Subtle Bluntness

I’m planning a wander as we speak. After having screwed around and missed my window for hotel rooms at the convention itself, I decided it was high time to go to Dragon*Con anyway.  Thanks to the largesse of some friends who don’t read my blog despite multiple link-filled emails, I’ll have a place to stay [...]

First, I’ll give you the good sound quality version. Now I’ll give you the version from “Punk in London”, which reveals X-Ray Spex lead singer Poly Styrene isn’t just a cuddly little singing mutt, but a full-blown twitching, shambling force of nature.  There’s a reason that little Anglo-Somalian girl put The Fear into Johnny Rotten.  [...]

Well, I saw The Goods this weekend.  Basically, it’s another starmaking vehicle for Jeremy Piven (who already had one in the underrated PCU) where he plays a guy who… well, let’s be honest here.  Jeremy Piven is basically playing Jeremy Piven here.  Or some version of Jeremy Piven, at least.  Here’s the review, for those [...]

“Hey, Johnny Park!” doesn’t get a lot of respect since it landed on The Colour and the Shape.  That’s “Everlong”‘s album.  Also, “Monkey Wrench,” “Walking After You,” “My Hero,” and (to a lesser extent) “See You.”  Still, it’s kind of grown on me lately and has become one of my favorite Foo tracks.  When I [...]

That LOLdog works on two levels because A) nom nom nom it are my birthday and B) the English Bulldog is the mascot of my high school, where I shall be spending part of my birthday Saturday in the course of celebrating my 10-year high school reunion.  I’m turning 28; not quite the memorable 30th, [...]

When looking for a Feel Good Friday theme today, my first thoughts went to my reunion.  Hell, 10 years ago about this time I was starting my freshman year of college.  I had a quick look at the charts, then came to realize that 1999 was an absolutely horrible year for music.  I mean, it [...]

Just when I thought I’d seen the gayest thing ever, along comes showtunes-singing Charles Nelson Reilly in a banana costume.  Moments later, that horrible image is topped by the very same Banana Nelson Reilly drawing the most Freudian “banana” in a “hat” in phallic symbol history. If that’s not nightmare fuel, then I’ve never seen [...]

I wrote a nice little post about the Great Flood of 2009, in which Louisville received a crazy amount of rainfall in a short time, over at PopFi.  I included some handy dandy cellular phone camera pictures of the raging flood waters as they drowned various cars, but for space purposes I chopped the images [...]

Gonna do something a little different today, gang.  I wrote a nice review of Funny People for Den of Geek (number one at the box office, and number one in our hearts), but not only was it a little long, it was a little inappropriate for the audience involved.  Mostly because people couldn’t care less [...]