So many things conspiring to make life difficult today…no point in going into details, I just wanted to let out a little virtual scream of frustration at the whole unfortunate business. So, gah! Done. To update: today’s complaint has largely to do with the circuitous paths one is required to take to navigate and eventually […]

There are several Greatest Hits packages in this edition; quickie releases designed to quickly get new fans up to speed or replace aging cassette tapes, or just to make money to pay off a divorce settlement or wring the last bit of blood from the stone after the band calls it quits. They have their […]

I was recently introduced to the concept of “”blogging as a spiritual practice.”” Not “”spiritual”” in the sense of either my youthful experience (angels, not thinking too hard about god, veiled right-wing propaganda) or “”celebrity”” spirituality as effectively satirized in the form of David St. Hubbins or Terry & Laurie Bohner on film, but “”spiritual”” […]

Being the devoted music fan that she is, Amanda Marcotte put this piece up about the 20th anniversary of the release of Nevermind coming up next month. That record, nor any of Nirvana’s output ever really resonated with me the way it did with a lot of my peers, especially those a few years younger […]

Underneath all the Smurfs and Cowboys & Aliens brouhaha, there was a another film that came out last weekend that got a lot of attention in certain corners, despite opening on only eight screens in the US. That movie? Attack The Block, a small British sci-fi/adventure film about a group of inner-city kids defending their […]

I vaguely remember hearing a few rumblings in my preferred corners of the internet regarding this essay by comedian-actor-geek Patton Oswalt about the simultaneous mainstreaming and death of nerd culture when it was published last December, though never managed to get around to it until very recently. Most of the reaction to the essay was […]

Tonight, we pour a flagon of mead out in honor of Plinq, the elven hunter, who died valiantly under the maul of the bewitched dwarven king he was trying to save. His arrows were true, and his wilderness tracking skills peerless, and his heart trusting. Sometimes too trusting, but that was just part of his […]