Tag: nexthundreddays

  • We’ll Have a Few Laughs

    We’ll Have a Few Laughs

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    “Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” Words spoken by a man who’s traveled across the country to spend the holidays with his ex-wife and daughter. He stopped in at her company Christmas party. Things went… poorly. That (kind of) sums up the basic setup for one of my favorite…

  • Nothing Mightier Than The Meek

    Nothing Mightier Than The Meek

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    I love most episodes of The Twilight Zone (both the original and the “new” one from 1985-ish… we don’t talk much about that 2002-ish version, better to pretend there were only one or two episodes of that). There’s one particular episode, though, that I really try to watch around Christmas. The Night of the Meek is high…

  • A Very Animated Christmas

    A Very Animated Christmas

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    There are few characters more easily recognizable than Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. One of the reasons for that is how prominently they’ve been featured in various media forms over the years. For those of us in Generation X, there’s a really good chance that when you think of those (and so many…

  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

    National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

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    There are a handful of movies that pretty much became instant Christmas Classics in my life. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is one of those movies. It’s got a high-talent cast working with a script from one of the 80s best comedy writers (John Hughes) and touches on something a whole lot of people can related…

  • Ghostbusters Game Unboxing

    Ghostbusters Game Unboxing

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    Yet another delivery from a Kickstarter project I backed. This time, it’s the Ghostbusters Board Game that Cryptozoic ran a campaign for. It was a solid campaign, not a flawless one, but they’ve handled problems pretty well. What’s really neat about this one is that it’s one of the few board games that’s got a…