1. Alec Baldwin in the absolute perfect role for him, Jack Donaghy, a self serious megalamaniac suit.
2. Laugh trackless fast paced absurdist humor. Hyrbid sketch comedy / improv / sitcom in terms of feel.
3. 30 Rock stars former Saturday Night Live head writer Tiny Fey as Liz Lemmon the head writer of The Girlie Show (TGS). I was always agnostic on Tina Fey but in this show she is tremendous
4. Actual quote: “Jack Welch has such unparalleled management skills, they named Welch’s Grape Juice after him because he squeezes the sweetest juice out of his workers’ mind grapes.”
5. The sneaky best new show of 2006 which is now forming a sneaky great thursday lineup for NBC with the Office (great), Scrubs (formerly great but still strong) and 30 Rock(Something Awesome)

1. Your character is charged with slaying colossi to save your honey.
2. What’s a colossus? Measure the vertical dimension of your TV and prepare for the colossus to take up all of that, and more. Significant parts of every battle take place ON the colossus.
3. Even their steps near you can kill due to the shockwaves they create. Your controller will vibrate, your hands shake, your horse panics and bucks you. It feels like you really are fighting a colossus and it can be frightening
4. You will not know how to kill any of the different colossus so they became an epic puzzle struggle, where you have to stay alive long enough to figure it out.
5. The world is lyrically beautiful. I don’t know what that means but it seems appropropriate, which is a made up word.
6. Only available on Ps2 unfortunately.
7. Do you like boss battles? Good ones? That’s 95% of this game.
8. The game was marketed virally through Giantology.net.
9. Worth it just for the story.

This is Werner Herzog’s latest film, made more than 30 years after Aguirre.

1. Herzog makes movies about tragically obsessive people. Timothy Treadwell, the film’s subject, wanted to become the Grizzly Bear version of the Crocodile Hunter. A natural fit if there ever was one.
2. “I will die for these bears. I will die for these bears. I WILL DIE FOR THESE BEARS.”
3. He lives with Grizzly bears and a family of foxes adopts / he adopts them. Yes, this is a documentary.
4. Two grizzly bears fighting tooth and nail for a good few minutes while taking a dump.
5. Haunting, surreal, but also touching. Treadwell loves theses bears because they are all he has.

1. While it says markets in the title, this is a book about life, and how we deal with probability above all else.
2. From MR.com:
   

   This is a classic example of what Nassim Taleb calls being “fooled by randomness,” in his intriguing book of the same name. We think that randomness means there will be no clusters or sequences of similar behavior, and therefore when we see them we assume they’re evidence of some hidden pattern. (You can see this in the way people interpret everything from clusters of cancer cases to hitting streaks in baseball.) But they’re really just evidence of the numbers working themselves out.

3. It will cause you to renanalyze many things in life, especially expected value weighed decisions.
4. Professionally, if probability comes into your work at all, reading this will be a great boon to you
5. The author is not a scientist, he is an actual professional who is amazingly well read and has a great contempt for the intellectually lazy, and no qualms about sharing it. This results in yet another opportunity to get your pretension on
6. His approach to probability and life draws from everything from behavioral economics, to classical economics, to poetry to neuroscience.
7. Changed the way I think and was a gateway to my further reading on randomness and probability.

1. Mario Kart untethered. You can play anyone else who has it around the world as long as you are within 20 feet of them or within 20 feet of a wireless access point.
2. Anyone can be competitive, especially when there are more racers. The game gives super powerful items to people who are very far behind.
3. My gf beats me 40% of the time
4. I am all about the red sparks and I maintain they are orange.
5. You always have a game of Mario Kart against another person ready to go at any time of day wherever you are.
6. The Nintendo Robot is an unlockable character.
7. I have played it for at least 80 hours and all over Argentina

Werner Herzog makes films about people who are as obsessive and insane as he is and he makes films like no one else on Earth.

1. Aguirre was a gimpy mid-level conquistador in the early 16th cerntury who descended the Andes in what today would be near Iquito, Peru. His goal is nominally to find the mythical city of El Dorado, but in reality he seeks REAL ULTIMATE POWER. And infinity.
2. Breathtaking shots of actual Quechuan natives trekking the Andes and the Amazonian rainforest. This movies sweats authenticity in a way that is rare in a work of fiction about the distant past.
3. A river rafting movie that is basically the same as Huckleberry Finn.
4. I’m kidding.
5. Time had it as one of the 100 best movies ever.
6. The shots in this movie are singular and you have never and will never see anything like it.
7. A haunting, mystical score provided by Popol Vuh on a harpsiorganochord or something.
8. The whole movie is an experience that will never leave you.
9. MONKEYS.

1. Airships, Air galleons, zepellins and cavorite.
2. Allan Quartmain, Wilhemina Harkness (from Dracula), Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man and Captain Nemo adventuring.
3. Tons of allussion. Literarily, a world of allussions and since I’m not well read (despite being a snob) I didn’t get many of them.
4. Bonus frameless prose epilogue short story.
5. Quote from Quartmain to Nemo: “For my part, if I’m honest, I’m here because I wanted another adventure.” “Yes, it’s hard to just stop isn’t it. When we stop, we start to fall apart.”
6. Nautilus and opium dens.
7. Did I mention zepellins????

1. If Satan were to come to me, and say “Hey Will, what is Rock?”, I’d say “Satan, Rock is the Pixies. “
2. Moving, whining, angry, nervous, frenetic, lilting, pulsing, beating music that is unrelenting.
3. One two singing punch of Black Francis aka Frank Black using his voice to yearn through falsetto loss of breath back down to talking and Kim Deal cutting through the rock with her girl sounding voice.
4. Where is my Mind?
5. Gigantic
6. The album is short, sweet, and flows. All the songs work as you ride the cd’s crest to the end.
7. The Pixies never get stale

1. Strong comic book action; Miho balletically dances through the black and white comic book frames, leaving death behind.
2. Story wraps up well.
3. Seemed too much like an idea that didn’t need to be stretched out so much.
4. It also seemed “too easy.”
5. Worth reading if you like the other awesome Sin City books.

Note: This may end up on Kinda Awesome.