So, I have to brag. After years of listening to Lee sigh and say, “I wish we could play Region 2 DVDs,” I did five minutes of research and discovered our l33t DVD player (one of the last Really Good Deals Lee picked up before he left Best Buy) has a cheat code that lets […]
Not having a cell phone, text messages are somewhat like a foreign language to me. Click here to turn your messages into text lingo (Lingo 2 Word). Via BD, the text 10 commandments: I can has commandments? I r ur godxxor who has max pwnage. U can has no udder godxxorz b4 mes. U can
Dave’s doing a 24-hour marathon blogging session for BLOGATHON on COMICS REVIEWS, starting very, very soon…now, this is a guy with some far-ranging taste in comics, everything from your superhero-addict fix to your deep and meaningful. Go check out his work throughout the day, pledge if that’s your pleasure, and leave him a comment or
John the Revelator. “Seven lies/multiplied by seven/multiplied by seven again…” Interesting. This morning, there were articles all over the ‘net about how the number of deaths in the Iraq war was decreasing, but the terrorists were learning from their mistakes and becoming more accurate in their attacks. Now, they’re gone — or at least, I
by Audrey Wood and Mark Teague. One of the best children’s picture books I’ve read in a long time: Pa Brindle blew the cobwebs off the trunk, then threw it open — and all the cats in the neighborhood opened one eye…. “I’ll be good this time,” Pa promised. “One big piece of Sweet Dream
“If I don’t come back, tell mother I love her.” “Your mother’s dead.” “Then I’ll tell her myself.” The trailer for the Coen Brothers’ movie, No Country for Old Men. Serial killer obsessed with chance in the middle of nowhere…brrr… (via Ectoplasmosis.)
Aether Emporium lists “The Steampunk Essentials,” including books, movies, and comics (I’ve read all but one of the comics, anyway). Oooooh, Phillip Reeve is the Mortal Engines guy. Yup. Him.
Click! On goes the lightbulb… Dude. Everyone in Pokemon is not just characters in a video game, but characters whose in-game setting is, itself, a video game. Why do these kids’ parents let them run around all the time? Why are all the Nurse Joys identical? Why do the Pokemons level? How, in fact, do
The main author of the Doc Savage stories tells his secrets for writing a 6000-word pulp story that cannot fail to sell. At this point, it might help to recall that action should do something besides advance the hero over the scenery. Suppose the hero has learned the dastards of villains have seized somebody named
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