If you’ve read past blogs from me here or on Myspace, you’ve heard me rant about my favorite rock band on earth, R.E.M. Flat out, their last album, AROUND THE SUN, sucked. And the two before that weren’t great shakes either, not in comparison to their heyday in the 1980s and early 90s. Their last … Continue reading
A Nice Hard Slap – What Are You Drawing? I don’t know if you know this or care about this, but over the past while I’ve been slowly amassing a lot of comic book artwork for the site both through the somewhat legitimate titles I’m working on with pros and little tinkerings I’m doing on … Continue reading
A Nice Hard Slap – “It Doesn’t Exist” Retail folks, be on guard. I’m coming after you. There’s a very small-minded view for folks who are in one retail gig for a long time. They get tunnel vision. Their longtime status as a member of COMPANY X has them so trained as to what their … Continue reading
A Nice Hard Slap – Dane Cook Might Have an Ego. In the past I was a fan of Dane Cook, right up until after Retaliation came out. I was so sure he was the real deal that I actually had a phone meeting with his management and another major film producer about potential projects, … Continue reading
I’ve been in the market for arcade machines over the past few months. Below are some of the machines that I’m perusing. Look below and reflect on your love for the stand-up or tabletop Coin-Op machine. The last pic is of the 1962 AMi Continental Jukebox. I dug the layout ever since I saw it … Continue reading
When Dick Cheney visited Saudi Arabia to talk about oil and the Middle East in general with King Abdullah, the Doomsday Clock ticked one minute closer to midnight. Cheney and the neocon cadre have long set their sights on Iran and have worked every angle to reinforce their position. In spite of IAEA data proving … Continue reading
Of course, not to be confused with the run-of-the-mill drunk driving, the phenomena of drunk internetting can nonetheless be nearly as dangerous as plowing into a busload of nuns while blitzed out of your mind on Jack and Coke. This is proof of law or public awareness not quite catching up with technology. You still … Continue reading
Hookers. Call girls. Women of the night. Texas ditch ferrets. Prostitutes go by many colorful names, but their clients have only one: John. People usually assume that “John” is short for John Doe, but it’s actually a clever nod to John Quincy Adams’ famed reverence for the world’s oldest profession:“Alphabetically, the three things I am … Continue reading
Du collège dessus, j’ai dû prendre plusieurs cours de langue. Pour quelque raison, elle semble comme si beaucoup de d’autres a dû ne jamais tracasser avec la langue étrangère. De l’âge de 11, j’ai dû traiter des cours de perfectionnement de grec, d’hébreu, de latin, Français et Allemand. Naturellement, ma vie de semi-finale-adult ne m’a … Continue reading
So I just got done watching a grindhouse flick with a friend. For my birthday a few months ago the guy bought me one of those cheapo Grindhouse movie sets, you know- one of those dvd sets that boasts 20 movies on a handful of discs. The quality’s universally horrible, some looking they were transferred … Continue reading