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The Manly Musical

I love Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) on How I Met Your Mother. I love Nathan Fillion from Firefly. When I found out about Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, I had to watch it. By the way, why am I always late to finding good stuff? First Firefly/Serenity, now this… Anyway, this is a manly musical. Why? [...]

How Did I Miss Out on Firefly?

My wife and I started watching Firefly last week on Netflix. We decided to watch Firefly because we love Adam Baldwin on Chuck. We have watched 6 episodes; here’s my official one word review: amazing. Great stories, original concept, decent special effects (for TV). It’s a shame it didn’t last more than 11 episodes. (11 shows were aired, 14 [...]

Cutting Our Monthly Expenses

We finally did it – we ended our monthly dish/cable expense. With primetime television now showing reruns or crappy reality shows, we just don’t watch that much TV. It was time to drop Dish Network. Total savings: $65 a month. Don’t worry, Manly Dad still has plenty of entertainment choices thanks to Netflix. The online [...]

Dear Sportscenter

Dear Sportscenter, I tuned in to your broadcast last night to catch the latest highlights in baseball. I had a few minutes to kill before we started watching our Monday night shows. Apparently, an NBA playoff game had just concluded. I dutifully sat through the highlights and a little “analysis” hoping the baseball highlights would [...]

Fantasy Baseball Junkie

My love affair with fantasy baseball began 10 years ago in 2001. My friend introduced me to it and I quickly learned the ropes. It was a hobby my nerdy brain could finally support and be very competitive in. Soon I rose the rank of league commissioner. After a few years, I joined another league…then [...]

Looking for that TV Theme Song?

On Monday I was spent some quality time with my boy.  Like I mentioned yesterday, he loves Spider-Man.  So he asked me to find the theme song from Spectacular Spider-Man. A few Google searches later and Voilà!  Found it on TelevisionTunes.com.  I spent a good 30 minutes on that site playing TV theme songs from my childhood: [...]

Spider-Man Bedtime Stories

I usually tell my 4 year old a bedtime story every night.  It’s part of the nightly routine.  Honestly, sometimes I half-ass it with a short story (yeah, I feel a little guilty about that).   However, last night I turned in a solid performance. Lately, my son has been into Spider-Man and Super Hero [...]

Watching the Kids

Tonight I had to watch the kids during that dreadful hour between dinner and bedtime.  It actually wasn’t too bad: minimal crying, very little fighting, and no big messes to clean up.  How did I manage that? I was focused on 8 pm…that’s the magical bedtime.  I had to pick up the toys, give the [...]

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