Practice makes perfect at Men’s Wearhouse
So I’m 16 years old, and I’m in the basement of Bernie’s house. Bernie’s parents have a lot of money, and their basement is a cornucopia of entertainment for high school students who are bored. We...
View ArticleIt’s May. Awesome.
For a long time now — I’m not sure exactly how long — I’ve obsessed over the length of the daylight. All year long, my internal way of marking the passage of the year (aside from obvious things like,...
View ArticleI shot up the place
Today, my friend and coworker Mike and I went out to a gun range and shot a box of ammo at a paper target. A hobby that Mike acquired a year or two ago is clay target shooting with a shotgun. He had...
View ArticleWhen dot-com ventures turn personal
Here’s some food for thought: If you are running a web site, make sure that you maintain as much control over your domain name as you can. That sounds like a no-brainer, but I made a mistake back in...
View ArticleLive from southwest Michigan
I’m on vacation with Kathy and her family in South Haven, Michigan. We’re in a house less than a block from the lake. The weather is beautiful. Most important: It’s early July, and I’m in the...
View Article‘Black Friday’ is patently absurd
Today, the day after Thanksgiving, is “Black Friday,” the busiest and most insane shopping day of the year. Every year the story is the same: We see the news reports about the lengthy lines at the...
View ArticleMemories of a long-ago July … 2007
It’s strange how the changes of the seasons work. It’s summer, and then, suddenly, it’s winter. Or at least that’s how it feels. There’s a month or so of transition (it used to be called “fall,” but it...
View ArticleThe long and busy moving week
From the personal files: I bought a house last week. Here’s a rundown of what moving has entailed. This does not go into details about the buying part in the month leading up to this week. Monday,...
View ArticleThe difficulty of overcoming inertia
One thing that’s been abundantly clear to me about “maintaining” (*) my review site and blog this year: Inertia is a bitch. * I feel the word “maintaining” requires quotes at this moment, seeing as...
View ArticleWhen it comes to social networking, I’m not very social
Working as I do in online media — both as a career and as a free-time hobby — I naturally have to keep up with what’s hot, what’s trending, where everything is going, how people are using online tools...
View ArticleJammer’s hiatus explained with a special announcement
One might be wondering why — with only six TNG reviews to go before finishing up my long-protracted and often-delayed TNG reviewing project, and thus completing my reviews of the entire Trek canon — I...
View ArticleIt’s a wrap: TNG’s ‘All Good Things…’
The first review I wrote for a general audience was a movie review for my high school newspaper, The Inkspot, in 1993. I was co-editor of the paper that year, and that was the beginning of a long...
View ArticleFarewell, Roger Ebert (1942-2013)
Photo by Eileen Ryan It’s probably pretty safe to say that Roger Ebert, by a wide margin, has been the most influential figure on my writing. It’s possible, although far from certain, that had I not...
View ArticleEventually I will write again
Hey, there. How’s it going? I’ve been silent for quite a while on this site that used to be mine. Right now, it seems like it belongs more to the people who comment on the site, because I’ve been MIA...
View ArticleWhy write reviews when I could be applying for a new mortgage?
Will I ever review Star Trek Into Darkness? Yes. It’s just been a hectic and busy past few months. My adorable baby daughter is almost eight months old now and we spend a lot of time playing with her....
View ArticleChecking in for 2014
Hello, everyone. Jammer here. Still alive. Just to let everyone know, this site is not abandoned. Not at all. I continue to read all comments every day posted on the website, via the comment browser,...
View ArticleChecking in for 2014, Part 2
I’ll tell you what, ladies and gentlemen: I didn’t think October, which is almost over, could possibly have gotten here as fast as it did. My last post was in January, days after my little girl took...
View ArticleReflections upon 20 years and the elasticity of time
I’ve always tried not to take time for granted. Even in my mid-20s I was keenly aware of how old I was, how much older I was getting and how quickly, and was always questioning whether I was older than...
View ArticleMy review as ‘Doom’ gets a reboot
A screen shot from the 2016 reboot of Doom. I have to admit the headline above is intentionally misleading, because it makes this missive look like a review of something new rather than a look at...
View ArticleSobering and trivial reflections on a 25th anniversary
Every five years in March, I seem to write this same article reflecting on the history of Jammer’s Reviews and/or the unstoppable passage of time. This marks the fifth of those five-year articles. That...
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