I know you want your edgy, violent media product to sound suitably grim and epic. But from now on, please consider these terms off-limits: Redemption Prophecy Legacy Salvation Fate Dead Legend Trinity Dark Age Creed Tale Blood Doom Resurrection If that scuttles your plan to release Blood Prophecy: Legacy of Dark Redemption, here are some [...]
What a surprise—Michael Moorcock didn’t like Star Wars either when it came out: This sort of implicit paternalism is seen in high relief in the currently popular Star Wars series which also presents a somewhat disturbing anti-rationalism in its quasi-religious ‘Force’ which unites the Jedi Knights (are we back to Wellsian ‘samurai’ again?) and upon [...]
I don’t go to many concerts, but oh, how many times I’ve wanted to write a variant of this brilliant letter upon leaving the movie theater. My particular curse is not the annoying music fan, but the Guy Who Narrates Everything That Happens in the Movie to his girlfriend/wife, a tragic woman who apparently is [...]
I am sure that those of you who follow politics have heard about Mitt Romney’s incredibly significant and newsworthy gaffe. When asked to name his favorite book, he cited Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Cue a whole lot of snickering and mocking overanalysis by every blogger and pundit in the universe–all of whom no [...]
It’s a good thing nothing important is going on in the world today: May the gods have mercy on anyone who clicked on that headline. Gaze too long into the abyss…
Today, our car froze shut. Not just jiggle-the-lock-a-little-and-it’ll-be-fine frozen. I’m talking ninth-circle-of-hell frozen. Struggling through the bone-cutting wind to purchase something involving de-icing technology from the farther-away-than-I-remembered local Walmart, and listening to my good-intentioned wife insist that the level of cold we were experiencing was not really all that cold compared to winters in Vladivostok, [...]
So, I can’t decide which of these ideas is actually the Worst Idea Ever Conceived: This? …or this? I think this race might be too close to call.
My fellow Grand Rapids residents, if you’re like me, you have often wondered if it is possible to design a worse and more dangerous intersection than that at the 96/196/Beltline. Yes, I’m referring to the Intersection of Certain Death, where cars traveling at 70+ mph are given approximately four seconds to swerve across multiple lanes [...]
