From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Friday Cover Songs – The Worst Covers Ever

29 January 2010

Some of you still think cover songs are bad. I imagine these covers are part of the reason why.
This take on Europe’s “The Final Countdown” may be the most terrible thing ever perpetrated on state fairs.  I find it more amusing than I should.

A close second to the above is this battle of the bands [...]

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UGC Week: Tunes

28 January 2010

Bill says, “Recommend bands we should listen to and give us reasons why we should.”
I think by dint of listening to a lot of music, a mistaken notion that I am smart about music exists among a lot of my friends. I don’t pretend to be; I just like what I like and I don’t [...]

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UGC Week – Iambic Pentameter

27 January 2010

Caroline wants to know, “Do you know any poems by heart?  Are there ones you were forced to memorize/ones you decided to pick up on your own?  If you do have these floating around in your head, what do you use them for?
If the memorization thing doesn’t apply, tell me about a poem you wish [...]

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UGC Week: Respectfully, No

27 January 2010

Perry demands: “Describe various acquaintances as comic book characters without explicitly saying who each is supposed to be, leaving it as an exercise for the reader to determine the secret identity of each.”
This is fun for nobody. An interesting mental exercise, to be sure, but one that is preloaded with divisiveness.
First of all, there’s the [...]

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UGC Week: Blackest Night and Seige

26 January 2010

Bill says, “Blog about comics. Like, compare/contrast Siege and Blackest Night.”
I generally try to avoid the nerdiest of nerdy comic stuff here, saving it for Alert Nerd, but I do what my readership commands. Because I care.
I have, in fact, written about Blackest Night in a meta kind of way, a few times before. [...]

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UGC Week – Mr. Gatevackes

26 January 2010

More content of the user-generated variety ensues!
Bill says: “Write a post about me!” So here goes that….
William Gatevackes is a garrulous drunk and an irascible curmudgeon of a gambler. He is a cheat and a liar and by that barometer of character he is the finest man I have ever known.
I met William Gatevackes [...]

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UGC Week – Gerard

25 January 2010

It’s User-Generated Content Week – a week where I do nothing but post about the stuff YOU asked for.
Today’s topic comes from C: “Critique all your Gerard-given nicknames”
Once, my girlfriend convinced her friend Gerard that my name was Fernando. He believed this for twenty minutes, believed it, I am told, with an almost white-hot intensity. [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Bowie’s In Space

22 January 2010

Oh snap! It’s Friday Cover Songs. Two. Weeks. In. A. Row.
This week, we’ve got some David Bowie on the menu.
Seu Jorge – Life On Mars
M. Ward – Let’s Dance
TV On The Radio – Heroes
The Last Town Chorus – Modern Love
I don’t know that I’d list Bowie in that sentimental, all-time favorites list that I keep [...]

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User-Generated Content Week

21 January 2010

One of the things that make blogs blogs, according to many social media ‘thought leaders’, is the comments section – the arena of interplay between the author and the reader. Well, through the magic of comments, I’m giving the reader a chance to steer while I put on a tie or send a really important [...]

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Twenty-More

20 January 2010

So, after hours three and four, which I just watched, I’ve determined that I am basically twelve years old. I realized this after laughing uproariously when Farad approached Eurotrash and Son and said, “I need to see the rods.”
Some observations:
There is going to be a reckoning between Chloe and Dana. I predict the end result [...]

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