AFI Top 100: Thoughts & Review of 100-91

My roommate and I are film junkies, and what better challenge than the AFI Top 100?  The American Film Institute updated their list in 2007, so that’s the one we went with.  It’s been a couple years and we still aren’t done with the list, but we’ve put an enormous dent into the daunting face of…

Stardew Valley: Cozy Times on the Farm

I’m not much for going outside these days. I enjoy putting my pale, lumpy butt on display during vacations a few times a year, but mostly I’m the type of person who prefers to be cozied up in my tree.  There’s no denying, however, that the few times I go on walks or runs, or…

I hate Aaron Rodgers.

The title pretty much sums it up.  I hate this guy. I hate him because I’m jealous.  I’m jealous of the Green Bay Packers for having a guy this talented fall into their laps late in the 2005 NFL Draft; I’m jealous because he’s gone 33-19 against the NFC North with a ridiculous 111-21 touchdown-to-interception…

Mornings, Then & Now.

Waking up early is fantastic. Er, fantastic in so much as long as you have the morning off of work or don’t have to be anywhere until the afternoon.  Let’s try this again – waking up early is fantastic on weekends or days off.  I’m going to work under this context for the rest of…

Hearthstone: My Experience, Enjoyment, & Disappointments

Given that the Bears are a couple months away from Free Agency, we’re distancing ourselves from Christmas, and the only other thing going on is the Blackhawks chugging along in preparation for another potentially awkward playoff run, I woke up this morning with a hankering to write about Hearthstone. Hearthstone, for those not aware, is…

Bears Offseason Crystal Ball

The 2017 Chicago Bears are currently in an amorphous state – a primordial soup of elements that haven’t yet become the mudfish scraping its way along a sandy shore, gulping its first breath of air.  Free agency and the draft will give us a clearer picture about this team’s immediate future, but before the 2016…

Learning to Win

What a season. I don’t want you to read that sentence in your head in the voice of a person who has just eaten a satisfying meal, patting their belly contentedly while leaning back in a creaking chair. I don’t want you to read that sentence in your head in the voice of a person…