What's the best place to get a meal in your neck of the woods?
Spaghetti Warehouse. No one else I know likes it, so everyone gets dragged there once a year on my birthday. Double bonus is that I don’t have to pay for it then, either.
If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?
Another one of those questions that’s tough because I only get one. Probably ignorance. That covers a lot, from people who complain about things without knowing the full story, racists, agenda pushers who refuse to acknowledge the other side of a debate, those who believe animals have no feelings, etc. If I keep going, we’ll be here for a while. Human stupidity comes in at a very close second, if not a deadlocked tie.
Matt Picks Matt
We asked Matt to choose his favorites from among his huge collection of BC articles, and these were the ones he selected. Check them out, and be sure to visit Matt's writer's page to see what else he's been up to.
Oh, come one. Everyone knows the bad ones are far more entertaining! But, I siphoned through my posts and found these:
Phone Booth DVD Review
Not really special, but simply picked because it’s my first Blogcritics post, first movie review, and first DVD review all in one package.
Book Review: Parents are Being Played Like a Video Game
Beyond the fact that the book is one of the most miserable things I’ve ever read, this post is special because of the comments to follow by the author himself. He finally gives up when he fails to come up with enough information to repel my arguments, debunking everything by saying the debate was childish even though he wrote a book on the topic.
Region 3 DVD Review: Return of Godzilla
This is one of my all time favorite movies, both because it was the first Godzilla movie I ever saw in a theater and one of the best in the franchise. I picked it because of my love for the movie and it’s the second longest review I’ve ever written (the first being a 2,300+ word monstrosity to this movie's sequel, Godzilla vs. Biollante).
Xbox 360 Review: Madden NFL 07
Another mundane entry in this football franchise and the review is roughly on the same level. The lukewarm score and review however actually led to a death threat from a reader when he contacted me on Xbox Live. Fun times.
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Article comments
1 - Chris Beaumont
Congrats Matt! Well deserved recognition. And thanks for the mention!
2 - El Bicho
I knew this was coming and am glad to see it finally come to fruition.
Your media collection kicks ass! It's nice that you have pictures, so you'll have something to look back on when the future wife makes you get rid of most of that "junk."
Lisa, excellent job as always. Your questions always do a great job of getting the subjects to reveal more of themselves than their writing does.
3 - DukeDeMondo
congratulations Matt! well deserved, man. and good god, i know a fair few fellows (and some lassies) who would happily give their gums and a quarter of each eye to be percehed afore a gaming set-up like you have there for ten minutes.
4 - Someone who is NOT Matt Paprocki
This is the greatest article in the history of Blogcritics. Not sure why, but it just is.
5 - Christopher Rose
Matt, you need to get out more! lol
6 - Matt Paprocki
"It's nice that you have pictures, so you'll have something to look back on when the future wife makes you get rid of most of that "junk."
That would be 'ex-wife' long before that happened.
Thanks for the nods guys. It's appreciated.
7 - Matthew T. Sussman
You write for an awesome newspaper, Matt, you know that right? And your first name rules.