The Literary Thunderdome

The true worth of a $20 trophy

By Derek • Feb 15th, 2010

The $20 bit is an exaggeration, or not, I’m not sure how much the thing cost.
I grew up in Belle Fourche, SD.  That’s South Dakota not San Diego to our non-Dakota fans.  I went through all of my school in Belle.  During that time I was lucky enough to be involved in a lot of [...]



Smallville: Absolute Justice – Absolute Win

By Derek • Feb 10th, 2010

Everyone out there knows I am a huge nerd.  Especially when it comes to DC comics.  ‘Smallville’ is one of those things I don’t talk about as much, because frankly sometimes it is pretty damn cheesy, but it is a show I thoroughly enjoy.  Thanks to Travis Floyd for loaning me the series so I [...]



Human Target – A 40 Min Action Movie

By Derek • Feb 8th, 2010

I know I’ve been a little sparse on posts lately.  That is because the One-Act I wrote and directed with Jesse made it all the way to State competition.  Things have been crazy getting prepared for that and then actually going down there.  It has been a great experience, but also a drain on my [...]



Taylor Swift – More like Taylor, um, crap

By Derek • Feb 4th, 2010

Sorry, couldn’t think of something that rhymes with Swift to express how much I dislike this girl.  Now don’t jump down my throat saying she is such a nice girl.  I’m sure she is a nice person, but I dislike what she represents to music in general.
Gift… dammit that is the opposite of what I [...]



Haze – A Sobering Documentary

By Derek • Jan 23rd, 2010

I try to be funny with my posts.  It doesn’t always work, but I try and keep a light hearted-feel to my posts.  This is not one of those posts.
I was taking a break from working on a video project and didn’t want to watch anything I own so I decided to hit up Hulu.  [...]



The Phantom Menace Review – Review

By Derek • Jan 22nd, 2010

This title is a little misleading, I’m not going to actually review ‘The Phantom Menace Review,’ I just wanted to let all you beautiful people out there know about this.
This guy at Red Letter Media has put together a 70 minute review of ‘The Phantom Menace.’  OK, not so much of a review, more of [...]



Well, Chuck me.

By Derek • Jan 15th, 2010

It’s finally back, fresh off being named my top show of 2009, ‘Chuck’ returns for Season 3.  I’m sure they were very honored by mentioned in a Dirty Sprocket blog.
You are asking yourself now why you should care that ‘Chuck’ is back, well you are a fool.  ‘Chuck’ is awesomeness incarnate on TV.  It is [...]



I’m With COCO

By Derek • Jan 13th, 2010

Dammit I’m with COCO!  You should all be with COCO too.  If you don’t know what this means, you are a fool.  Not really, but you will know now.
I have loved Conan O’Brien ever since he want on the air with ‘The Late Show.’  It was always brilliant and funny.  Conan, or COCO, as always [...]



Human Drama – Welcome to the NFL

By Derek • Jan 8th, 2010

I love me some football, love it.  I mentioned this in my last post, it’s worth mentioning it again.  I love watching football.  Now a couple of weeks ago I caught a Facebook discussion on a friend’s page.  It was discussing how they didn’t dig the NFL.  That’s cool, to each his own.  Then other [...]



Drive-By Truckers – And the Real Country Music

By Derek • Jan 6th, 2010

I love football, specifically the NFL.  This is my time right now, playoffs are upon us and I have several teams to root for and those to root against.  (I’m looking in your stupid direction Tom Brady)  The only downside of watching the NFL is all the stupid commercials, specifically the push for the Grammys [...]