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Things I Hate

Creator Loyalty In A Down Economy

1 September 2010

Last week (which seems like a lifetime ago online), video game publisher THQ filled gamers with delicious anger, restricting multiplayer access for some wrestling video game or another to first-run buyers only via a single-use code.* The angry gamers’ argument seems to be: “We are your customers and you can’t treat us like this!” THQ’s [...]

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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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The 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con Kingdom Comics Panel

22 July 2010

This is an article I wrote for Newsarama. They never ran the article, I assume because of how completely vapid this particular panel was.  Or because I omitted the ten minute rant that Ahmet Zappa went on about Thumbelina, the smallest horse in the world. “Kingdom Comics is about sucking the cute out of everything.” [...]

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The Passage

22 July 2010

I’ve been trying to write about The Passage for awhile, but when I try, I just end up saying “Oh, it’s pretty good,” or something.  It’s an epic book – it spans nearly a century, deals with an apocalyptic event that decimates the U.S. population, and combines eerie supernatural elements with a hard scientific rationale [...]

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You People Are Double Hypocrites

8 July 2010

I thought I’d had all of the ridiculous games on Facebook blocked from my feed. No Mafia Party, no Crochet Wars, no Farmville, no Zombie Paper Route or whatever the fuck it is that people think is fun. It was a comforting existence. I’ve lived my life without playing any of these games and I [...]

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Author’s Notes From My Follow-Up to the Imaginary Space Werewolf Romance Classic

11 June 2010

[NOTE: Make up an improbable-sounding name; "Acapella" sounds too much like 'Bella'] doesn’t fit in at her new school because she’s simply too perfect. Nobody else understands her deep and unabiding angst over this except for Edwin Culpeper. Edwin is a 4,000 year old mummy. Who exhibits none of the traditional traits of mummydom, save [...]

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