Rey's A Point

Category: reviews

  • 10 Reasons Why We Home School

    Upon revealing that my wife and I home school our children, we find ourselves in heavy crossfire with an emphasis on us doing wrong by our kids. It’s interesting that the harshest attacks come from (1) single people, (2) childless people, (3) old people who grew up during an age where schools were still good,…

  • Apple WWDC 2009

    No, I’m not there but I’m following the live feed on The Apple Blog and Gizmodo: 15″ Macbook Pro, 7 hour battery life with an SD card slot ($1699). 13″ MacBook now MacBookPro, with unibody, SD Card, 8GB of memory, up to 500GB or 256GB SSD drive with backlet keyboard and FW800. $1199 Uber model…

  • Susan Boyle and Perceptions

    By now, just about everyone in the E-World has seen the video of Susan Boyle performing on Britain Has Talent but I thought it was necessary to put in an observation that someone close to me, who wishes to remain anonymous, noted.

  • Keepin’ It Real

    Reality Filming has a long, sordid history and in recent years it has both blessed and threatened the television and movie industry. Reality TV, for example—and with no judgment on my part—has given us American Idol, Survivor, Jerry Springer, Cops and PBS’s Manor House. Some of these shows have managed to dethrone traditional television dramas…

  • Oats, How I Hate Thee: Facts and Failures

    I’ve still been doing this thing; I’m trying to persevere. As I have done so there have been some days that I fell into a rut with something that I found bearable and other days that I summoned something Awful onto my breakfast table. Here’s  a basic overview.

  • Happy Birthday To Me

    I abhor self-aggrandizing posts that applaud oneself for having survived another year, but I really haven’t gotten a chance to do one yet. So to make my hatred complete, I figure I should post this on my birthday. That’s right; I’m thirty-five years old today.

  • Sail On, Battlestar

    Society has a different inner voice; one that sounds more like Nickelodean or Michael Bay and less like Heroditus or Adam Smith. That, in the end, is likely why Battlestar Galactica was canceled and aired its final episode this past Friday with such an ending that it would ensure—amidst the regret of seeing such a…

  • Wife Reviews: Horton Hears A Who

    I doubt this will be a permanent feature to my blog and if it remains, it’ll probably show up as often and as regularly as I post (heh). That being said, here’s my wife Laura reviewing the movie Horton Hears A Who.

  • Who’s Really Watching Watchmen

    “Justin!” The group of late high-school age boys yelled from behind my place in the line across to the emptying theater. Minutes before they were snickering at the huge crowd saying things like “check out the seventh graders” and “For all the people who have to be home by ten.”

  • It’s Gonna Be A Long Late Night

    On the wall of Fallon’s dressing room hangs a calendar with an ominous date (unknown to us) which marks the end of unoriginal material from other talk-shows, favors, SNL cast and friends. It’s a horrifying date, fraught with televised violence and likely a long silent career doing routine standup in very bad neighborhoods.