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April 2, 2013
TV Flashback: Watching ‘Battlestar Galactica’ For the First Time
Considering how ultimately dour the mood of the show is – I mean, it is about the genocide of the human race and all so I don’t blame it, anyway – what nobody really mentions about Battlestar Galactica is how compulsively watchable it is in the early going. That was a pleasant surprise for me, [...]
April 1, 2013
The Five Disappointments
A while ago, somebody sent me a link to this article on Cracked that was something like “Five Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person.” I didn’t really care for it, and I’m not really sure how anybody looks at Alec Baldwin’s speech in the beginning of Glengarry, Glen Ross in its context [...]
March 31, 2013
Happy Day of the Living Dead!
As all of you know, today is Easter, a day in which Christians celebrate the terrible majesty of their Undead God. In thirty-three AD, a criminal madman was sentenced to death by the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. Three days after the execution, the man returned from Hell leading an army of the damned, and changing [...]
March 28, 2013
I Have Some Opinions about Buzz Bissinger
So, maybe you hear about this crazy GQ article in which my fellow Philadelphian Buzz Bissinger (author of Friday Night Lights ) talks about how he spent more than half a million dollars on fancy leather clothes, most of which are from Gucci. Now he is in rehab for his shopping addiction. That is good news, because [...]
March 14, 2013
Veronica Mars, Kickstarter, &c.
I was going to write a big screed about this Veronica Mars kickstarter project, and about how ultimately destructive it is for people to base their cultural identity on products provided from an utterly amoral (all corporations are by their nature fundamentally amoral) industry that actually literally is not capable of caring less about them (the [...]
March 4, 2013
Help Me Pick My Next TV Show
It only recently occurred to me that virtually every post I’ve made of late has been focused on comics and/or superheroes. There are a few reasons for this, one of which is, shit man, that’s just what I like. I’m pretty knowledgeable on the subject and those tend to be evergreen posts. That Iron Man [...]
February 21, 2013
There’s two of everyone on ‘Arrow’
As Arrow chugs along, banging through the lackluster first few episodes to – where it is now – a pretty solid back-half of a season that’s put some interesting long-term stories into play, some things are becoming clear. OK, some things other than “Man, they are not spending a lot of money on this show” [...]
February 20, 2013
Oh my: J.J. Abrams’ ‘Superman’ script
It’s a shame that that particular plot won’t fill out a runtime, and that’s when the Ninja Warriors From Space show up.
February 16, 2013
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: Monkeywrench
Someone build this tool for me, and I will pay you a handsome sum of dollars. FEATURES 1. Ratchet screwdriver with six interchangeable bits stored in the grip: 3 reversible (large & small Phillips, flathead, and star bits), 3 non-reversible (precision Phillips, flathead, and star bits) (9 bits total). 2. 8 MP camera, still and [...]
February 12, 2013
The three best comics of 2012, including the one that isn’t
Don’t you love the phrase “Rocketship Forest”?
