On the first weekend of the year, I surrounded myself with thousands of sweaty nerds at MAGfest XI. I should have done a write-up about MAG much sooner than this, as my first time attending came just 15 days after the inaugural post of Protozoic, back in late 2004.
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Interview — Jennifer Juniper Stratford, director of The Multinauts
Back when I was living in NJ working a string of bad temp jobs, my roommate and I made it a habit to go through Comcast On Demand on a ritualistic basis and watch all the Something Weird videos, any music video we’d not heard of, all the Misty Mundae movies, and anything we’d deemed… Read more »
For now we see through a glass, darkly — Part 3
“A Taste of Madness!” From the first moment I saw the splash page I was hooked. And then the story. To sum up, Super-Skrull and Skragg try to drive Mar-Vell nuts by appearing as his defeated, dead enemies. Of course, Captain Marvel (with the aid of his alter-ego, eternal sidekick Rick Jones) beat the baddies… Read more »
Dwarf Fortress
There are games that are considered complete and final upon shipping but, in this internet age, I’ve largely been drawn to games of another classification, ones in a state of perpetual development. I go in, completely unrealistically, seeing games like this not so much for how they are, but for how they could be with… Read more »
For now we see through a glass, darkly (Part I)
Back in the halcyon days of yore of my misspent youth when life was simple (see IRON CURTAIN), one of the few haunts where I sought solace from the dreaded linked list, relational database, homogeneous diff-e-Qs (as opposed to heterogeneous diff-e-Qs which are currently lobbying for heterogeneous diff-e-Q marriage) was The Closet of Comics. I… Read more »
Falco’s Greatest Hits
Parental Advisory – This review was written at 2:55 AM. And while the album was being listened to after sitting on the shelf for two months. A) Classic 80’s techno pop backed by incomprehensible German lyrics. Examples – Amadeus – I always thought he was singing “Rock me I’m a danish” – as in pastry.… Read more »
HOLY BAT-TOON!
There’s a not-so-new cartoon gracing the glass teat on Cartoon Network. “Batman: The Brave and The Bold” is based on the old comic book of the same name. The Caped Crusader teams up with a different hero from the DC universe each week to fight for the forces of goodness and niceness. The tone is… Read more »
WHY I WON’T SEE THE WOLVERINE MOVIE (AND OTHER RANDOM RANTS)
X-Men 2 stunk. X-Men 3 stunk on ice. And I HATE prequels. The legacy of George Lucas and Jar Jar Binks lives on. Another piece of ammo is the merchandising campaign. One piece of brummagem junk that is being pushed on kids (at $14.99 to $23.99 a pop) is the Wolverine Electronic Battle Claw (wow!).… Read more »
Dragonball: Evolution, I’m siding with creationists on this one…
Like many other adults by chronological age only, I would really like to see a live action version of this: But, when I heard that 20th Century Fox Studios was going to try, I didn’t have high expectations. I thought maybe it would suck and yet would still be kind of entertaining. I was wrong.… Read more »
WATCHMEN: There must be some kind of way out of here
Marshall McLuhan said, “The medium is the message.” If that’s true, in the case of Watchmen the message should be, “stick to your medium.” Because if you haven’t read the book, don’t waste your time. If you’re reading this I’m not going to belabor the backstories of the graphic novel and the movie directed by… Read more »
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