Sunday, August 24, 2014

Looking Up

I don’t know why but it seems sometimes we forget the good things we’ve got looking for something shiny and new. The Patriots preseason game #3 – the “dress rehearsal” – was a reminder of that.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The Dogged Days

The week leading up to that first preseason game was kind of exciting. We knew it wasn’t really real NFL football but it was the closest thing to it since last February. And now, I can’t even wait until the regular season starts.

Tom Brady will play this Friday night?

Oh.

Well, okay then.

Monday, August 11, 2014

We Are Groot

Guardians of the Galaxy is everything you’ve heard it is. It’s action packed, funny and it’s full of sci-fi clichés that were thrown into a blender and served up on the rocks with a skewer of fruit and a paper umbrella. So delicious.

It’s also something more. Like any good sci-fi story set in the future – really, an alternate universe – it’s subversively and incisively about the here and now.

[Yeah, spoilers after jump. Why haven’t you seen this movie yet?]

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Do We Know Anything Yet?

Still gnawing on the ankle of that first preseason game because there isn’t anything else in the fridge.