By Dante Spado I finally realized AI is cool. It didn’t write me an award-winning headline or design a visually stunning ad. It just introduced me to a good new song. I’ll be the first to admit I’ve been a little standoffish toward this AI revolution. While others let ChatGPT write their emails, I was like the old man yelling at a cloud. “These AIs are gonna take my job!” While AIs like ChatGPT and…
By Dante Spado Spoilers for episode one of Loki I’m baaaack. Like Loki himself, you may have thought I was gone, but I’m here to make a glorious return in the form of a new blog. I’m hot off watching the Loki series premiere and I thought it was only fair to write a blog about it, just like I did for the other two Marvel shows. Instantly, I get WandaVision vibes from this show.…
By Dante Spado Nearly two years ago my roommate Randy and I struck a deal. If I watched Breaking Bad (the show he considers to be the greatest of all time), he would watch LOST (the show I consider to be the greatest of all time). I’ve since watched Breaking Bad all the way through twice. Randy had a point, it is a really great show, probably the best ever. But I still love LOST.…
By Dante Spado GameStop has been a topic of hot conversation for the last few months after shaking up the world of stocks. It went from being a failing company to a Fortune 500 in a matter of days. For those like me, GameStop isn’t equated to stocks and Reddit, but to childhood memories of gaming. I remember going to the GameStop in Concord Mills in the third grade to do a Pokemon event where you…
By Dante Spado It’s a common practice that juniors and seniors move off-campus for housing during their time at UNC, and I am no different. In my junior year, I lived in Shortbread Lofts, and while my roommates and I enjoyed our time there, we decided to find somewhere else to live for senior year. We house-hunted on Zillow for a few weeks before we finally found a place that suited all of our needs.…
By Dante Spado Have you ever been sitting around with nothing to do and you find yourself skimming through channels on TV? You see all the usual stuff you never click on; Dr. Phil, Law and Order and the afternoon news. But then something catches your eye, a movie that you love, maybe one you haven’t seen in a long time. And then you sit there for two hours and watch the whole thing. I…
By Dante Spado Better Call Saul, the spinoff show of the award-winning Breaking Bad, is entering its final season in a few months. Throughout the show’s five amazing seasons there have been tons of character crossovers from the flagship show. Characters I never expected to see, such as Gustavo Fring and Hank Schrader, have popped up in Saul Goodman’s origin story, either with major, season-long roles or just sticking around for a few episodes. However,…
By Dante Spado Spoilers for Godzilla vs. Kong. The day of reckoning finally arrived. The big lizard fought the big monkey, and it was everything I wanted it to be. But who won? And did Alex (my Kong-supporting roommate) and I (a staunch Godzilla enthusiast) kill each other? Thankfully, we did not. But we spent the entire day harassing each other and egging one another on about our favorite fighter. I wrote about this before…
By Dante Spado Spoilers for the first two episodes below. In my second blog, I wrote about WandaVision, so it only felt right that I returned to the MCU and talked about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. In that blog, I highlighted the minor side characters, like Jimmy and Darcy, and talked about how they were the best part of the show. TFWS took a similar approach by putting Sam and Bucky at the…
By Dante Spado Breaking Bad is one of the most renowned shows of all time, up there with the likes of The Sopranos. I’ve seen it through twice and I truly love it. I don’t think I can say anything unique about it that hasn’t been said before because it really is one of the greatest shows of all time. Of course, the success of the main show spawned a sequel movie, El Camino, and…