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We were driving home from an errand (dropping August and Dela off somewhere, not important). Suddenly I hear Ciaran from the back exclaim, “Pancakes are like heaven. If you don’t serve a good pancake, you don’t serve good food.”
LEGO Ninjago Nindroids is the latest 3DS game featuring the franchise. It is only available on the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita, so you might think of it as a “lesser” game than the typical LEGO video game which is on consoles with a handheld version as well, but that’s not the case. Where the…
This is a bit of a long post. You can skip to the last three paragraphs if you want to get to the point of the whole thing. I think I’ve seen The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 8 times. The more I see the band and listen to their music the more they become one of my…
“Sofia The First” is a bit of a surprise in my house. The Disney princess genre has gotten a nice twist with this series aimed at young kids, but has appeal much greater than you might think. While he might be embarrassed to admit it to his classmates, my 11 year old son enjoys watching…
Muppets: Most Wanted, as a film, lived up to expectations, but as a Blu-ray release it fell short. Picking up right after The Muppets ended we see the gang getting ready for a sequel and bandying about ideas. Enter Ricky Gervais as Dominc Badguy (pronounced “Ba-jee” because it’s French). He offers to help the gang…
Ciaran is getting new glasses soon. My wife’s health benefits allow for this to happen on a regular basis, and with 5 of the 7 in the family using corrective lenses, that’s a big deal. He first got glasses 2 years ago and had to have them replaced 6 months after that. I don’t remember…
Iron Man And Captain America: Heroes United is the latest Marvel animated offering that could be seen as a sort of extension of the “regular” Marvel cinematic universe. There are references to the films, not big ones, but enough for viewers to connect the dots. The timing, however, is odd. With the events of Captain…
Back in the early-mid 1970s a group of young punks formed a band in London. It went nowhere, but the individual members would go on to form such bands as The Clash, The Damned and Generation X. Two of the members would reunite years later – bassist Tony James and guitarist Mick Jones. They formed…
I have mentioned my admiration for “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” before, how I think it is a positive show for kids that is supposedly designed for girls but has much greater appeal. My 11 year old son watches it with his sister. It is well written with solid characters that are not one…
Batman: Assault On Arkham is an animated offering that is set within the storylines of the current Batman: Arkham video games, but one doesn’t need to have played those games to enjoy and understand what is going on here. Actually this works very well as a stand-alone story without the trappings of the video game…