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• 86 Desert Island Experiment

  It wasn't a desert island, and it was only for a few months, but I have, in fact, packed books for a trip to an island where I wasn't certain to be able to find any other reading material.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Dec 30, 2003

• 85 Master and Commander

  Before there was a movie with too many subtitles, there was a book by Patrick O'Brian.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Dec 27, 2003

• 84 Endless Nights

  A somewhat disappointing new collection of stories in the Sandman universe.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Dec 27, 2003

• 83 The King, He's Back

  The Return of the King has been out for five days now, so the hard-core fans have mostly seen it already. Those who haven't seen it are advised to skip the following, as it will be massively spoiler-ridden.

  in Video — by Chad Orzel — on Dec 22, 2003

• 82 Come On Baby, Cover Me

  Scattered thoughts on cover tunes, good, bad, and ugly.

  in Music — by Chad Orzel — on Dec 12, 2003

• 81 Tooth and Claw

  A Victorian sentimental novel, with dragons.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Dec 06, 2003

• 80 The Matrix: Revolting

  The third movie is terrible not because it doesn't make any sense (it doesn't, but the original didn't, either), but because it discards everything that did work in the first movie in favor of budget-busting CGI.

  in Video — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 11, 2003

• 79 Quicksilver

  The plot is too complicated to describe, and anyway serves mostly as an excuse for Stephenson to show off both his extensive research and his flair for writing slightly overheated prose.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 09, 2003

• 78 Obscure Band Update

  A few notes on recent CD purchases inspired by Web radio.

  in Music — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 06, 2003

• 77 Kill the Matrix

  The true idiocy of Gregg Easterbrook's unfortunate column about Kill Bill.

  in Video — by Chad Orzel — on Oct 26, 2003