Name: David Desjardins
Dateline: Montreal, Quebec
Weblog: theendofdave.com [RSS]
Articles: 108
First Published: Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Last Published: Saturday, March 10, 2007
Dave works in the IT industry despite his better judgment. He’s an artist at heart with a critical mind. He enjoys photography more than he could ever express. Dave feels a need to tweak his brain with copious amounts of taurine to stay sharp while absorbing all kinds of media on any medium. He runs two blogs The End of Dave and Postcards from The End (a photoblog)Currently listing articles 108-51:
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Movie Review: 300— It is, succinctly put, a bloody fantastic work of art.
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Movie Review: Jesus Camp— This is the neo-conservative/evangelical version of the Hitler-Jugend.
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Movie Review: F**k— It could have been so much more. More intelligent, more in-depth, more penetrating, more stimulating. This bird just doesn't fly.
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Movie Review: An Inconvenient Truth— Despite being a PowerPoint presentation the producers and the director manage to make it into a completely engrossing and captivating presentation.
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TV Review: Heroes - "Fallout"— This week’s episode directed by John Badham was… wait! John who?
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TV Review: 30 Days - "Jail"— For the final segment of this season, Spurlock took it upon himself to live for 30 days as an inmate in a jail.
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TV Review: Battlestar Galactica "A Measure of Salvation"— Battlestar Galactica is definitely back to form. This week’s episodes, “A Measure of Salvation” proves it.
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Movie Review: Babel— Luminous story, exhaustive execution, surreal music and images, lessons to learn and great acting.
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TV Review: Battlestar Galactica “Torn”— In episode 6, Battlestar Galactica is booted up, scripts have been run and the previously good version has been restored.
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TV Review: Lost -"The Cost of Living"— Time to drink some Dharma Energy drinks and get things moving again. Lost 2.0, the sucker.
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TV Review: Heroes - “Better Halves”— Chapter 6's superpower du jour was predictability. But a kickass cliffhanger was its weakness.
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Movie Review: The Prestige— Two magicians enter in a bitter rivalry and big surprise, it's not about the girl.
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TV Review: CSI - Post-Mortem— I hate to do it, but I have to trash another favorite series of mine because it's lost its edge and vision.
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TV Review: Prison Break— With the latest episode of Prison Break, I am only one more scene of silliness away from quitting the show all together.
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TV Review: Dexter Gets the Win for 2006’s Best New Series— If you haven’t caught Dexter yet, shame on you for missing this year’s absolute best new show.
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Book Review: Have Your Poo Rolled Away by Dung Beetles - And 99 Other Things to Do Before You Die (Plus a Few to Do Afterwards) by New Scientist— If the title alone isn’t enough to get you to buy this book, don’t.
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Restaurant Review: Le Cartet - Why Gourmet Food Can Suck— If you want taste, you must embrace the fat.
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Prison Break as a Quarter Horse
— Prison Break is the Quarter Horse, we can sense that the show is already out of steam.
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Michelle Malkin's Sandwich Board Asks "Where Is The Outrage?"— Malkin is beginning to sound like a lunatic doomsayer, screaming that the end is near.
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Movie Review: Empire Falls— This drama leaves the viewer wondering why more great movies like this aren’t made more often.
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DVD Review: Loose Change Second Edition— This film, as anything that criticizes the actions of the government following the 9/11 attacks, is harshly criticized itself.
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Uwe Boll Is Fightin' Mad… Literally!— The bottomless pit of creative suck wants to punch you, the critic, in the head.
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TV Review: Hell’s Kitchen— Raggy girly hair, Muppets, and wet knickers...no, really.
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Geek News Flash: News Transformers Movie Poster and Website Launched— Let the droolish anticipation begin.
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Al-Zarqawi, Dead Terrorist Or Ace Up A Sleeve?— Al-Zarqawi, a tool of the Bush administration?
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Book Review: Sci-Phi - Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger by Mark Rowlands— Sci-phi is a new branch of philosophy that explores the philosophy in science fiction.
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Jeliel³ Does a Gypsyman: I Am Now Me— So please allow me to introduce myself.
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PS2 Review: Tomb Raider - Legend— It took them six sequels to get it right, but this is the best chapter of the series.
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DVD Review : Soldiers in the Army of God— This was another one of HBO’s no-holds-barred, gritty, high-quality documentaries on touchy subjects.
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Movie Review: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children— This movie has all the obligatory and ubiquitous parameters all Japanese anime must have
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Book Review: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell— What do Paul Revere and Hush Puppies have in common?
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John Stossel and 20/20 Shovel Through More Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity— John Stossel is once again being a git, a snot, and pushing his agenda and views on the public and not making a news report.
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Give Us Your Panhandlers, Your Squeegees, Your Homeless Beggars— If I’d give a quarter every time someone asked me, I’d be broke by the end of the week.
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Book Review: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach— What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?
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Movie Review: Silent Hill— No movie based on a video has EVER been good... until now.
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J.J. Abrams to Direct New Star Trek Feature Film— Do you really need more information than what's in the title?
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Michelle Malkin: When Pundits Attack
— Ann Coulter's understudy has no moral core or moral code.
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CD Review: Chemical City by Sam Roberts— It’s not the cherry on the sundae the critics make it out to be.
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Music Review: Exile and the Kingdom by Jeff Martin— Someone please hand me a tank of gasoline and a match.
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Movie Review: Inside Man (2006)— Spike Lee had everything needed to make his own Dog Day Afternoon but he chose to make a bad made-for-TV movie.
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Restaurant Review: Houston Steak & Côtes Levées— They specialize in my favorite man-fuel: Steak and Ribs.
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TV Review: The Rick Mercer Report … eh! Report— Canadian? Catch the show. Not Canadian? Nobody’s perfect, but you can catch the archives.
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Book Review: Hunger - An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell— Fasting for a day can be a lesson in our slavery to this bag of meat and bones.
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DVD Review : Dune (Extended Edition)— Of course it was a disaster. The Waterworld of the eighties. But it's still a Classic.
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Movie Review: Lucky Number Slevin— Cooler than the other side of your pillow. Yeah! It’s that cool.
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Movie Review: Ice Age: The Meltdown— Who said this was a kiddie cartoon? That’s some deep stuff right there.
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Movie Review: V for Vendetta— Behind this mask is a man, and behind this man is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.
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Music Review: Angel: Live Fast, Die Never - Music From the TV Series— The show went through it all, so does the score.
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Book Review : Matrix Warrior: Being The One By Jake Horsley— Jake Horsley you are not The One. "The Matrix For Dummies Who will Never Understand It" would have been a better title.
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Product Review: Nexxtech Silicon Earbud Headphones with Winder Case— Better than decent sound quality
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The Hour, George and Noam— I can forgive you for your sweat stains in your arm-pits showing on TV.
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Food Review: Energy Drink Rockstar— It didn’t turn me into a Chihuahua on crack, but boy did it pack a punch.
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DVD Review: Sahara— You just gotta love dem camels.
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Eat This! Montreal's Hidden Gem, Cluny's— I found bliss amidst iron and bricks; I just love my towné.
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Don’t Man-Handle a Laptop: Please Be Gentle— A small how-to on taking care of those laptops. These puppies are not made of titanium. They are plastic.
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Review: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence - Carl Sagan— Did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?
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Montreal Subway: And the Wall Came Crumbling Down
— The heck-of-a-job-Brownie bureaucrat doesn’t find my humor funny and he’s not getting out of my face and your intrepid Blogger isn’t intimidated easily...
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CD Review : Sarah Harmer - I'm a Mountain
— That clear melodious voice, the banjo - oh boy do I love the sound of banjo!
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