Parks and Recreation (season 3)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{5/5} “I won’t publicly endorse a product unless I use it exclusively and I really believe in it. My only official recommendations are US Army issued moustache trimmers, Morton’s Salt, and the C.R. Lawrence fine two inch style oscillating knife blade.” The entire Pawnee government shuts down because it’s out of money, but after 3 months everyone is […]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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{3.5/5} “Home is now behind you. The world is ahead.” Gandalf the wizard invites Bilbo the hobbit on an adventure. At first Bilbo doesn’t want to go — he’s happy where he is, safe in the Shire with his books. But a group of dwarves are planning to retake their home, Erebor — the catch […]

Codex

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “But there was something magnetic about them, something that compelled respect, even the silly ones, like the Enlightenment treatise about how lightning was caused by bees. They were information, data, but not in the form he was used to dealing with it. They were non-digital, nonelectrical chunks of wood pulp and ink, leather and […]

Parks and Recreation (season 2)

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{4.5/5} “The mural that normally resides here is called ‘The Spirit of Pawnee.’ And it’s very controversial. We’ve had someone throw acid at it, tomato sauce. Someone tried to stab it once. We really need better security here. We also need better, less offensive, history.” Leslie marries two penguins in the zoo for publicity, and […]

Wreck-It Ralph

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{4.5/5} “I’m bad, and that’s good. I will never be good, and that’s not bad. There’s no one I’d rather be then me.” Ralph is the bad guy in a video game called “Fix-It Felix, Jr.” Lately he’s been wondering if he really has to be bad all the time and why no one wants […]

Burning Chrome

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{4/5} “When Rikki showed up, he needed one in the worst way. He was fading fast, and smart money was already whispering that the edge was off his game. He needed that one big score, and soon, because he didn’t know any other kind of life, and all his clocks were set for hustler’s time, […]

The Beekeeper’s Pupil

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{4.5/5} “It’s hard to put into words the effect he has on the household, being both its master and a blind man. I caught a glimpse of him this morning seated at the harpsichord, just beginning to play, with such pain on his face that I hardly dared to look. For an hour the house […]

Parks and Recreation (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “This is where the rubber of government meets the road of actual human beings.” Leslie is the deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department in Pawnee, Indiana. When she discovers a pit that’s been abondoned she vows to turn it into a park. Ann, a nurse and the girlfriend of a man who fell […]

Skyfall

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{5/5} “What did you expect, an exploding pen?” A hard drive is stolen from MI6 that has on it a list of agents embedded in terrorist organizations around the world. James Bond chased the person who stole the hard drive and is wrestling with him on top of a train when another agent has them […]

Grosse Pointe Blank

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{5/5} “They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they’ve all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? ‘I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?’” Martin is a professional killer. Initially […]