So this past weekend I become the last person on Earth to see Avatar.  Let me tell you I wasn’t as unimpressed as I thought I would be given James Cameron’s last three hour blockbuster (looking at you Titanic).  Let me just address the 500 lb gorilla, elephant, or whatever it is that’s in the [...]

Let me just be honest with everyone here, when I started the idea of this series I had thought to have a series called “Less Expensive than Blockbuster” to express my frustration with the cost of renting a movie these days.  As time went buy I thought of things less expensive than Blockbuster, including buying [...]

Want a 2009 Ferrari F430?  Sure, but you’ll have to shell out $220,000 for the pleasure.  Let’s say you don’t have the best of credit and you opt for a 5 year auto loan with zero down at 7%. You’ll end up spending  about $140 per day for that puppy.  For that cost you could [...]

The first in the series will most likely seem like the most outlandish, but is it? The Apollo 11 mission that first landed man on the moon started many years earlier in May of 1961 when JFK gave his famed speech. Over the next 8 years and 2 months the cost of that promise would [...]

Today I am beginning a new series entitled “Less Expensive than the Regal”. It is meant purely for comic value and discusses the rising cost of the movies. A few things need to be set up that will often be used as estimations in this series. One: Movie theaters tend to have between 200 and [...]