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WoW Withdrawals

So I haven't played WoW in over a week thanks to the move and the fact that I've been working a lot. Now that I can play for awhile there is a big patch to download and Blizzard's servers are getting slammed. We do have quite a few other diversions here at our place. Duncan's X-Box is modded like crazy and he has a bunch of games on the hard drive as well as emulators and roms galore. It's pretty sweet. Not to mention I've got my new DS Lite. I was sitting on the fence about getting one right away since I couldn't afford to just buy a new one right now. Then Gamestop offered an extra $20 to the trade in price of a regular DS and I quickly made the switch. It's really stinking cool and waaaay brighter. I also like the new stylus and button layout. Phil and Janelle got me a copy of Big Brain Academy for my birthday. I guess I'll crack that open right now.

posted by brendoman | 06/20/06| 04:45:02 pm| I Love Video Games, DS| 1 comment »


Nacho Libre

This movie turned out to be a lot sweeter than I expected it to be. Rated at just a PG, there are no curse words, there isn't an overload of fart jokes, and it actually has a better outlook on religious faith than I've seen in a mainstream movie in a long while.

Nacho is Ignacio, played by Jack Black, who serves food to orphans in a Mexican monastery. He dreams of the fame of being a wrestler, and joins forces with Esqueleto, a skinny sidekick with a grin that cracked me up, to begin amateur wrestling.

What more is there to say? The movie is cute. I didn't laugh out loud a lot, but I liked it. I doubt older adults will enjoy it because it seems targeted at an audience that will understand its little quirks. I hated Napoleon Dynamite, which was brought to us by the same director, but Nacho has one thing going for it that Napoleon never did: likeable characters.

posted by Jeri | 06/20/06| 03:53:30 pm| movies| 2 comments »


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