Gravity's Rainbow, 200-350pp., Matt's Take
OnYay, we’re back on with this! Ben said he was gonna post an essay he’d been working on, but I guess he got waylaid by work or something, so he didn’t. But the fact remains that he TOTALLY SOLD ME OUT in…
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Comic Review: Zot!
OnCover via Amazon [Purchase Book] I’m not sure where comic-critical reception is on Scott McCloud, creator of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics, but I’ve gotta say that I liked, well, at least the first two of those (still haven’t read…
Gravity’s Rainbow, 150-200pp., Matt’s Take
OnAnd with this one, we go into what is, for me, brand new territory. The Leni Pökler flashback (more on that in a bit) is about where I lost the plot (pardon the pun) and ended up putting it down and reading…
The Opposite of Phil Oakey: Top Five Darkest Synthpop Songs
OnCover of Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey Most people are familiar with the light hearted, pop oriented synthpop songs from the early 1980s; “Don’t You Want Me” by the Human League (NOT the early, darker incarnation of the band) and pretty much…
Film Review: Wise Blood
On[Purchase DVD] A bug-eyed young man in an imposing black hat stands on the hood of a rusty car with tailfins, on a street corner in a run-down city. He’s preaching, loudly, to a crowd of scruffy passersby who look like they’ve…
Gravity's Rainbow, 100-150pp., Matt's Take
OnThis is the part of the novel where I stalled out last time — or, rather, just a bit farther. At this point, I was reading, enjoying the combinations of the words and sentences, but not really comphrending anything. This time, I’m…
Comic Review: The Cowboy Wally Show
OnCover of The Cowboy Wally Show [Purchase Book] Kyle Baker is probably most known for Why I Hate Saturn which… I haven’t read yet. But The Cowboy Wally Show was his debut graphic novel, and my second (or perhaps third) experience with…
Eurovision 2009 Live Blogging!
OnTo break in the new Kittysneezes Twitter Feed, we’re going to LiveBlog Eurovision! It starts at 12 Noon PDT, which is, as I type, in about an hour and a half. Once it’s over, I’ll copy/paste it into here, and we’ll be…
To Wrongly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
On[Purchase DVD] By now, I’m sure, many of you have either seen the new Star Trek film, in theatres, or are at least eagerly contemplating doing so on the enthusastic recommendation of your friends. I saw it two nights ago, but even…
Gravity's Rainbow, 50-100pp., Matt's Take
On[Ben’s been murdered at work, so his posts will be along shortly.] It’s in these pages that the story begins to get a little bit more explanatory; not fully so, given that we’re only a 7th of the way in, or, perhaps…