Book Review: Surviving Justice
On[Purchase Book] This book made me angry. Enraged, in fact. So, why am I writing a review of it? More to the point, why am I not posting a review under ANGRY JOE!!!’s name? Because this is the intent of the book,…
Film Review: Frau Plastic Chicken Show
OnA while ago, the Grand Illusion in Seattle screened The Frau Plastic Chicken Show aka Nexxt. The basic setup: It’s an episode of a TV News Magazine Show looking at the Serial Killer phenomenon, featuring the person A Clockwork Orange was based…
Comic Review: Jeremy
On[Purchase Book via Lulu] Full disclosure here, folks — I’ve known Calamity Jon online for a few years now, and before I knew him, I did a piece on Gone & Forgotten, his Classic Comic Makin’ Fun Of Site, for my college…
Film Review: Battle Royale
On[Purchase DVD] Sometimes when I can’t sleep, my brain wanders to thinking about lots of things. Sometimes it thinks about the horrible, horrible, horrible movie Battle Royale, and all the billions of things wrong with it. I figure that if I actually…
The Bass Player
OnJust like every other night. Playing bass in a run down bar, part of the house band. You’re not bad, not bad at all, but you’re also not good. Passable work, but that’s all you’re paid for. You’ve seen it all. By…
Review: Duck Stab
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase CD] In 1972, an anonymous group of musicians from Shreveport, Louisiana released their first single, “Santa Dog” — but not in the normal fashion one normally goes about releasing a debut single. This band pressed up 300 copies…
Book Review: I Am A Strange Loop
On[ Purchase Book ] Douglas Hofstadter was one of my favorite authors in high school. After Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, I devoured all his other books I could find. His last, Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of…
Review: The Official Secrets Act
On[Purchase CD] For a while, it seemed that whenever I’d go to a used record store, they’d always have a copy of Official Secrets Act by M. Strangely enough, none of his other records. I think I ended up giving up looking…
Forever In The Third Booth On The Left
OnImage via Wikipedia The New Luck Toy is that restaurant you go to when it’s your thirteenth birthday and your parents tell you that you’re growing into an adult and can choose anything on the menu. You feel your flesh sink into…
Review: REVENGE!
On[Purchase CD] It might be bad form to open a record review by praising the album art rather than the music inside, but, well, most records don’t have album art as good as REVENGE! If I were to give an award for…