Game Review: Trauma Center: Under The Knife 2
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase DS Game] The great thing about the Nintendo DS is that while it’s a hand-held system, it’s got enough power to be a decent standard system, too — along with a lot of great games for the system….
Review: Thigmotactic
OnImage by Chuckumentary via Flickr [Purchase CD] The new Negativland album is quite different than all their other albums — if absolutely forced to pick a comparison, it might be something like Dispepsi jammed through Points. If you’ve heard those albums, you…
Fashion “Design”
OnI’m not a person who is interested in fashion at all. I just don’t get it. This is most likely obvious if you’ve ever seen me. If I had to actually dress in a style that wasn’t just “Band-shirts-and-dockers-or-jeans-that-cover-body”, it’d probably be…
Discussing Movies: The Cult of Taste
OnCover of Dune (Widescreen) There are two ways to talk about movies: in absolutes/closed conversation, and in discussion/dialogue. In the first instance, for example, someone says ‘I hate The New Barbarians, it is such a terrible movie’ which closes the conversation. It…
Book Review: Righting The Mother Tongue
On[Purchase Book] Language is a topic that’s right up my alley; I like hearing about how it’s formed and how it is used. I wish I were better at learning foreign languages, in fact, since it’s something I find fascinating… just something…
Old and Young; a Conversation
OnTwo guys, a 20-something and a 70-something, e-mail about the differences, and the alikes.
DVD Review: The Damaged Tapes
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase DVD] A lot of people are familiar with “Dead Puppies Aren’t Much Fun”; some are probably familiar with “Kinko The Clown“, and maybe even “Daddy’s Money“, all common appearances on the Dr. Demento show. But I don’t know…
Book Review: Wertham Was Right!
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] The title of this second volume of Mark Evanier‘s POV columns will likely get the eyes of any comic book fan — and most likely get their dander up. Granted, most comic fans would recognize Evanier’s name…
Comic Review: Incredible Change-Bots
On[Purchase Book] Jeffrey Brown is probably most known for his autobiographical comics like Unlikely, Clumsy and AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy (my favorite of the trilogy) — each following his awkward relationships with a different woman per book. After that, he’d done a…