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Archive for June, 2008

Protected: Year of a Million Dreams

"Year of a Million Dreams." That's Disney's marketing line this year. For me and my family the year of a million dreams ends today as our annual passes finally expire. I can't say we didn't get a lot of use out of them. We went to Disneyland and the adjacent California Adventure once or twice a month. This is the second →


San Diego Comic Con Hot Wheels 1966 Batmobile George Barris

I wanted to follow up my first review with a photo of one of my son's most prized Batmobiles. This is one Batmobile my son doesn't get to play with. Not yet anyway. It's a 1/64th scale version of the 1966 Batmobile made popular by the television series of the same year. The diecast was made by Hot Wheels and sold →


Toy Review: DC Super Friends My First Batmobile

My first toy review will be the DC Super Friends My First Batmobile. Although this isn't my son Logan's first batmobile, it is the first batmobile out of it's original factory-sealed packaging that he can actually play with. This toy is meant for ages 3 and up but my soon to be two year old loves playing with it. Out of →


Twenty Four

Twenty Four. The MVP wears it. Twenty Four. The Lakers led by that much during game 4. Twenty Four. I cursed at my TV at least twenty four times during the 3rd and 4th quarters. As a Laker fan this has been one of the most devastating losses I've ever witnessed. It is hard to believe even the strong willed →


iWant the new iPhone

So we're exactly one month away from the release of the new iPhone. Coincidentally, my contract for Verizon has finally ended. Let me start out by saying I will be purchasing a new iPhone on July 11. In fact, I will be buying two (1 for me and 1 for Vee). However, unlike my Apple Fanboy friend Drew, I'm a →


Fiasco. A Debacle even.

No, I'm not referring to the Lakers being down to the hated Boston Celtics two games to 1. Yesterday, the tenant of my condo in downtown San Diego flooded the unit and caused damage to every condo unit below mine all the way down to the freakin' parking garage. Somehow, he thought the toilet would be a terrific place to discard →


RoguePinoy.com v2.0?

  I don't think so. For those that don't know me I was known for a time as RoguePinoy. I used to have a photo blog that I started back in 1999 when I worked for CollegeClub.com. It was a time when blogging wasn't as mainstream as it is now. Most of the bloggers during that era didn't have such cool →