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The Lightning Thief
I finally got The Son to listen to chapter books for bedtime reading. I had no success with the Harry Potter books. His babysitter recommended the Percy Jackson books. The premise of the Percy Jackson stories is that Greek mythology is true. Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and the rest of the gods are still with us. [...]
The Princess and the Frog
The Son and I went to see The Princess and the Frog while being snowbound at my in-laws. It wasn’t very good, but it did get us out of the house. You can read more in my post on GeekDad: 10 Things Parents Should Know About The Princess and the Frog. Here are some of [...]
District 9
The Wife and I got a babysitter and went to see District 9. The movie is directed and co-written by the South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp and shot in Johannesburg and the New Zealand studios of producer Peter Jackson. (You may remember him as the director of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.) Jackson [...]
Doug Goes to See Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
The Son and I went to see the new Ice Age movie. He liked the first two and watched them over and over again. But that’s what kids do. The Ice Age movies come out of 20th Century Fox, not Pixar. So they are in not in the same league as Up, Cars, Wall-E, and [...]
Obama Knows Where the Wild Things Are
President Obama did an excellent reading of Where the Wild Things Are as part of the White House Easter Egg Roll. This book is a favorite for me and The Son. For those of you who are unaware, Spike Jonze is directing a movie version of the book. Release is scheduled for October 16, 2009. [...]
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