Interview: Alexx Calise
OnMost people just work on one album at a time — Alexx Calise, on the other hand, has two albums due to release this February. One is her second solo album, and the other is the debut release of her band Sound…
Review: Hard Luck Stories
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase CD] I’ve been listening to the digital version of Ike Reilly’s new album Hard Luck Stories for a while now, and I’ve been really digging it; and it turns out there’s going to be a real, physical version…
Book Review: Columbine
On[Purchase Book] As “Weird Al” Yankovic said, “Everything you know is wrong”. Admittedly, he wasn’t talking about Columbine — that’d be a little bit of a downer. He got that from the Firesign Theatre, though they weren’t talking about that either; a…
Things That Are Neat: Television!
OnImage via Wikipedia Sometimes, people take for granted a lot of things; they’ve been around them so much they’re used to them and don’t see the magic in them and may even grow to hate them; TV seems to be square in…
Review – Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
OnErotic re-imaginings of classic fairy tales have been done before – Anne Rice’s Beauty series is an extreme example, Moore and Gebbie’s Lost Girls a graphic one. Often they retain a hint of adolescence or address issues of adolescent sexuality, which follows…
Review: Carried By The Storm
On[Purchase Album] Bronz is one of those bands that never got the recognition it deserved. It was formed in the late ’70s as part of the British New Wave Heavy Metal sound, though its members referred to it themselves as “light arena…
Manga Review: Junk Force
On[Purchase Vol. 1, Vol. 2,Vol. 3] ComicsOne was a distributor of licensed English-language manga whose company went belly-up, with all of their catalogue going to Dr. Master Publications. Unfortunately, much of said catalogue went out of print. Fortunately, the titles still available…
Kassel’s Cooking Corner: A Peck of Pickled Peppers
OnHonestly, I don’t even know how much a “peck” is. I could consult the oracle known as teh interwebs, I suppose, but the instant gratification of knowing the definition of a unit of measure I’ve known about my whole life but…
Book Review: Nixonland
On[Purchase Book] It’s very odd when you find a book that’s about 800 pages, and find it’s too short. Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America is an in depth look at Nixon’s political career from…
Game Review: Scribblenauts
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase DS Game] Scribblenauts is an absolutely brilliant idea trapped in a merely OK game — luckily, the idea is so strong, it’s still worth recommending. The idea — which, again, is just outstanding — is that you’re a…