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Stuff I Like

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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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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A Brief Anecdote

12 August 2010

One time I was walking out of the Blockbuster Video in Edwardsville, PA, carrying a movie (I don’t remember which movie) and I got into my car. There was a boy, maybe ten maybe twelve, coming up the strip mall sidewalk toward me, past the chinese buffet, past the Little Caesar’s, past the Radio Shack [...]

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Four Days With The Nook

12 August 2010

I splurged in commemoration of my birth and bought a nook from my local Barnes & Noble. I’ve had it for four days. As a gadget, it feels good in my hand, is responsive, has a nice minimalistic design and a good user interface and its e-ink screen is incredibly crisp and readable. Because his [...]

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If I Ran Hollywood

11 August 2010

Julia Roberts stars as a plucky heroine who travels abroad to find herself but finds food and guys who are sooo naked in the bargain. But just as she thinks her life is turned around, she finds herself at the mercy of a suave, eastern European serial killer. It’s like Under the Tuscan Sun meets [...]

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Treinta y Dos

11 August 2010

I am one year older than I was when last I posted. Thirty-one was alright. I fell in love. Stopping right there, that’s a good year. Despite being self-published, I managed to tell a comic book story I could put my name on, with the help of my talented friends. I took on new job [...]

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Sic Semper [Darth] Tyranus

5 August 2010

In the context of the Prequel Trilogy, Count Dooku seems like a bit of a chump. Dooku is subverted and initiated into the Sith somewhere in the ten year gap between Episode I and Episode II, and all you can really think about when you see him is that Anakin is supposed to kill him [...]

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