I’m of a certain generation (Gen Xers) who remember the Charlie Brown “Peanuts” holiday specials (with the Christmas and “Great Pumpkin” specials being standouts), and the stop-motion Rankin-Bass produced Christmas specials such as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”, “Little Drummer Boy” and others. These were fond childhood memories of TV…
Tag: StarWars
Cinematic Star Wars
***** If you’ve not seen Star Wars or any of its sequels, there may be spoilers ahead, so quickly; go watch ALL OF THEM RIGHT AWAY so you can come back and read this as soon as possible (hehe) ***** Okay, now that we have that bit of business out of the way, onto this…
“Rogue One”: a spoiler-filled review
***** The following review contains big, fat, hairy spoilers all over the place. So, if you’ve not yet seen “Rogue One” and you don’t realize that it’s a prequel about the theft of the Death Star plans that leads to the battle station’s destruction as depicted in the 1977 “Star Wars” movie? Then I can’t…
Is one ever ‘too old’ to enjoy geeky things?
As I turn 50 this weekend (technically Monday, but…), I realize that I am more than middle-aged. I’m an oldster. I’m soon applicable for a senior discount at Denny’s. I’m slowly going gray. Everyone on TV looks like a baby to me now. All of my favorite songs are ‘classics.’ The joints ache, and…