Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6


  How “The Fast and the Furious” franchise is still operational after 12 years is beyond me. The series should’ve crashed-and-burned after 2006’s dreadful third installment, “Tokyo Drift,” which saw the primary cast bail on the fast cars that made them famous. A lack of success outside of Universal’s lucrative property Read more

10 Things You Need to Know About Babies That Doctors WILL NOT Tell You


I'm full of sage wisdom. Even before I was a parent, I knew that you should never push a child off a bicycle... unless you're trying to teach them some sort of lesson. Like all new fathers, the minute my son was born I discovered that I instantly knew Read more

Concert Review: The Shins, Minglewood Hall, 5/18/2013


First off, let me commend the city of Memphis for what is shaping up to be the best year of live music the city has seen in years, maybe even decades. Between the big name, stadium shows (Elton John, Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake), the enjoyable outdoor shows (Bob Dylan/Wilco/My Read more

Political Passport: Everything You Need to Know about the IRS Scandal


I've recently been asked to contribute occasionally to PolicyMic , an up-and-coming website striving to be an interactive and intelligent forum for diverse views on all topics affecting the Millennial Generation. Fear not, I'll always excerpt and link these posts here on The Wise Guise as well so you can Read more

Jack Bauer, Michael J. Fox, and Agent Coulson - They're Back!


Jack Bauer and 24 are BACK! I've tried to contain my excitement to just a few social media posts every day. It's been a wild week at work and spending as much time as possible with my new baby nephew Walt, so that's helped distract me from sitting on the couch in Read more

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby


It’s everything you ever dreamed it would be. The elaborate costumes, the overblown sets, the dazzling effects, the quick and furious cuts, the smoothly incorporated soundtrack – all the hallmarks of director Baz Luhrmann are apparent in “The Great Gatsby.” Well, for the first hour, they’re there, at least. Per Read more

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SPECIAL FEENY DAY: THE LEGEND RETURNS!

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News about Girl Meets World is coming in at such record pace that we can’t until Good Friday for the latest update. Not only is this because there’s so much quantity of news and pictures coming in from the set, but because of the utmost QUALITY OF THE NEWS WE HAVE TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY!

Ever since the first Feeny Fridays where we recapped Feeny’s wisdom from the first season, our main focus in rewinding to our childhood (and our young adulthood watching reruns, if we’re honest) has been to glean life wisdom from George Feeny.

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Feeny Friday: Uncle Shawn & Uncle Eric Joining Girl Meets World?

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Since the new era of Feeny Friday has begun with our in-depth look at the production of Girl Meets World and campaign to bring back Feeny to give us more wisdom, we here at The Wise Guise have been staying up to date. And there are a number of things we’ve learned. As Adele might say, rumor has it that production has begun on the pilot episode of Girl Meets World. And, although the radar remains relatively silent on Feeny’s return, we have learned a lot. And there’s greater hope for Uncle Eric & Uncle Shawn to show up than ever before!

Without further ado, I present…

THE TOP EIGHT LATEST THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT GIRL MEETS WORLD

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THE BACHELOR FINALE RECAP AHHHHH

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Like most of America, I fast forwarded through much of The Bachelor finale, only to be disappointed with the fact that Sean picked Catherine, someone I barely even knew was on the show.

Poor Lindsay: She walked through a bunch of woods and rocks only to get dumped on national television despite the fact that she was sure she was about to get engaged.  I’ve been dumped in a lot of different ways, but that, folks, is simply awful.

But, because she apparently is a ROCK STAR, she barely cried, she walked away, and she didn’t say anything stupid or too pathetic until she was in the car.  That almost never happens.

 Then Sean picked Catherine and we all yawned. 

 THE BACHELOR FINALE RECAP AHHHHH

Catherine and Sean get weird. (From WetPaint)

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The Bachelor Recap: All The Things We’ve Learned

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This week’s episode of The Bachelor was spectacularly awful.  To be honest, I could barely stand to watch the majority of it, as nobody says or does anything interesting, and I don’t find Sean to be ridiculously attractive (as it seems the rest of the country does).  Furthermore, the gratuitous shots of him in tank tops staring into the sun are starting to get a bit redundant.

Highlights of this episode? THE PREVIEWS.  Things we can learn from this episode?

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The Bachelorette: Season Finale Commentary

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 The Bachelorette: Season Finale Commentary

“Gang’s all here.”

I can’t sleep, guys.  It’s 4:00 in the morning, and somewhere Jef Holm is a future-daddy to TeenMomChildRicki.

First of all, I want to say that these recaps are not about being right.  They are, as you would suspect, also about finding true love.  Which is why I’ll still leave my phone number at the end of this one—and I’ll consider leaving my address.  Now, there won’t be tons of highlights from this episode, as I was too devastated to take serious notes, but I do have a few things to say.

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The Bachelorette – Episode Nine Commentary

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“I HAD THE BEST DAY WITH YOU!”

Anyone who watches The Bachelorette knows that superlatives rule all, and that anyone can have three best days with three best guys. So, we got to hear about how Emily and Sweaty(Seeya!)Sean, Arie, and One-f-Jef had the absolute best days of their lives with the absolute best girl Emily who has made them feel like no one else in the world has ever in their whole lives and how they are madly, deeply, truly in love with her the most that a human can be, and how if this were the real world—wouldn’t this sort of weird-ass love rectangle be the cause of some serious scorn and maybe even illegal somewhere? Read more

Feeny Friday – “Class Pre-Union”

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Welcome back, Feeny fanatics!

Episode Title: “Class Pre-Union”  Originally aired November 26, 1993.

Episode Summary: Mr. Feeny gives an assignment to the class to predict where their life will be by their 20th class reunion, and a special guest appearance from a legendary Hall-of-Fame pitcher!

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Entertainment Inspirations: Summer with The Sandlot

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Sandlot Entertainment Inspirations: Summer with The Sandlot

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I own approximately eight movies. Two of them are Baz Luhrmann films that I will speak of another time. Two are suspense thrillers. Two are 90s’ teen flicks. One is Shawshank Redemption. And the last, my dearies, is The Sandlot. Also known as the best movie ever made in the world. Read more

The Bachelorette: Episode Seven Commentary

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“I wanna date you so hard and marry the f-ck out of you.”

These are the words One-F-Jef said to me last night during the latest installment of The Bachelorette.  You probably thought he was talking to Emily, but you were wrong.  His skinny jeans were looking at me.  And his outer wrist tattoo? That’s of my given name, Elizabeth.  In case you missed it.

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Feeny Friday – “The B-Team of Life”

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This week’s Feeny Friday comes to us from Friend of The Wise Guise and regular guest blogger, Jay “Jayzor” Salato. Some call him Coach Jayzor. Some just call him Coach. Regardless, he’s back in America, back to living the summer life of a teacher, and back to spending regular time with Mr. Feeny himself. Enjoy this week’s Feeny Friday from him and, as always, here’s the video if you want to follow along at home… Happy Feeny Friday! Read all the way to the end to read the lyrics of a Jayzor original diddy in tribute to Boy Meets World, which holds a special place in Joseph and Jay’s best friendship as they began their friendship over watching Boy Meets World every Wednesday afternoon together.

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