http://www.lykaon.com We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes... Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:06:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So how long does one have to go between posts before a blog should just be retired as a failure?  This blog has to be coming close to that limit. Here are some quick movie reviews of my holiday movie experience.  I wanted to watch Alvin & the Chipmunks Squeakquel but ... http://www.lykaon.com/2010/01/04/avatar-sherlock-holmes/ Every Easter, my family has a tradition of going camping.  When I say my family, I don't mean my mom and sister.  I mean every member of the extended family who is alive and capable of camping. These days it's actually been taken down a generation for population reasons, but when ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/08/28/easter-elephants/ If you would have told me back in May that I would be sitting in August reviewing one of the best movies of the summer I would have told you that you were crazy.  The beginning of summer 2009 had the goods, but the end of the summer was destined ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/08/11/yo-joe/ Believe it or not, I've been anxiously awaiting this day. It has been a while since my last review of a Harry Potter movie, and that was a fun -- if somewhat controversial -- review to write. I'm not a Harry Potter fan.  I have read only the first book, ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/07/16/the-half-blood-prince/ During the lonely summer months when network television has abandoned me, I search for anything to tide me over. I play video games, watch reruns of What I Like About You, Gilmore Girls and Star Trek: TNG, and I desperately search for something new (some good, and some bad). This led me ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/07/15/mondegreens/ Looking at photos of John Dillinger, he looked every bit as smug as he was.  He was a textbook definition of confidence, guts, and cajones.  There was nothing John Dillinger was afraid of, and this man without fear helped to inspire the FBI and define the word gangster. It was a ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/07/14/public-enemies/ Public Service Announcement: The man on the right is not Michael Bay. Though he has been posing as him for many years, recent evidence suggests that Michael Bay is really a 13-year-old boy who has hired the man on the right as his frontman. Either that, or the guy on the right ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/06/29/the-fallen/ So up here in Northern Virginia, we don't have Sonic.  I wish we did, but we don't.  The entire population of Northern Virginia is worse off for it, littered with mindless zombies who think a burger is defined by McDonald's (I'm looking at you, Rob). (Apparenly this greatly offends both ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/06/22/sonic-home/ So the movie watching this summer hasn't been going to well.  I've been busy, and have thus missed some movies.  My desire to make up for lost time is diminished from some pretty lousy reviews for the likes of Terminator: Salvation and Land of the Lost. But this weekend I took ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/06/15/the-proposal/ When they first announced the new Star Trek, I wasn't enthused.  I felt sure it would be screwed up, and JJ Abrams has a pretty spotty record as far as I'm concerned.  Add that to the fact that Mr. Abrams was a professed Non-Trekker and I was a little nervous. But ... http://www.lykaon.com/2009/05/11/star-trek/