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Book 45 (of 52) – Big Fan

Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love – Michael Schur and Joe Posnanski

Two friends and podcast partners travel the globe to find out the meaning behind fandom.  What do we as a species get from investing our time and hearts into things that bring us immense joy and bitter upset.  Whether it is baseball, basketball, chess, darts, football, soccer, pickleball, the WWE, Taylor Swift, or Star Wars, they bring us to the very heart of what it means to love something so much it hurts.

Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love, by television comedy writer Michael Schur and sportswriter Joe Posnanski, looks at all of the things we love and tries to dig into why we love them.  Along the way, the experience new sports, music, and people, gaining a greater appreciation for what it means to be a fan and of the things for which we are fans.

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2011 Movie Review – Part 2

The 131 movies I saw last year was good (bad?) enough for 4th all time, behind only 2000, 2008, and 2001.

Now, continuing Tuesday’s look at the first batch of 50 movies that I saw last year, here are movies 51-100.

 

The Thirst (2006)
A dying girl becomes a vampire to stay alive.

 

The Good Life (2007)
A kid who doesn’t fit in meets a girl who encourages him to look beyond the town’s borders.

 

Thor (2011)
The Norse thunder god falls from grace and recovers quickly to save Asgard.

 

The American (2010)
George Clooney stars as a former hitman trying to go straight.

 

Due Date (2010)
Robert Downey Jr goes through his own Planes, Trains, and Automobiles moments while trying to get home for the birth of his child.

 

Valentine’s Day (2010)
A group of vignettes celebrating the day that celebrates love.

 

MacGruber (2010)
The latest one-note SNL sketch to get strectched out to feature length. 

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