From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Persuasive Advertising

30 June 2009

Although Jim Henson’s Wilkins Coffee ads are probably most notable for the unmistakable traces of The Muppet Show that appear in their DNA, the thing that I always appreciated about them was the wanton puppet violence.
In an era where Crispin Porter + Bogusky can make The King work as a viable campaign for Burger King, [...]

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Silent Vapidity

29 June 2009

Does it bother you that so many of my recent posts are predicated on time spent at bars?  Do you want me to go back to posting ranty musings on pop culture garbage?  That maybe I should blog about each episode of Daisy of Love or spend more time discussing Batman?
I hope not, because this [...]

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Peer Into My Shattered Psyche

28 June 2009

Considering that my reliance on making references to movies and songs to communicate meaningfully with other human beings makes me a shorter, less metallic version of the live-action Transformers version of Bumblebee, it’s no surprise that Flickchart is the most powerful timesink to exert its force over me since Peggle and/or Bejeweled.  The site (which [...]

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A Follow-Up To My Sarcastic Post About Lifestreaming

27 June 2009

Earlier, I conducted a quick poll as to whether or not I should make brownies.
The support for this initiative was unanimous.

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Decide My Life, Anonymous Internet User

26 June 2009

So, I keep hearing from various corners about how blogging is dying, and about how microupdates and aggregation and lifecasting/lifestreaming are the new big things.
I’m not content with the new big things.  I want to think about what’s next, to pre-empt it and grasp it in my grasping hands.  That is to say that I [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Like A Boss

26 June 2009

I have eschewed the obvious choice today (you can find a cover of “Thriller” here), and chosen a fine selection of Bruce Springsteen covers.  In absentia – the Cowboy Junkies’ “Thunder Road” cover.  I didn’t want to post more than one, and it was a tough between that and Badly Drawn Boy’s and, well, that’s [...]

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

25 June 2009

Everybody has been asking me if I’ve seen Transformers yet.  I haven’t.
I have not seen Wolverine.  I still have not seen The Spirit.  As I intimated back in December, I am done with blockbuster, geek-pandering movies that I am supposed to “have to see,” that I know are going to be disappointments.  I mean, a [...]

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Space Werewolves

22 June 2009

One of the things I’m proudest about in my years and years of blogging, the thing by which I will define my human worth, was my ability to show up on the first page of Google for the query ‘Space Werewolves.’  The culprit behind that happy accident is this paragraph in a post from 2008 [...]

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The Weekend, Thus Far

21 June 2009

I drove down to Philly yesterday to see what might be the last gasp of Wizard World Philadelphia.  With the show consistently being scheduled on the same weekend as Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC, Wizard’s recent acquisition of Big Apple Con, and its position already sandwiched between New York at the beginning of the con [...]

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Equal Time

19 June 2009

It’s Cover Songs Friday, yes, but I wanted to take a second to shamelessly promote a band that does not perform cover songs (mostly; the band apparently has a Heart cover out there in ether that I would quite enjoy hearing).
Local rockers Fighting Zero have a new album out, and it’s available for free download [...]

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