from Lord [...]
Pearl Jam^3
So thanks to my very good friend Mollie, I was able to see Pearl Jam last night, thus continuing my streak of seeing them every time they’ve come around since my first concert in 1994 (the famous Orpheum concert, which singer Eddie Vedder referred to more than once last night).
They played a good assortment of [...]
Pearl Jam^2
Last Thursday I ended up driving all over southern Mass. (long story), but it afforded me the opportunity to give Pearl Jam’s new self-titled album the kind of listen it deserves. Ever since Vs., I’ve never liked a Pearl Jam album on the first run-through. Ever. Some are easier to love than others—Yield and Binaural, [...]
Da Vinci Code Quest II
Turns out I did manage to become one of the finalists for the Google Da Vinci Code Quest. DG and I received the prop cryptex yesterday. The password for the cryptex is printed right on the packaging—”GRAIL”—but DG was highly amused to discover that the prop was so simple, you only need to line up [...]
Hulk smash
As most of my readers probably know, I collect action figures. Recently I’ve been after the Hulk vs. Leader two-pack from Toy Biz. There have been a few Hulk figures over the years, but not many compare to this beauty. Or beast, as it were.
Hulk is even getting an Abomination to fight. The (store) hunt [...]
ToyFare #107
Issue #107 of ToyFare magazine hit the stands today, with two pieces I wrote. One is my usual “What’s In Stores” section (page 107), and the other is an Onion-style joke news article, “FCC says ‘Heck no!’ to Hellboy” (page 14), in which the FCC forces Hellboy to change his name to “Heckboy” to make [...]
Da Vinci Code Quest
Well, I just finished the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google. DG and I have been doing it for over a month, but I had to be ready for the last puzzle, because the first 10,000 people to solve it get a free cryptex prop. It’s actually another part of the game, but we care [...]
New Hellboy videogame info
After more than a year since the initial announcement, Konami has finally released some screenshots and a cinematic trailer for their upcoming Hellboy videogame.
The overall response from fandom seems to be “meh,” but I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. The fighting system sounds interesting. A lot of complaints seem to [...]