Blogcritics Author: Bekah Terry

People Watcher

Bekah Terry — Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:14:31 EST

Hello, my name�s Bekah, and I�m addicted to watching others.
It happens now, all the time. It doesn’t matter where I am, whether I am walking down a sidewalk, sitting in a classroom, eating in a restaurant, or idling in my car at a stoplight, I still do it. I can’t help it. My eyes move of their own accord. They traverse from side to side, up and down. My head submits to their curiosity and tilts...

Alternative Energy: Are New Energy Currents Finally Joining The Mainstream?

Bekah Terry — Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:38:05 EST

Alternatives to our present energy sources will provide the power for all sorts of possibilities.
Alternative energy is no longer quite so alternative. With recent developments, finding new energy sources or producers is not as unconventional as it once was. Aside from ex-VPs traveling around in jets and spewing information about global warming and the need for new energy sources, Congress has implemented real legislation to address these...

Book Review: Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Bekah Terry — Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:26:09 EST

Before reading this, I never knew dead people could be so "lively."
Normally, a person dies at the conclusion of the book. End of life usually equals end of story. But, for author Mary Roach (Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex), death is just the beginning. Her book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, released in 2003, takes kicking the bucket to a whole new...

DVD Review: Dexter - Season Two

Bekah Terry — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:13:05 EDT

A series about a surprising serial killer.
Murder took on a whole new meaning in 2006 when Showtime aired its new hit series Dexter. The television show captured audiences everywhere with its first season, and then brought them in for the kill in 2007 with its second season, recently released on DVD August 19. In the show, Dexter (Michael C. Hall, Six Feet Under), the main character,...

Movie Review: Redbelt

Bekah Terry — Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:01:45 EDT

An awesome movie for those who enjoy real-style fighting in their kung fu movies.
Redbelt, the most recent movie by director and screenwriter David Mamet, is the kung fu movie I hadn’t realized I’d wanted to see. Well, kung fu isn’t quite correct. Actually jiu-jitsu, a style of fighting more effective but considerably less showy than kung fu, is portrayed in this film. Basically it’s real, or at least it...

Satire: How To Be A Bike Snob

Bekah Terry — Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:06:50 EDT

Here's a pretty one, a red cruiser bike perfect for showing yourself off around town.
Since the invention of the wheel, how we travel and how fast we travel has changed. No, not changed -- it has improved. Almost every major form of transportation depends upon the wheel in some form or other. It has gone, in a mere 5,500 years, from a rotating wooden slab attached to an ancient Mesopotamian cart, to a high-velocity spin demon made...