Tag: reviews

  • Review: “Harvey Birdman: Attorney General’

    Adult Swim / Cartoon Network

     

    For Book and Film Globe, I wrote about Adult Swim‘s triumphant and only sorta-political return of “Harvey Birdman” (for one episode at least).

    I have a couple of other reviews on the site, please check it out.

  • Back to it

    Vacation ended much too quickly, but I knew it would, so at least that wasn’t a surprise.

    In between pediatrician visits and Halloween and the start of Wurstfest (oh, my favorite time of year), I cleared out all the clutter and junk on the floor of our home office, making it a sane, walkable place again. That alone was worth the price of burning up a week of vacation.

    I bought a printer (and oh man does it work so much better than our last one; I think I’m swearing off HP printers forever), hired someone to fix a few behind-the-scenes WordPress issues I was having (the fonts are a little different, but now I can actually use apostrophes in the titles of blog posts; it was a weird issue that was driving me nuts. I can also now post here using the iPad/iPhone app, which was a problem before), did some Trailers Without Pity work, wrote the first significant chunk of a major writing project I’m really trying to devote more time to and just spent lots of time with the kids. I also did a solo day where I drove to Austin, worked out with a trainer, had a nice big salad for lunch then went and got a massage. That was my day of luxury and pampering. The rest of the vacation felt like errand, work and running things to Goodwill time.

    It was a really, really good week. Now I’m back at work and all the things I’d put on pause in my head, all the emails I tried to ignore and Tweets I promised to follow up on are back on the front burner, but at least I have a little bit better attitude about it than when I left.

    The Digital Savant column this week was a roundup of three tech product reviews I wrote, for the great Kinect game “Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster,” the MiCommand Control it All Remote for iOS and the ThinkGeek iCade Arcade Cabinet for the iPad.

    While I was on vacation, I had a “Coffee With…” feature I did for our Thursday Life & Style section run about an online service for couples who are dealing with infidelity. It was not a lot of fun having a press folder with the words “AFFAIR RECOVERY” lying on my desk, but damned if I was going to bring it home viagra mg.

    Now I’m working on some holiday gift guide stuff and a few other stories leading up to another vacation around Christmas. There are a few things on the horizon for next year that I’m excited about, but right now I’m just trying to keep up, not get sick and maintain my energy.

  • 1-2-3 in newsprint

    With all the time off I took in the last month, it was starting to feel I was barely employed and that my name was disappearing from the newspaper. Then, I had three short stories run on consecutive days, as sometimes happens.

    Last Friday I did a piece about Starhawk, a game being developed for Sony by an Austin studio called LightBox Interactive. I had a chance to play the first level of the game and was surprised how good it was since it’s still nearly a year before the game will probably be released for the PlayStation 3. I posted a few screen grabs from the game on Digital Savant.

    On Saturday, I had a Raising Austin column about an app developed by two Austin lawyers and moms that dispenses tips and advice for pregnant women. It’s called “Your BFF During Preganancy.”

    Then on Sunday, a shortened version of a review I did of the excellent video game Portal 2 ran in the paper. You can read the full-length version in this Digital Savant post.

    I have a few stories related to tablets coming up (including a dual review of the Motorola Xoom and the T-Mobile G-Slate) in the paper as well as a few other odds and ends.

    It feels good to be busy again.