All Things To All People
Once upon a time there was a catmorph named Suzanne. She sat at the breakfast table as she did every morning. The cup of coffee warmed her paws, and her tail twitched thoughtfully. She glanced at the newspaper sitting nearby but was…
[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,…
A 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…
[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…
[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…
Just 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…
Image 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…
[ 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…
[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…
Image 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…