Viral Anti-Marketing at Work: The New Star Wars Director Said Some Things. Get Mad, Nerds.

Anyone who’s still a Star Wars fan after the last 25 years of garbage product deserves this. Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is attached to direct an upcoming “Star Wars” film, making her the first woman to helm a film in the iconic franchise—but right-wing critics are blasting the movie as “woke” after Obaid-Chinoy said it’s… Read More Viral Anti-Marketing at Work: The New Star Wars Director Said Some Things. Get Mad, Nerds.

4 Jan 2024 AndrewLeave a comment

Luke Combs Wins a Lawsuit He didn’t Know He was In, Ends up giving money to the Defendant

The beast is hungry. Luke Combs took to social media Wednesday morning to say that he was “sick to my stomach” after waking up to learn that he had won a $250,000 judgment against a Florida woman who’d earned $380 selling 18 handmade drink tumblers with his likeness on them. The country superstar said he was… Read More Luke Combs Wins a Lawsuit He didn’t Know He was In, Ends up giving money to the Defendant

18 Dec 2023 Andrew2 Comments

Things That Annoy Me About Scott Pilgrim

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is one of those movies that I mildly disliked upon first viewing, but has come to grow on me. It is based on a Canadian comic book series that I have never read. I recently watched the first four episodes of the new animated series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which… Read More Things That Annoy Me About Scott Pilgrim

3 Dec 2023 AndrewLeave a comment

Looney Tunes, Fandom, and physical vs. Streaming

It’s become a commonplace that streaming services are treacherous. You put your faith in them to provide you with content, and they pull it according to bean-counter whim and puritanical outrage. Physical media is the only way to preserve culture! Even directors are getting in the act: Christopher Nolan recently made headlines when he humorously urged fans… Read More Looney Tunes, Fandom, and physical vs. Streaming

28 Nov 2023 AndrewLeave a comment

The Laws of Fantasy Magic and Other Nerderies

I have never read anything by Brandon Sanderson. Not for any particular reason; I’m just not a very diligent reader of fantasy. I like certain authors, and dislike others. My taste runs to either high fantasy (Tolkein), or pulp fantasy (Brust). The mid-level stuff has always bored me. I think the problem lies in the… Read More The Laws of Fantasy Magic and Other Nerderies

27 Nov 202327 Nov 2023 Andrew1 Comment

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is a Dense hard Slog Through Mud

My experience of this film, which I just went to see, perfectly mirror’s my experience with Oppenheimer: with the earlier film, I was bored with the idea and impressed with the result. For Napoleon, I was excited that it was made, and just spend two and half hours sitting through it, wishing I had done… Read More Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is a Dense hard Slog Through Mud

22 Nov 2023 AndrewLeave a comment

The Weird History of No Wave

No Wave was a bunch of avant-garders in late 70’s-early 80’s NYC who decided that Punk Rock wasn’t obnoxious enough for them, so they made abrasive atonal music that no one cares about. Nobody even knows what it is. In 2023 most folk barely remember The White Stripes. You have to be a art-house historian,… Read More The Weird History of No Wave

17 Nov 202317 Nov 2023 AndrewLeave a comment

Remember, Remember the Dorks of November

Bluebird of Bitterness lays out the forgotten history of Guy Fawkes: In light of this history, Fawkes is a strange choice to be the face of hacker activists like Anonymous and other anarchist movements. We’ve all seen that stupid mask, the one that looks like Gomez Adams just did it with Morticia. Fawkes, after all, was… Read More Remember, Remember the Dorks of November

8 Nov 20238 Nov 2023 AndrewLeave a comment

Voyages of the Dread: The Tygg And Drea adventures now on Amazon

Behold. This is a collection of 5 stories, previously published on Unnamed Journal. The product description on Amazon goes as follows: Tygg is a Barbarian. Drea is a Witch. They sail the seas in a ship of freed slaves and dead men, hunting for magical artefacts. They encounter magical mysteries, cruel enemies, and occasional allies.… Read More Voyages of the Dread: The Tygg And Drea adventures now on Amazon

3 Nov 2023 Andrew1 Comment

The Meme Self-Regenerates: A New Old Song from the Beatles

Perfectly, the track is called “Now and Then”: “Now and Then” has a similar provenance as “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love,” the other two “new” Beatles songs to have been released since 1970: All are rough Lennon home demos recorded during the late 1970s and provided by his wife Yoko Ono in 1994 for the… Read More The Meme Self-Regenerates: A New Old Song from the Beatles

2 Nov 2023 AndrewLeave a comment