Review: Snuff Box
OnIs it weird when I end up listening to the soundtrack way, way more than I watch the show? Perhaps, but I’m kind of addicted to Matt Berry’s score for Snuff Box. Of course, this isn’t saying that the actual TV show…
Review: Iron Man: Extremis
OnWhen people think of Marvel superheroes, usually the first ones that spring to mind are Spider-Man, Wolverine (or any of the high-profile X-Men), Captain America, the Incredible Hulk or the Punisher. Iron Man didn’t get the same kind of high-profile position until…
Review: The Bunny Boy
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
Review: Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps: From Maus to Now to Maus to Now
OnIt might be a little odd to have an Art Spiegelman book that doesn’t have a whole lot of comix, and mostly essays, but it works. Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps: From Maus to Now to Maus to Now is a catalog published…
Things That Are Neat: Ants!
OnAnts are super neat. There’s like a billion different varieties of ‘em, and they do all sorts of things. There are farmer ants who grow a fungus that they then eat, and there are ants that like do things with plants, and…
Review: MC Breath – The Mysterious Stranger
OnMC Breath is from Providence, Rhode Island, and his third album The Mysterious Stranger is a good introduction to his rapping and sampling skills — and not just because it’s available for free download. MC Breath has a great flow, but is…
Review: Anamanaguchi – Endless Fantasy
OnAnamanaguchi and I have a history. They are, officially, the Band I Keep Missing. Twice I went to one of their frequent local (Brooklyn and Manhattan) shows, and got there after they had played. Once I showed up and saw a whole…
Review: Man of Steel
On“What’s wrong with me, Mom?” Superman is an icon of comic books. Superhero comics, and arguably comics in general, are what they are today partly because of him. Had he not come along, comics as we know them would be something altogether…
Review: Making WET
OnI guess I have a soft-spot for weird, short-lived magazines. I’ve talked about how much I love RAW here before, and now I’ve just read Leonard Koren’s book Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing about, well, making WET: The Magazine of…
Review: The Idea Factory
OnBell Labs was awesome, and Jon Gertner’s new book The Idea Factory sets out to prove this simple fact. The Bell Laboratories (funded by AT&T when they were a government-sanctioned monopoly) was the place where vacuum tubes were improved and ultimately replaced…