Rueben’s Ramblings

Everyone hates being sick, right? There is nothing worse than coming down with a nasty head cold and cough especially after attending Comic Con, which is prone to causing many of its attendees to either get sick during or after the annual fete. The only good thing that comes out of being sick – if you can look at it …

Comic Con has come and gone once again; and I have survived the 4 and a half days of mayhem, excitement, packed panel rooms, sleepless nights and aching muscles. But beyond all that “stuff” the convention is always one of my most favorite times of the year for me. Over the course of 4 days I got to see some …

Once again it is time for me – and my friends as well as my fellow NiceGirls – to travel to San Diego for the 2010 Comic Con. As in years past, 9 years to be exact, I save up money from the end of the previous convention until the start of the new one in order to make the …

Who says that summer TV is boring? I know I sure don’t because, while there may not be the volume of shows on during the summer like there is during the normal TV viewing season (which typically runs from September to May), there are still a lot of great TV shows to enjoy when you’re not out in the sun …

On July 8, the Emmy Award nominations will be announced and this year’s candidates are sure to be an interesting mix. But, like every year, there are always actors and actresses as well as television series that seem to go overlooked or just completely forgotten about by the members of the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences AND the National …

Ever since the first Twilight novel was published in October 2005, the book series – that covered three other novels in the course of three years, including New Moon in September 2006, Eclipse in August 2007 and Breaking Dawn in August 2008 – has gained an incredible amount of popularity all over the world and its commercial success is nearly …

Over 11 years ago, I made a decision that changed my life in a most profound way. After a trip to sunny Los Angeles for my very first sci-fi convention, which was actually my 5th trip to California, I had an epiphany: I wanted, needed, HAD to move to California. The news wasn’t that well-received by my family, life-long friends …

In honor of Father’s Day, I felt it was only right to pay a special tribute to just some of the wonderful father and daughter teams that have graced our television sets in recent years. I don’t know about our readers, but I was very fortunate to have had a terrific relationship with my father – who passed away on …

At one point in time in the television landscape, summer was a wasteland of repeats and less than stellar shows that the networks spent money on but were not confident enough to air them during the regular TV line-up. Thankfully, those days are long gone because of all the programming that has been introduced by the cable channels as well …

The 2009-2010 television season has come to an end for the major networks (except for a few shows that returned late in the season) and many bloggers as well as critics have posted their winners and losers for the past season. Like many of my peers, I have created my own list, focusing mainly on dramatic programming (since that is …