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  • Goodbye, PS2

    In an effort to put more $ toward the new home theater fund, I sold off the PS2 yesterday.  I managed to get $75 for the system with two games and one controller.  It was in relatively good condition, and the only thing we used it for was to watch DVD’s.  I can count on one hand the amount of times it was used to play games with.

    I figured it was a good thing to let go of because we can always buy a new (used) one for cheap if the need to PS2 game arises, and it was only going to lose value while sitting around the apartment.  It was taking up space, and as you will see by further banal posts, I’m trying to get rid of some of the various unused and unnecessary junk around the house.

    Goodbye, PS2.  You got us through four seasons of Six Feet Under, two seasons of Carnivale, three seasons of Deadwood, and countless other random shows and movies

    Postscript: Anyone want to buy an Atari 2600 system?  I’m selling mine – complete with games!

  • Quick Movie Review: The Descent

    More or less this movie creeped me the hell out! I have not been so creeped out since High Tension. It’s a story of a group of six or so adventurous women who set out on a spelunking expedition. Soon they are in over their heads due to the manipulation of one of the girls, and have found themselves lost and their friendships splintering. Furthermore: they are not alone in the dark, scary, spaces.

    The movie is a little more layered than just a plain thriller, and that keeps it interesting. It gave me nightmares, and that’s not an easy thing to do. Anyway, rent it, buy it (hint – Amazon Link below!), NetFlix it, or borrow it from your neighbor. Watch it late it night with all the lights off and be prepared to scare the living crap out of your couchmate when you scream like a girl when surprised once or twice throughout the movie.

  • Quick Book Review: A Death In Belmont

    I picked up Sebastian Junger’s “A Death In Belmont” at the Harvard Book Store a few months ago and just got time to get to it last weekend. I was bored after finishing off three or four books that I’d started and were languishing around and I couldn’t find anything on my shelf that I was particularly interested in.

    At first I thought I wouldn’t like the book at all. I bought it because it had local connections, and I not read anything by the author before. I was pleasantly surprised by the content, and very impressed with Junger’s simple style. I was kept interested from beginning to end, and finished this book over the course of two Saturdays.

    The book is related to the Boston Strangler, and one murder in particular for which a different man was convicted. It takes place in and around where I live, and I enjoy books that I have a connection to. Also, the book is part of the author’s life, as Albert DeSalvo himself had been doing a construction job on his house in 1962 when he was a small child.

    I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Strangler case, anyone who was impressed by the writing style of “The Perfect Storm”, and anyone who wants an interesting look at the life of criminals, not just the Strangler.

  • Product Love: Stemless Wine Glasses

    I love the Crate And Barrel Stemless Wine Glasses. Here at the Casa De Crazy, we drink a little bit of wine. We are also a bit clumsy, and for years, broken wine glasses were the bane of my existence. You couldn’t walk around the apartment barefoot without getting at least one itsy bitsy piece of glass stuck in your foot at least weekly. Wine glass breaking became something of an art form, right up with the sport of spilling-red-wine-onto-something-that-used-to-be-white.

    Enter last summer. On a trip to Maine, I stopped by the outlet stores on the way home, and lo and behold I found a miracle: stemless wine glasses. Crate And Barrel had them at a really good price, and they are amazing. The Rate Of Breakage of our wine glasses has gone a ton, and, just as important, the Days Since Last Wine Spillage Chart number keeps growing! They don’t spill as easily and are much harder to break when they are tipped over. Plus, they’re wicked cheap to replace when they do break! At $1.95 each, how can I afford NOT to break a few of them every year?!

    Link: http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=130&f=9086