An Allegedly Fun Game!
OnImage via Wikipedia So, my glasses broke in two about two weeks ago. This is not fun when, without them, you’re legally blind. Trust me on this one. Anyway, everything’s fine now — I got my new glasses and I can see…
Category: Essays
Longer form pieces.
A MAD Look at MAD Music
OnFor most of its history, MAD magazine has been at the forefront of gleefully juvenile printed humor. Its pop culture spoofs are legendary, its cartoonists among the finest humorists of their generation. But along the way, MAD created some of the most…
A World Gone Mad: The History of Spy vs. Spy
OnAt the end of World War II mankind stared breathlessly into oblivion. Scientists had split the atom, and the Atomic Age had begun. In a matter of months warfare had transformed from year-long conflicts between infantry, to weapons that could vaporize a…
In Defense of Beavis & Butthead
OnYeah, I was going to say: It’s easy to dismiss that series as just ‘idiots on TV watching idiots on TV‘ but if you really stop to appreciate what Mike Judge is laying down there, we’d see that what’s so appealing about…
Things That Are Neat: Breasts!
OnImage via Wikipedia Man, breasts are awesome. I mean I know a lot of people know this and all but sometimes things require saying. Everyone’s got ’em, so that’s kinda cool, and also they come in all sorts of different sizes and…
Unrelated Memory #14756
OnImage via Wikipedia It’s early in the morning and I’m riding the bus home, since I work nights. I’m reading, because:a) I like to read, andb) reading is about the clearest way I can think of to go “HEY PEOPLE ON BUS…
On Seeing Emo Philips At A Terrible, Now Defunct, Comedy Club Several Years Ago
OnCover of Emo Philips CHAPTER 1: THE SADDEST CLUB ON EARTH Field Marshall Stack, Dale and I got to see Emo Philips March 12, 2004, at the Urban Comedy And Jazz Cafe in Seattle. We arrived about 8:30 or so and sat…
Unrelated Memory #17495
OnImage via Wikipedia One year at Halloween, when Field Marshall Stack and I were in high school, we went to his neighborhood, went to the closest 7/11, got as much candy as we could afford (which wasn’t much, as we didn’t have…
Point/Point: The Comic Code Authority
OnImage via Wikipedia The Comic Book Industry, and I, Grow Up by D.J. Sylvis For comic book fans, last week signalled the end of an era as the last few publishers abandoned the Comics Code Authority. It was actually an era…
Music Video Treatments: Nightmare Dance Club
OnImage via Wikipedia The setting is a ballroom, dark and perhaps sort of dingy — think the rave in Zion from the second Matrix movie, but the difference is that instead of the audience finding it unpleasant, the ravers are the ones…