Oversharing @ Jeffrey's World

30Jun/110

These are a few of my favorite things

Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1984. I’m six (“and a half!”) years old, and this is the year I would discover some seriously cool stuff: Transformers and G.I. Joe. While G.I. Joe had debuted two years earlier, and my older brother, Kevin, doubtless had some of the toys, I didn’t really notice that stuff until after I’d turned six. At this point, I was beginning to become one of the “big kids,” and my tastes in toys reflected that. The fact that, a year later in 1985, both toy lines would have TV shows – which were, really, little better than half-hour-long daily commercials for said toys – certainly aided in my discovery. That year also saw the release of a new cartoon in the U.S.: Robotech, and by 1986, I’d also discovered Voltron, another Japanese import. Add these to my existing love of the Star Wars toys, and I’m shocked my mother was able to refrain from causing physical harm to myself or my brother whenever we happened to pass a toy aisle when we’d go shopping.

Tagged as: Comics, Gaming, GI Joe, Oversharing, Personal, Robotech, SciFi, Star Wars, Television, Transformers, Voltron Continue reading

17Mar/100

I’m getting sick of media bias

I'd been wondering how the other networks would spin Obama's Fox News interview (in which he ignored, evaded, and fumbled his way through the questions)... now I know.

I just saw the NBC4 local news bit (yes, the press is covering the press... as if there's nothing else to talk about), and they only talked about Obama getting interrupted by the Fox News interviewer (who was interrupting because Obama was trying to avoid answering the questions he was asking by changing the subject). Yet again, I have no faith in the media delivering unbiased news coverage. Fox leans a bit too far to the right, but the rest tend to lean so far left they're practically horizontal.Whatever happened to dispassionately reporting the facts and letting the viewers/readers decide their own opinions?

And to make things worse... they spent more time on the story about Sandra Bullock's marital problems than they did on the hard news of the health care reform debate. Seriously? For those who wonder why I'm not working as a newspaper editor anymore, this is why.

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16Jul/090

Zombies in Pop Culture

For the midterm in my Speech class, we were required to give an 8-minute informative speech on a topic of our choice, and were urged to pick unusual topics. Naturally, I picked zombies, and eventually presented a history of zombies in pop culture. Here's the outline of my speech.