You’ll be hearing a lot this week about the Challenger disater, which hits its 20th anniversary tomorrow. But today is also the anniversary of another space disaster, that of Apollo 1. Three people (Command Pilot Virgil I. Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee) died when a spark turned the 100% oxygen [...]
Whoa. So I just finished House of Leaves, by one Mark Z. Danielewski. It was craaazy and pretty awesome. It’s a (postmodern) horror book, mostly, and that’s where you’d find it in the bookstore. To give you a brief synopsis: it’s about a guy who discovers that the interior of his house is 3/4 of [...]
Well, it has been a busy week for Harmonix. In addition to the apparently excellent Guitar Hero, they’ve come out with the also pretty good Karaoke Revolution Party. As you may have heard, ihd went out and bought this the other day. It is pretty good. More stuff under the fold. Including pictures of the [...]
White people love electric guitar. Fact. Not only do we love it, those of us who do not play a guitar of any sort desperately wish — above all else — that we could in fact “thrash” on an “axe.” Something magical happens when white people (myself included) hear a particularly awesome riff on the [...]
A couple days ago I netflix’d The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I had been looking forward to watching the movie for quite a while because 1) the Hitchhiker books are pretty amazing, and 2) it had the guy from the office in it. Well let me just say: don’t watch this movie. Hey, I [...]
In an effort to catch up to my wife in the snarky post title game I settled with the above title. I know I know, she rocks way harder than I ever could. My title, although less clever than my wife on a bad day, is accurate. Last night havoc and I went to the [...]
So I downloaded and watched Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. For those of you who don’t religiously follow the ins and outs of the Final Fantasy series – no, lifestyle, FF7AC is the movie sequel to the video game Final Fantasy VII, which itself was almost but not really the sequel to Final Fantasies 1, [...]
Lots of Alchemy going around lately. For those of you who don’t know, and who can perform analogies, alchemy is to chemistry as astrology is to astromomy. Or, to pick a more timely comparison, as intelligent design is to evolution, or as Miss Cleo is to the Weather Channel. That sort of thing.
Nick at Nite Records’ compilation album “I Am Woman” is a great record which will take you on a walk down memory lane while simultaneously bringing out your inner Goddess and making you want to get up and dance with your fellow.
My friend Michael died on April 10 of this year. This came as quite a shock to me as I saw him on April 12. Before I could get my hopes up about actually having a zombie for a friend, I realized I was in an art gallery and the dearly departed friend was only [...]
The movie Bubba Ho-tep, much like its title character’s costume, is cobbled together from the bits of other, more complete ensembles. It struggles to entertain and fails to make sense. Spoilers follow.