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The Critic Wannabe

Why would you do this to us, Dad?" "Because you are crackheads, children.

About Me

Writing, writing, writing. If it's not here on a blog, then I'm writing American Knight for Mask and Cape Comics. Rick Lozano is drawing it and it looks great (go be his friend). The first issue (Mask and Cape Double Feature #1) is available for purchase at Carol and John's Comic Shop in Cleveland (coincidentally, where I work). We're all hard at work on issue #2 (and #3 and #4 and #5). Or I'm reading (comic books, novels, biographies, newspapers, whatever). Or watching something. I watch an obscene amount of television for someone who has no cable or Tivo (my VCRs work just fine, thank you). Or I'm watching a movie or three. Oh, and that's when I'm not working at Carol and John's Comic Shop (quoted in the Wall Street Journal - woo hoo!) and Discount Drug Mart. I'm also involved in the podcast "The Aftershow." It can be found at www.theaftershowpodcast.com My buddies and I talk about the movie we just watched and record that conversation for the podcast. Good times. Here on Myspace, it's all about the blog. Stop by. Take a look. Feel free to drop in any commentary or simply subscribe (I love all my readers - I can be an attention whore). And remember - Go Tribe!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Naomi Watts, David Lynch, Jodie Foster, Woody Allen, Savage Steve Holland, anybody who's played James Bond (Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig)

My Blog

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Day 1264I like great television.  Stuff like Twin Peaks, The Prisoner and Lost are fantastic televisions shows, and, arguably, works of art.  But, as you can tell by the televisions shows I do watch, ...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:23:00 GMT

Random Thoughts on a Friday Night

Day 1261Does anybody else think the reboot of the Spider-Man movies could suck big time?  With Sam Raimi, you knew you had a fanboy at the helm, and even with the mediocre third film, it at least had ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:35:00 GMT

The Critic Wannabe (reviews Twilight: New Moon)

  Day 1255 There are certain things that happen in my life that just give me pause.  Being told by one of my Sunday School students that I look like Tim Taylors friend on Home Improveme...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:31:00 GMT

My favorite films of the last 10 years (Part Three 2007-2009)

  Day 1248 Heres the final blog for my favorite films of the decade.  Its been fun reminiscing about the flicks.  And like Jerry said, 2007 was a heckuva year.  So without further ad...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:29:00 GMT

My favorite films of the last 10 years (Part Two 2004-2006)

  Day1247 In continuing my favorite films of each year, I continue with& 5). 2004  Closer There were six of us who went to see this in the theater when it came out, and 4 peop...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:52:00 GMT

My favorite films of the last 10 years (Part One 2000-2003)

  Day 1246 I hadnt thought of writing about the Best movies of the decade until everyone else started writing about them.  And rather than jump on that particular bandwagon (which so ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:14:00 GMT

The Critic wannabe (reviews Avatar)

Day 1244AvatarMy friends and I decided to conduct an experiment - see Avatar in 2D first to see if the story and the visuals really did require/need the 3D treatment.  Also, because when you rewatch t...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:23:00 GMT

Some more films that are "Best of the Decade"

Day 1224Royce Clemens has written a slew of blogs detailing the top 50 films of the past decade, and it's one of the best examples of critical writing I've read in a little while.  You can find the li...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:51:00 GMT

The Critic Wannabe (has 6 mini-reviews for your Thanksgiving reading)

.................... Day 1209 .. .. Alright.  Its been 17 days since Ive written something (posting The Button doesnt count), and the amount of blog reads Ive been getting is doing ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:00 GMT

"The Button" has been making me laugh all week

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/44b3d8f432/the-bu... The Button - watch more funny videos
Posted by on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:46:00 GMT