Empty Bookshelf Reviews

Month: August 2006

  • Thinking of What’s Probably the Best Possible Thing to Put in a Going Away Card Ever

    I don’t mean to pat myself on the back….well, okay….yes I do. Someone I know who is from Switzerland (the French-speaking part, for whatever that’s worth) and spent the last few years living in the US is moving back to Switzerland very shortly. A blank-on-the-inside going away card was passed around, and it was obvious […]

  • The Unfair Critical Treatment of Former Boy Band Members

    Let’s see if I can get out some reviews for once… I’m not being profound when I say that success is a great way to turn the less successful against you. In the burgeoning field of critical criticism, this fact is no more obvious than with music critics. Movie critics are relatively high profile (notably […]

  • “Rewriting History”, or “Pluto no longer a planet and Yogi stops smoking”

    Just when you though I wouldn’t be able to find a picture to go with these two topics…. BAM! A few days ago I read that Turner is going back through their catalogue of old Hanna Barbara cartoons to remove all intimations of smoking. First of all, I’m not really sure how they’re going to […]

  • Rockstar: Season 2

    This one may balloon to huge proportions again like the season 2 LOST review. That being said, I’m officially starting it on Friday August 18th… we’ll see how long it takes to finish. One of the contestants on the show is named “Storm Large”. The one night after she performed, Tommy Lee said “I’d like […]

  • The Ubiquitousness of Nic Cage

    I honestly think I’d rather see LUKE Cage than Nic Cage right now. Right now Nicolas Cage is everywhere. It’s hard to turn on the TV and not see his long, thin mug. At the moment, he’s got two movies out… The Ant Bully, and World Trade Center, in which he adds a creepy moustache […]

  • Empty Bookshelf’s First 100 Reviews

    Oh, those kids. Always at it. You guys really shouldn’t’ve. So here we are at the first of what may be a few reviews of our first milestone, 100 reviews. Not only is this the first review of this milestone, but of what could be very many milestones. We here at the Bookshelf like the […]