Wikets is a great new app for recommending your favorite places and things to your friends. It’s so new, in fact, that they’re constantly updating and improving it. The newest feature to be added is the Question Stream. This is the way you ask for things you need rec’s on. Here’s what it looks like: [...]
We saw the Hunger Games on Opening Day, my kids and I and a bunch of friends. And we all loved it! We’d all read the book, except my 9-year-old, but even he loved the movie. My 12-year-old, who read the book before I did, rated the movie at an 8.5, since he has now [...]
You may recall I mentioned Wikets a few weeks ago. It’s the app that lets you recommend places and products to your friends – and see rec’s from them as well. The thing I like best about it is I see who’s making the rec’s and can evaluate them that way. I don’t like other [...]
The Hunger Games opens in theaters tonight at midnight, but because I’m not the late-night type, my kids and I will be seeing it tomorrow. And we’re so excited! I’m so excited, in fact, that I bought tickets in advance, and I may or may not be taking my kids out of school early because [...]
The AquaBats! Super Show! is a new show on The Hub network, starring a rag-tag band of Super Heroes, who also just happen to be, well, a Band. Plus this past weekend’s episode guest starred John Heder, of Napoleon Dynamite fame. From the co-Creator of Yo Gabba Gabba, the Aquabats is funny in a quirky [...]
Our pet Leopard Gecko, who came to us named Saurus and we then re-named Sandstorm, passed away last week and we had a little memorial service for him in the back yard.
Disney was launched in 1923, but it wasn’t until 2008 that they launched their official fan club, D23, along with the biannual D23 Expo, which showcases the Disney Legends, selections from the Disney Archives, and stars & memorabilia from Disney movies and shows, both past and present. And starting this Spring, D23 Members will be [...]
The Descendants is a delightful movie, launching on DVD this Tuesday, March 13th. Directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney, I saw the movie in the theater, and in January wrote about why I thought The Descendants deserved to win a Golden Globe. The DVD doesn’t disappoint. As I said in my other post, [...]
The small school auditorium holds barely 100 people and not all the chairs were full. Unlike the Oscars, there were no seat-fillers making sure the event looked well-attended. The amateur emcee made nearly inappropriate jokes in her opening remarks, but luckily we all let them slide. We were there to celebrate our kids. My son’s [...]
Yes, I am training to run the Hollywood Half Marathon in April and I sometimes wake up and wonder how I got here. But then it all comes back to me: how I got suckered into signing up in the New Year’s resolution haze of January, how I thought it would be so much fun, [...]