Author's Note

Never fear, avid readers: I am still here.  The past few weeks have been busy.  Professor Goodtimes moved out of town to go be a nerd in grad school.  Another friend moved across town and needed big strong men to carry her things, so I went and supervised.  Mostly, though, I have returned to doing some writing for my book, which means that writing for this site has suffered accordingly.  Hopefully someday you'll be able to read what I've been writing these past few weeks, but in the meantime know that I still have some movie (and book) reviews in the works, as well as a review for a certain Nintendo 64 game that's more than worthy of the attention of the Angry Nintendo Nerd.

However, those are going to be on hold for a while because I am going on vacation.  If anyone needs me, they'll just have to wait about two weeks.  See you on the other side.

A Note on My Failure

I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of you reading this are wondering where my posts have gone to lately, what my thoughts are on Prince of Persia, A-Team, and Jonah Hex, and how my month of summer classes went.

I guess you could say that all of these are related.  My summer class is over and gone now.  The joy of taking a course at a community college after having spent the past few years at a state university is that, for my first test, I drove to campus after work, picked up my textbook (last one in stock, whew!), skimmed the first 11 chapters for a few minutes, then went in and got a 100 on my test.  This class was stupidly easy, but it did take up a fair amount of my time (that first test aside), giving me less nights on which to see the movies I've dedicated myself to seeing for the sake of this blog.  Also, during this time my wife and several of her co-workers (all female, it's worth noting) spent three Tuesdays in a row watching each of the three Twilight movies, thus taking up more nights that would otherwise be spent watching dudes parachute to safety in a CGI tank.  Add this to the fact that Jonah Hex was in - and out! - of theaters faster than it takes my 18-pound thundercat to make it to the kitchen upon hearing the food hit her dish, and voila!  I have my first trio of missed movies!

I think A-Team, at least, is still in a handful of theaters somewhere in the city, but since I've already missed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Jonah Hex: The Nail in Megan Fox's Career's Coffin, I figure I might as well make a trilogy of my failures and just wait until the three of them hit Netflix in the fall.  The way I see it, as long as I watch the movies before the year's end, I still win, so don't you worry: at some point this year, you'll finally learn exactly what I think of these TV show, videogame, and comic book adaptations, respectively.  In the meantime, if you need to find me, I'll be busy seeing Inception.  And Predators.  And Toy Story 3.  And Despicable Me.  And whatever the hell else comes out this month.

Oh Noes! My Summer!

Thanks to a long and very uninteresting story that ends with me having been two hours short of officially graduating for some time now, I have enrolled in a summer school course that will last through the end of June.

Because of this, I'll be spending this month primarily reading a textbook, so you probably won't see any book reviews until July, with the exception of one book that I read recently that I just haven't reviewed quite yet.  I'm still pretty drained from The Knight and The Wizard, so I've been reading some books (In a Sunburnt Country, by Bill Bryson - known as Down Under internationally - and Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell) that are only considered fiction by people who don't believe in traveling or the human brain.  Both are excellent, by the way, but since they've nothing to do with sci-fi or fantasy, I don't feel the need to review them on this blog.

Anyway, my focus for the next month will be on the horde of movies I've yet to see/review; namely, Robin Hood, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Splice, A-Team, The Karate Kid, Jonah Hex, Toy Story 3, and Twilight Saga: Eclipse.  I'll have my work cut out for me, it would seem.

Also, another quick update for my 2010 movie preview.  Red Dawn, which was set to come out November 24, has been pushed back because its studio, MGM, is, shall we say, having some technical difficulties at this time.  I haven't heard of a new release date yet, but I think we can safely say that it will be at least 2011 before we get to watch a group of American punks take on Communism.

Stay tuned.

Let's Start Things Off...

As the title of this post (and the lack of any previous post) suggests, this is the first posting on this blog, so I figured that I had better start things off by explaining what exactly this blog is, so get ready because it's a doozy.

This is a blog about very little.

In my eagerness to break into the writing business, it eventually occurred to me that, hey, I'm not getting very much experience now that I've graduated and am now perpetually stuck behind a desk in a windowless room with the world's largest, slowest clock. So I decided that I had better start writing something. Now don't worry; I don't expect anyone to actually read this garbage. This is, after all, a blog about very little, if not nothing.

Now that I've stated that again, allow me to say what this blog actually is about, or rather, what it will contain (for I have already established the reason for this futility). This blog is a series of light, casual reviews of whatever bit of media I happen upon - namely, movies, videogames, books, TV shows, and perhaps the occasional music CD (or MP3 or whatever format proves itself popular in the moment).

WARNING: I am a nerd (defined, depending on the source, as either a "stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person" or an "intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit"... In this context, I at least hope that the latter is more accurate). Most of the reviews posted are, as the blog title may suggest, somehow to do with sci-fi (not SyFy, as the Sci-Fi channel has now taken to calling itself) and fantasy, so if you don't at least in some capacity love Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, you may as well stop reading now. That's what I enjoy, so if you don't then I just don't see the point in keeping up this charade, do you?

I can't say how often I will be updating this site; there are, after all, only so many reviews that a person can take, but I'll do what I can. Hopefully you'll stay tuned, but even if you only pop in every once in a while, I'll be thrilled to have you. Just please don't think worse of me if I at some point in my ramblings take a shot at the Jonas Brothers.

Party on.