August 2010

Guilt Trip

27 August 2010

My buddy Jason’s persian cat has its own blog. Normally, I’d decry people writing in character as their pets (serially) as awful, but Bumble the cat’s unhinged jihadist persona is special and joyous. So, go read Infidel Nation if only to see the unfolding saga of a cat’s one-sided war with the SyFy channel.

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The Baths at Caracalla

26 August 2010

(image via daisypies) One of the later Romantics’ enduring themes is that nature always wins. This is, ultimately, the message of Shelley’s “Ozymandias” – that no matter how much temporal power and wealth you manage to amass, nature is going to tear it back down in the end. Keats and Shelley especially deal with this [...]

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My Soul To Take

25 August 2010

I’m hoping really hard for Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take. Craven is a masterful director and, his novel Fountain Society aside, has always been a solid writer, though his best work will probably stand as his collaboration with Kevin Williamson on the Scream saga (and he gets bonus points for co-writing Alex Aja’s remake [...]

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Attack of the Hipsters

23 August 2010

This weekend, I nearly died of hipsters. Luckily, I not awash in dismissive, smug conversations about Best Coast, Small Black, School of Seven Bells and Grizzly Bear and how Animal Collective and MGMT are ‘so over’.  It is probably good that music wasn’t a topic of conversation, because I’d have been taken down in a [...]

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An IM Conversation I Just Had [Excerpt]

23 August 2010

Woman: I just want he to know that we’ve done work in their industry before. Woman: (she to know) Me: Her to know? Woman: OK, LOL

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A Brief Anecdote #2

20 August 2010

So yesterday I made a comment about being biased against Dave Eggers in the comments of someone’s Google Reader item and BOOM – some total stranger swoops in like Batman and says “shut the fuck up Jeff.” Whoa, right? My first thought was that the commenter was Dave Eggers himself (who I’ve done a bit [...]

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Handy Instructions

19 August 2010

So I’m looking at this terrible website for work, and it’s just a collection of spam links in list format. And they look something like this (all actual anchor text from the site) PLAN A FUNERAL GET A DIVORCE BUY A MATTRESS START YOUR OWN PERSONAL JEWELRY BUSINESS I feel like this is a new [...]

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Comics I’m Buying This Week 08/18/2010

18 August 2010

Amazing Spider-Man #640 – I was prematurely set to hate this story with a burning fanboy rage, but last issue threw me for a loop. Atlas #4 – Sad that this series is ending after #5. But the remaining two issues should be a hell of a ride, and I’m kind of looking forward to [...]

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Expendables 2

18 August 2010

To really make a sequel to The Expendables work, you need to go back to the visceral premise that got people out to see the first one and either make it bigger or deliver on it better. If you’re going to make a sequel to The Expendables, you have to pit Sylvester Stallone’s team of [...]

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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Box Office

16 August 2010

I’d ask why geeks need so much damn validation, but I think we all know the answer to that is ‘because we never got any validation back when we were in high school’ or whatever. Or is it that we’ve begun to believe the asinine hype that we read in trash magazines and online about [...]

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