IV Not Included
w00t! Gamers, there’s some totally EPIC news!!!! For all you ballers, beasts and even nubes who sometimes pause your game to slam a little sugared nourishment—or pause your two-handed nourishment-slamming to get back to the game—there’s a brand new reason to get pumped. Mountain Dew is putting out a breakfast drink. Ding! Hey, we all […]
Does Hollywood Hate Your Granny?
Within the last couple of weeks, I’ve reviewed two movies that focused on the elderly: Amour and Quartet. And while plenty has already been said on this very blog about Amour (and I definitely don’t want to beat a dead, er, euthanized horse) I want to talk briefly about the huge difference between this pair of […]
Bringing Out Your Hidden Hyde
In the dingier recesses of our minds, there are parts of us that we probably wouldn’t want everyone around us to see. You know, those embarrassing little foolish thoughts or momentary guilty obsessions and temptations that bounce around in our ever active brains. Unfortunately, in our bright new shiny world those drooling and slavering sides […]
The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book
On my nightstand at home I have a yard-thick Autobiography of Mark Twain, a light-reading young adult novel, a bound collection of mystery yarns and a car magazine. Now, why am I giving you this useless info that you never requested? Well, it’s to testify to the fact that I like to read. And I […]
Game Goods: Bob Hoose’s Year-End Picks
Games, games, games. We’re all into playing games … of one type or another, anyway. And even though some folks will openly claim sports, politics or emotional manipulation as their play du choix, many will readily point to video games as the thing they do when they’ve got some extra time on their hands. And […]
Wii U, Mii 2
OK, so that headline is Wii-lly bad. In fact, the whole Wii, Mii and U thing has always felt a bit cute and kitschy to me. But I guess we’ve got it better than France. Over there they’re stuck calling it the Nintendo “Yes.” Ba-dump-chingggg. The newest Nintendo console, the Wii U, has hit the […]
Two and a Half Men Star Cries Foul
If you’ve read any of our reviews of CBS’ long-running sitcom Two and a Half Men, then you likely know that Plugged In hasn’t necessarily thought of the edgy comedy as, uh, classic family-room fare. Well, it turns out that we’re not the only ones with reservations. Even the show’s stars have been turning up […]
A Game Economy
If you’re the type to worry about an American economy that continues to hobble along like an octogenarian centipede and chew your nails over that looming fiscal cliff that we keep hearing about, well, I have two words to calm your nerves … at least for a moment or two. Video games. Enough said. Yep, […]
The Skinny on Horror
So you’ve tossed your diet overboard like a rusty anchor, huh? I understand. Cutting back on favorite foods and snacks can be doggone tough. (Unless you’ve broken your jaw and had your mouth wired shut. But no such luck for me.) And then there’s the exercise route. Arrgh! Who wouldn’t get tired of that? All […]
Elmo Says It’s OK
Sesame Street’s little, giggly Elmo may just seem like a furry friend of the letters A and Q to you. But to me, he’s the tops. We have all, of course, been watching the impact that Frankenstorm Sandy had on the Atlantic coast—following its stories of devastation, from flooded subway systems to uprooted landscapes to […]