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Eigen League of Monsters, Part Four: Witches

Part of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other.  The first part was about the Vampire, and it's also got my thoughts about what an "Eigen League" is and why I think it's meritorious to discuss this subject.  Long story short:  in a [...]

Eigen League of Monsters, Part Three: G-g-g-g-ghosts!

Part of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other.  The first part was about the Vampire, and it's also got my thoughts about what an "Eigen League" is and why I think it's meritorious to discuss this subject.  Long story short:  in a [...]

Eigen League of Monsters, Part-Two: Wolf-Man

Part of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other.  The first part was about the Vampire, and it's also got my thoughts about what an "Eigen League" is and why I think it's meritorious to discuss this subject.  Long story short:  in a [...][image error]

Eigen League of Monsters, Part One: The Vampire

It has been nearly TWO YEARS since I first published the Hierarchy of Monsters, and in the subsequent time no one has published any modified hierarchy that is more accurate, complete, or awesome.  This means that, by default, I am the internet's leading Monsterologist.  Suck it up, kids, you lost this round. In my role [...]

7 Reasons to Watch 'REVENNNNNNGE!!!!' (AKA, 'Revenge')

I gave this show only a passing comment last post, mostly because I'd only seen the pilot and didn't want to try to sell anyone on a show that would go south by the second episode (which has happened – looking at you, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"). But now that I've caught up, [...]

Personalities

So, here's the thing.  I am looking at going back to school right now, and to that end I'm trying to find some relatively flexible work that pays me essentially enough to keep up with the payments on my car while I wallow in shame about the fact that Jeanine's salary mostly supports the both [...][image error]

I AM SICK

I get sick periodically, more than Holland does. That is because most diseases recognize the superior fecundity of my body. What disease would want to colonize Holland?  It'd be like moving to Venice while it was sinking into the canals. Anyway, I am sick. As I may have mentioned, I am terrified of disease, but [...]

I Speak TV: The Season So Far

2 Broke Girls may be one of the most excruciating comedies I've ever watched for two reasons. The first: Kat Dennings and the other one are good. They're funny, have easy chemistry with each other and are clearly making the best out of some abysmal scripts and stale hipster-bashing (and this is a show that [...]

Thoughts on Practice, and on Swordplay

You guys may or may not know about this, but I've been having some troubles in life lately.  They are, I think, rooted directly in a quirk of my psychology that I want to write about a little bit here, because…well, because I think it's worth writing about, at least, and anyway it's better than [...]

DRACULA UNCONQUERED! The Chris Sims Interview

So, Chris Sims –of ComicsAlliance and Invincible Super-Blog fame — is working on a new comic called Dracula the Unconquered along with Steve Downer and Josh Krach.  The comic comes out at the end of October and, as a prelude to that, I — BRAAK! — was privileged to interview Mr. Sims and discuss some [...]