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As of Monday, 12-23, I have received the last of the 12 Days of Holiday Bullshit gifts.  According to http://www.holidaybullshit.com/, I definitely received a number of these gifts very out of order, and as of typing this up on Monday evening, Bullshit 12 isn’t supposed to arrive until tomorrow.  Here is a breakdown

3 more bullshits arrived on Thursday and Friday.  Something interesting has happened as well.  You can go to http://www.holidaybullshit.com/ and find out what “official” day each gift you have lines up with.  There are two gifts I have not received yet that are on the site (I couldn’t contain myself from the spoilers, but

When I got home from work on Tuesday , 12-17-13, I received two more gifts!  Below are the contents of bullshits 4 and 5. Bullshit 4: CLUSTERFUCK! (a brand new game by the Cards Against Humanity team)   The full CLUSTERFUCK! game can be downloaded in pdf format at http://clusterfuckgame.com/   Bullshit

Looking for 10 Days Or Whatever of Kwanzaa information?  Check out my coverage here.   In the middle of November, I was tipped off that Cards Against Humanity had launched a campaign called 12 Days Of Holiday Bullshit.  If you were signed up for their mailing list, you got an email about

NOTE: This review is spoiler-free, only mentioning what can be seen in the trailers for the film. When you think of Disney, happy, cheery things come to mind.  Mickey Mouse, Woody and the gang from Toy Story, and just to name one more, Mary Poppins.  With this in mind, I was quite

This review contains spoilers: It’s been about four years since I read The Book Thief.  My memory of it is very hazy other than the fact that I loved it, and couldn’t believe it was considered a book for young adults while reading it.  Going into the advance screening I saw Wednesday

SPOILER-FREE REVIEW After returning from seeing Thor: The Dark World, I’m still trying to form my opinion of it.  I felt the same way after seeing Iron Man 3.  While I didn’t dislike the movie, I definitely didn’t love it either.  Post-The Avengers, it’s proving to be very difficult to tell exciting individual

Max Edelman is not a name I expect many, if any puregeekery readers to recognize.  However, Max was one of the most amazing, inspirational people I have ever had the honor of knowing, and I am sad to say he passed away this past Monday, November 4th after 91 years on this

NOTE: This is in no way a review of the 2012 movie Much Ado About Nothing I, like many others in the geek culture, am a Joss Whedon junkie.  I was introduced to the Whedonverse with Firefly (unfortunately after it had been canceled and Serenity had already been made).  I loved it

Though I consider myself a Chucky fan, I have never seen one of his movies in the theater.  When I was younger, Child’s Play 2 and 3 always seemed to be playing on some basic cable channel, and whenever I came across one of these movies while flipping channels, I would always