Archive for May, 2003

X2 Review

Thursday, May 8th, 2003
***½

Well, bub, here we go. You sure you want a piece ‘a this?

I thought the first go-around for X-Men was about as good as you could make a movie about a bunch of mutant outcasts who roam the earth with superhuman powers—a good concept, but a little long in the tooth with character development. […]

You Might Be a First Time Home Buyer If…

Monday, May 5th, 2003

By now, I’m pretty sure that I could start a good sized list of instances that unmistakably reveal a first time home buyer, a’la Jeff Foxworthy (famed for the “how to tell a redneck” jokes). For instance, if on the occasion of your house inspection, your house inspector looks at you and decides to […]

As American as Apple Computer

Thursday, May 1st, 2003

It was a harmless enough comment. Something that I let slide at the time because I didn’t really know the person who said it. And then there was the small technicality of his being my new boss’; friend—both of us being invited to his house to watch the NFC Championship game—which didn’t exactly elicit […]