One of the difficulties of approaching art of any kind is learning to drop your prejudices when encountering it. This is true regardless of what class of art you’re talking about. It’s very easy to dismiss something you haven’t read as without value, because if it had value, you’d have already appreciated it, right?… Read More Of Conan and Carver
Pursuant to Comic Book Post #5. Max Landis, of Chronicle, American Ultra, and Red Letter Media fame, parodies the killing and unkilling of Superman in the famous 1993 DC cash-grab. It’s funny, and he makes a salient point at the end about ruining death in comic books (NSFW due to language). Philosophically speaking, death and life… Read More Comic Book Post 5.1: The Death and Return of Superman
Being the continuance of a series abandoned… I never read any of D.C.’s New 52, because I objected to it on principle. The whole point of comic books is that they provide the balance of new tales as part of a coninuity. I get that managing said continuity can be a challenge. But re-booting is… Read More Comic Book Post #5
This is old, but if you’re sick of the way “nerd culture” has been inflated into a Seriously Important Thing, Red Letter Media is Awesome. NSFW for some crude language. There’s a second episode: You might not get this if you don’t hang around on YouTube, but they’ve been making fun of the hysterical… Read More Nerd Culture Abused
This click-baity article at the Federalist: “Why Does Disney Hate Boys So Much?” way overstates its case. Contra the article, male Disney characters have not gotten lamer lately. As the father of two little girls, and as a boy who had a sister during the “Disney Renaissance”, I’ve seen my share of Princess movies. And… Read More A Sober and Logical Analysis of Disney Princes, or No, Disney Doesn’t Hate Boys
I had this long blog post about Statistical Clustering and Artists Die, but Art Survives written in response to Carrie Fisher’s demise called Why I Don’t Get Sad Over Dead Celebrities. I was letting it lie to give it an editorial once-over before I posted it. Here’s the part that got Overtaken By Events: Is… Read More That’ll Do, 2016. That’ll Do.
The news has taken up space in my brain and I’m working on finishing a short for the 7th issue of Unnamed Journal, but I just had to post this. (h/t Ace of Spades). (Click to enlarge. Do it!) It’s a map of Arda, Tolkein’s world. The Middle Earth you know from The Hobbit and Lord of… Read More A Complete Map of Tolkein’s World
Which is to say, fisking his liner notes, which are irritating and pretentions: the latest post over at Every. Damn. CD. Original text in italic, my responses in Bold. Notes on the Compositions Included Herein AKA, I’M A MUSICIAN AND A GENIUS AND I LIKE FISH STICKS IN MY MOUTH. 1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy…(3:27) Was… Read More Fisking Frank Zappa, Because Why Not?
First, the same chap who cheekily questioned Aragorn’s claim to the throne of Gondor lists the Most Metal Deaths in Middle-Earth. From the Feanor entry: While Ecthelion, Glorfindel, and Gandalf all bit the dust fighting individual Balrogs, Fëanor died in battle with a platoon of them. Not only that, his spirit was so fierce it incinerated… Read More And now, some Tolkien Nerdery…
Oh, Existential Comics, mashing up Jurassic Park with Ancient Greece. Does he look like Kermit? He looks like Kermit. Does he debate the nature of flies? He tries to. Does his incessant demand for ontological clarity come off as preventing other people from getting a word in edgewise? Yup. It’s just too good to pass… Read More Frog Socrates, Everybody
