▼
Monday, January 31, 2022

DVD/Movie Review: Havoc

›
  Havoc was the movie that really broke Anne Hathaway out of the Disney mode. In it, she plays a rich Los Angeles high-school girl who hangs...

Book Review: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Leia Princess of Alderaan

›
  This is one of the young-adult novels put out after Disney's takeover of Lucasfilm. So, it is included in the Star Wars canon, but lik...

Workout Update: P90X Day 56

›
Day 56 was going to be back-to-back yoga days, but I opted to do x-stretch instead. It went well even though I was pretty tired by the time ...

Workout Update: P90X Day 55

›
 Day 55 was yoga-x again. Because I also have a very busy weekend, and I hate the second half of the workout, I again did the first 53 minut...

Workout Update: P90X Day 54

›
 Day 54 was the second day of core synergistics. Nothing more to say about it. I am still not a huge fan of it, and I struggle with most of ...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Workout Update: P90X Day 53

›
Day 53 was the middle of the recovery week, which meant x-stretch. This is actually the second x-stretch of the week since I did the workout...

Book Review: Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindelwald

›
  This is the second of what will be at least a trilogy of books/movies in the Fantastic Beasts prequel to Harry Potter. It is set in the la...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Workout Update: P90X Day 52

›
Day 52 was the Kenpo-x workout. It, like yoga, is the only "regular" workout that appears in the recovery week (and stretch if you...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Workout Update: P90x Day 51

›
Day 51 was a return to core synergistics. It is, along with yoga-x, my least favorite workout in the P90X series. I hate the majority of the...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Workout Update: P90X Day 50

›
 Day 50 was the start of the second recovery week. I did the x-stretch workout to save a bit of time. I plan to do both Yoga workouts back t...
Monday, January 24, 2022

DVD/TV Series Review: ER - The Complete Series

›
  At the time ER debuted it was the "It" show, meaning it was the show that, the day after it aired, people would talk about at wo...

Workout Update: P90X Day 49

›
Day 49 was yoga-x. Again, because I did x-stretch the day before, I did just the first 55 minutes of this, up to the point where they end th...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

TV Series Review: Ringer

›
  Ringer was the post-Buffy return to a starring role in a TV series for Sarah Michelle Gellar. It was a very uneven series that started out...

Book Review: Star Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm

›
  This is the second "main storyline" canon novel (basically meaning "adult" novel) set in the high-republic era of the ...

Blu-Ray/TV Show Review: Chuck Seasons 1 - 5 (Spoiler Free)

›
  Chuck was a series that ran from 2007 to 2012. The basic premise was that a guy named Chuck (played by Zachary Levi) who works at a fictio...

Workout Update: P90X Day 48

›
 Day 48 was x-stretch. Nothing major to report about this one aside from the fact that I could get a bit deeper in the hamstring stretches. ...

Workout Update: P90X Day 47

›
 Day 47 was ab-ripper along with Legs and Back. Really, the only thing notable about this workout, is that I was finally able to increase th...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Blu Ray/TV Series Review: Fringe: The Complete Series

›
  Fringe was a very unique series that ran from 2008 to 2013. It was part police procedural and part supernatural thriller that involved a d...

Workout Update: P90X Day 46

›
Yesterday was day 46, which was the Kenpo-x workout. I managed to keep up with the people in the video for the entire workout and did not ha...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Workout Update: P90X Day 45

›
 Day 45, aside from being the halfway point for the first round of P90x was the Back and Biceps workout (along with ab-ripper as the warm-up...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Book Review: Cloak of Deception

›
  Cloak of Deception is one of the novels that is relegated to Legends status since the LucasFilm buyout by Disney. It is set just before th...

Workout Update: P90X Day 44

›
 Day 44 was the plyometrics workout. Like was the case last time, I felt that I was getting better at some of the moves, while others I stil...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Blu Ray/TV Show Review: Northern Exposure Complete Series (Region 2)

›
  Northern Exposure was a breakout hit that ran from 1990 to 1995. It starred Rob Morrow as Joel Fleischman, a doctor from New York who was ...

Workout Update: P90X Day 43

›
 Day 43 was the Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps workout, and ab-ripper. Overall, it went well. I was able to increase the amount of weight on ...

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: A Dangerous Method

›
  A Dangerous Method is about the relationship between Carl Jung (played by Michael Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (played by Viggo Mortenson), ...