Subtle Bluntness

Patrick Swayze finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer.  Honestly, I never thought he’d live this long given how nasty a disease that is, but the fact that he made it through a whole season of The Beast (a really damn good show, by the way) and lived this long is pretty impressive.  You can’t say he [...]

RIP, David Carradine.  From Caine to Bill to Frankenstein (and even as Coley in Macon County Jail), you were awesome. “It’s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It’s a marathon. You can’t quit; even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn’t. Look, I had absolute faith [...]

Who was Rudy Ray Moore?  Well, I’ll let the man himself tell you. You can read my tribute at that link up there, but I don’t think anyone can pay homage to Dolemite moreso than the human blaxploitation parody (and my favorite rapper of all time), Ol’ Dirty Bastard.  Take it away, Big Baby Jesus:

I wrote the following for the fifth anniversary of the September 11, and reposted it last year for the sixth anniversary. I figure I’ll run it again, especially since it got a comment from someone who undoubtedly knew Douglas Farnum a hell of a lot better than I ever did. I’m glad I could do [...]

This is kind of a melancholy FGF, because this is my favorite local band, I’ve seen them like 20 times, and their last show is September 13th. It’s sad when things like this happen, but at least I’ll know to get down to Headliners and catch their last performance, no matter what. (They played on [...]

I wrote up a brief, rushed obituary of Gary Gygax over at Den of Geek, seeing as how he passed away today at age 69. I’m tired, so I don’t think it’s the best work I could’ve done, but it’s one of those situations where a great man and key lynchpin in geek culture must [...]

I’ve already made my serious commentary on Heath Ledger, but I just can’t hold back anymore. So for those of you who are as sick as I am, there’s gonna be some funny ahead. If you’re not as sick as I am, or can’t appreciate wholly inappropriate jokes, by all means go here and enjoy [...]

Author’s Note: I wrote this last year for the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and I figured I may as well repost it here on this, the sixth anniversary. Just to show I’m not completely ignorant of the profound nature of what today means for thousands of people throughout the world. Cheers, kids. DC [...]

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I report the demise of the vaunted tabloid publication, The Weekly World News. When I was a kid, I’d spent a lot of days and nights over at my grandmother’s house. As anyone with a grandparent can tell you, the spoiling of young Ron was [...]