Before last weekend I knew nothing about Black Panther. That is not unusual for me. I am an underachieving nerd who never got into comic book superheros. If it was not Batman, I passed on it. One glimpse of the trailer for Black Panther was enough to draw me to the unexplored Marvel universe of... Continue Reading →
The Best Way To Stream The Olympics For Cord Cutters
The 2018 Winter Olympics are here. Not all of us live in the Peyongchang Time Zone, so catching up on the Twenty-Third Winter Olympiad is a problem. My wife and I currently use Hulu Plus for streaming, but the layout of the Hulu Plus Olympic tab made it difficult to find out what events are... Continue Reading →
Star Wars Fatigue Is About To Be Real
Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are developing a new Star Wars trilogy. The good news: Disney is now developing several Star Wars projects. Fans will be able to geek out on a large amount of new content. The bad news: Star Wars fatigue is about to be real.
The Eagles Won The Super Bowl!
We interrupt this blog to talk about football because… the Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl Champions! For people outside of the Philadelphia area, it is hard to explain what this means. Generations of Eagles fans have watched decades of tough luck and just misses. They last won a championship in 1960, seven years before the... Continue Reading →
SNL’s Super Sketch Revolutionary War
Saturday Night Live perfectly preempted the Super Bowl last night. The show brought back two alums for the historical sketch Revolutionary War. Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey returned to rep their hometowns. The result was an epic New England-Philadelphia throw down. Set in 1775, the sketch followed a celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Dratch, who... Continue Reading →
January Recap: Super Bowl and The War On Drugs
anuary was a busy month. I started a new job and my Philadelphia Eagles made the Super Bowl. I would be lying if I did not say that my favorite TV moment of the month came courtesy of NBC's coverage of the Eagles-Falcons NFC playoff game.