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Big News!

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In a couple of months, I am moving to San Diego!

Good times in NYC!

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Great weekend! Lots of goodies (like this frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity 3), lots of walking, and saw lots of cool stuff.

Pics on Flickr!

Wheel of sushi!

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Or, wheel of heavenly treats! I miss Japanese sushi.

Yummy cherries jubilee

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Star Trek

So I finally saw Star Trek this weekend. Now, I'm not a Trekkie by any means; in fact, my favorite sci-fi series is Babylon 5. The characters are well-developed, and the plot is cohesive and builds on itself. The histories of the characters are never compromised. However, I do love the original Star Trek and like the Next Generation. The other spin-off series, eh. I just never got into them at all.

I was skeptical about the new movie, I admit. I just couldn't see someone else playing Captain Kirk or any of the other iconical characters, and indeed the actors were still somehow not really those characters in the same way that Takei and Shatner were Sulu and Kirk, respectively. I couldn't get past the fact that Zachary Quinto was merely playing Spock, not that he _was_ Spock, like Leonard Nimoy.

However, the acting was good, the special effects great, and the plotline was not too hokey. I admit, I squee'd a bit when Scotty and Bones said their famous lines, and seeing the costumes was great. I was thankful that they mostly retained the feel of the original series.

Adventureland

I've kind of decided to use this blog as more of a review springboard than anything else. I might have some random, funny thoughts that merit posting, but most of those will be left to Twittering.

I also really want to get my Weirdos blog launched, sure to satisfy all of your weirdo cravings!!!!

Anyways, I saw the movie, Adventureland, last night, which I thought would be funny in the way that I enjoy --- you know, things that an 11-year-old boy finds hilarious. Yeah, that's me and my sense of humor.

It was pretty funny, but the plot was pretty lame, and the movie itself just kind of limped along from bland situation to bland situation. The basis of the movie is this: Lame guy graduates university in Philly. Somehow, through 4 years of college in a major city, this guy has retained his junior high innocence and has not grown in the least jaded. Oh, and he's a lit major to boot. OK, I believe that one.

He gets dumped in the first scene, because he's, you know, such a nice guy, and of course, girls only go for boys that are mean to them, right?

Cut to, his parents have financial problems, blah, blah, blah, he has to like, get a job and pay for grad school himself! Oh noes!

So, he gets a job at the local park, where he meets some SO WACKY characters, and falls in love with a girl who is cool. I mean, she wears a HUSKER DU t-shirt and everything. In 4 years of uni, he never met one of these girls?

Hilarity ensues, he gets the girl, he loses the girl, girl forgives him, he forgives her, screen goes black.

It sounds like I really hated this film, but it was easy and, for the most part, fun. The only real funny scenes were the ones involving Bill Hader, who played the park owner, with some funny one-liners by Martin Starr, who had far too little to do in this film.

I also felt that the main character was clearly a part written for Michael Cera, as the actor that played James certainly did his best impression of Michael Cera's characters in Juno and Superbad.

All in all, I'd say this one is a rental at best, and only for fans of Superbad and other movies from the Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared alumni.