Video Game: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Mario. 2-D. Old School. Up to 4 players at the same time? I can pick up other people and throw them or bounce off their heads? I think I dreamed of this game in 1993!

Recommend? Me and Maggie played through world one as a (slightly combative, bickering) team..."You made me fall in the hole!" "You took my fire flower!" "Wait for me!" Then we beat one of the Koopa Kids. Tomorrow, the desert world!

Opera : Fall of the House of Usher

This was my very first opera. At first I thought it was going to be pretty neat, since there was a guy acting all agonizing over a letter. And then projectors started up, and all kinds of flashing computer animated pillars and trees and writhing women behind doors showed up on the stage. And then after thirty minutes of this I realized that there wasn't a set built for this opera, and the set was supposed to be in my imagination, and aided by the random flashing images. I think there were about twelve lines of lyrics throughout the whole thing, and mostly a screaming woman and then more flashing images.

Recommend? I left at intermission....

Book: The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

Hey Dan Brown, I have some symbol trivia for you. What comes next in this list of symbols:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, ???

Did you guess 'H'?? Did you guess 'H' because, when you go in an order that everyone knows, you can easily predict what comes next? Do you see where I am going Dan Brown?? Can you read between these lines and see where I am going Dan Brown?!?!?

Recommend? No. Decipher this code, Dan Brown: "F.U."

Movie: Paranormal Activities

It's like the Blair Witch Project! And you think "whoa, I just know this is going to get really creepy" and then you think it does... but then it's over. But you really do think it does!!!

Recommend: I think on dvd when you are all alone and maybe a little drunk....