The Boston dating scene can be a little bit weird, because of the weird demographics. Women outnumber men to a huge degree. According to one MIT researcher's calculations, "if each single male in Boston were to eliminate all undesirable matches, he is still left with about 2,500 female options." It's great if you're a straight male or a gay woman, but for gay men and straight women, it can be tough.
Indy and Wood Sprite have wanted to see Mr. Peabody and Sherman for months. While I wasn’t nearly as excited as they were, I was excited to go see a movie! We used to go together around once a month, but with so many awful children’s movies lately, we’ve only seen three or four in theaters throughout the past year or so.
You know, after all the hoopla and formality surrounding the Oscars, I thought it’d be an excellent time to tackle a far less uppity awards show: the MTV Movie Awards. Nominations were announced just a few days ago, and honestly, this is one of my favorite awards shows, with good reason. It’s fun!
Aw, did I fool you? That’s the name of the theme song of The Lego Movie. I didn’t mean that the movie itself was awesome.
It was very good—don’t get me wrong—but not as awesome as people might say. The redeeming qualities of the movie include its wonderful use of Legos, its humor, and its surprise story arc (which occurs near the end of the film and I won’t give it away). All of this made it a fun way to pass the time.
After leaving off on a rather mediocre episode before the Winter Olympic break, it’s nice to see that Community can come back with another great installment. ‘Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality’ may be short on the gimmicks that people have come to expect from Dan Harmon, but it definitely excels in the character development department. As a Community fan that had grown despondent over the state of the characters on the show, I am glad that someone out there feels the same way that I do and has taken steps to ensure that the characters we know and love are being turned into real people again.
The biggest news in the industry this week is, by far, the death of much-beloved director/actor/writer, Harold Ramis. But even before people have begun to mourn, that news, naturally, has to provoke other sorts of news. The kind of news we’d rather not have to hear about. The first being the hate that actor Bill Murray has recently attracted regarding the brief statement he gave concerning Ramis’ death. This is what
“Harold Ramis and I together did the National Lampoon Show off Broadway, Meatballs, Stripes, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.”
People are up-in-arms that
If you are not or never have been a preteen girl, you may never have heard of origami fortune tellers. Maybe it's different now, but when I was a kid, origami fortune tellers were almost the exclusive province of girls.
Kid culture is so strange and insular, I have no recollection of anyone teaching me how to make one. The knowledge seems to have condensed out of thin air, forming in our young brains one day. I just remember that we all made them incessantly. Usually in class when we should have been paying attention to the teacher.
Today is the first-ever Multicultural Children’s Book Day. InCultureParent has some great recommendations and ideas to use, but I’d like to personally recommend books by Yuyi Morales, Wood Sprite’s favorite author and illustrator. Her absolute favorites are Los Gatos Black on Halloween and Little Night, our bedtime book.
After several weeks of enjoying expanding releases of several notable Oscar-nominated movies, this weekend's offerings look mighty slim. In fact, there is only one major new wide release: the action-fantasy flick I, Frankenstein, starring Aaron Eckhart as Dr. Frankenstein's famous monster. To each his own, but this movie doesn't appeal much to me at all.
The first thing I have to say about the "boyfriend sweater curse" is that it could stand to be more inclusive. Calling it the "boyfriend sweater curse" is only valid for heterosexual female knitters, or homosexual male knitters. It leaves lesbian knitters and straight male knitters out in the cold. But I digress.
According to this curse, if you knit your partner a sweater, they will break up with you soon afterward. It's an interesting idea because although it sounds silly, it turns out to have a lot of validity.
