Literal Barrage

I'm sitting in an NTB waiting for the service techs to finish patching up a seeping flat, typing away on my MacBook Pro, posting courtesy of the mega-sweet Verizon Wireless V640 Express Card. My employer has been buying the PCMCIA "CardBus" offerings from Verizon for a little while now and, though the cards are [...]

My wife and I had seen trailers for On a Clear Day in various places and meant to see it (honestly, we did!) in theaters, but it slipped out before we were able to hit a theater. Well, as things go these days, it was released on DVD and thanks to the magic of [...]

Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Author: Susanna Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Fiction
Available From: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Jonathan Strange is an odd book. Its premise is simple: it's the early 19th century and the Napoleonic wars are raging in Europe. England, once the proud seat of European magic and magicians, has all but [...]

Game: Professor Fizzwizzle
Creators: Grubby Games
Genre: Puzzle/Action
Platform: Windows, Macintosh, Linux
Version Reviewed: Macintosh
I was graciously sent a review copy of Professor Fizzwizzle a few months ago, so this review is roughly (a few - 1) months late in its publication. However, I believe that the game is good enough to warrant the wait.
To call Fizzwizzle a [...]

Title: Old Man's War
Author: John Scalzi
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Available From: Barnes & Noble, Amazon
If my blogging has seemed a bit light and/or incoherent this week, it is entirely the fault of John Scalzi's Old Man's War. I lay down Monday night with the intention of reading to the end of a chapter [...]

Title: Attack of the Bacon Robots (Penny Arcade, Vol. 1) (henceforth AotBR)
Authors: Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Genre: Comic strip collection
Available From: Thinkgeek, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
The Setup
I've been a fan of the Penny Arcade crew since almost the very beginning of the strip and so I was extremely excited upon first hearing [...]

I've been a bit put off by the generally positive reviews of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by other Christian bloggers, thinking that perhaps I was too harsh on the movie. However, having stumbled across Steven Greydanus' review, I feel vindicated.
To quote from Greydanus' review:

Other changes are even more ill-advised, and sap [...]