Being Human on Syfy

Being Human is the story of three friends sharing an apartment-one vampire, one werewolve, and one ghost.  The show started out on the BBC, which makes sense since having a flatmate is the normal state of affairs in cities like London and Bristol.  I had my doubts about the basic premise working in America, where everyone has their own place.  But it looks like it will be fine. One of The Wife’s complaints is a simple one-NBC Universal is run by idiots.  Or as my hero Rickey Gervais would say, NBC Universal is run by fucking idiots.  They have a…

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The Social Network

Before The Social Network movie came out, I had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg.  I certainly had never heard of the many other people who went to battle with him over the billion dollar empire that Facebook has become.  And even now, just a couple of hours after watching The Social Network, I couldn’t tell you who any of these other people are.  Other than the fact that two of them were twins with weird last names who rowed in the Olympics. But I did like the movie.  There is something just flat out amazing about the idea that some…

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