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We are sitting around the dinner table, eating our dinner, chatting about who knows what. Eventually the topic shifts to eye color. Each of our 5 kids have different eye color. None of them have the same color as Laura or myself. Kyle has the eye color of my mother. Ciárán has the eye color…
How are you celebrating Star Wars Day? Hasbro graciously sent us a few things to help celebrate May The Fourth (Be With You). Thanks Hasbro!!
Angry Birds and Star Wars get mashed together in the Angry Birds Star Wars Millennium Falcon Bounce Game. Here three birds as balls are used to take down Empirical Pigs (Marxist references not included) as they cover the iconic Star Wars ship. The game is slated for ages 8 and up according to the…
Remember last week’s Shark Princess? He turned into an ice cream cone. No, really. He walked around saying he was an ice cream cone. Thursday night was performance night for the 3rd – 5th graders. I couldn’t get a shot of him (along with a gajillion other 3rd graders) playing the ukulele, but here he…
Angry Birds Star Wars AT-AT Attack Battle Game is fun, but I’m not sure how much of a game there actually is. There is no set way to set up the game and no specific scoring mechanism. In a way, this is actually a good thing. While it doesn’t really qualify as a game, as…
Superman: Unbound is the latest DC animated direct to video film to arrive, and in some ways it is the most surprising. It is rated “PG-13” and certainly earns it. You might be tempted to pick it up and let the kids watch it, but there might need to be some parental supervision and intervention….
Dear Xavier, I love you. I really do. But this is getting ridiculous. I sort of understand the issues about not wanting to go to sleep and getting out of bed, and you’re not the first kid to do that. You get out of bed, I put you back. We do this several times until…
Westworld was written and directed by Michael Crichton, relatively early in his career. Previously he had written books that were beginning to be adapted into films (such as The Andromeda Strain) and begun to dabble in filmmaking himself, adapting one of his own novels and directing it for television. Westworld was his first film written…
Here are the kids eating breakfast yesterday morning: After breakfast my youngest son turned into The Shark Princess:
More casual comic fans will barely recognize The Inhumans, Marvel’s race of genetically altered humans that through the ages have kept to themselves and carried on the “tradition” of enhancing their DNA. Led by Black Bolt, they live in Attilan, a city that has throughout Marvel history, changed locations. At one point it was located…