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Greetings from the blackest reaches of Ungoliant’s foetid etherwebs, it is I, Eugene Pendergrass, here again with a Middle-earth-sized missive aimed directly at you Matt Leacock who, frankly, should have known better. As everyone knows, my standards for ludographic adaptations […]

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Paint a couple hundred Warhammer miniatures, and you'll start to have some opinions on how a miniature should be PROPERLY painted. For myself, I've dialed in on two main tenets which guide all my miniature …

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Minor Key Music 94: Peer Rabin – So Much Tenderness
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It is difficult to exactly pin down the style of today's song. A melancholy ballad from Rainer Fassbinder's 1970 disaffected "noir" The American Soldier, it sounds nothing I can quite put my finger on. …

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5 More Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots
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In 2018 I did a post called "The Top 5 BEST Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots"--a tribute of sorts to a somewhat less rare than you would think trend in the black metal underground.  …

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The Raw Black Metal case for The Beach Boys’ Shortnin’ Bread
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I really don't know much about The Beach Boys, beyond a general distaste for "oldies." "Wouldn't it Be Nice" seems like a fine song, but I haven't even listened to the rest of Pet …

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My Favorite Movies 84 – Angel and the Badman
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Westerns have been featured on My Favorite Movies™ many times, so today's film making the cut despite being a fairly minor John Wayne western should be no real surprise. The fact that it's about …

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Despite my best efforts, I must admit that many of my musical tastes occasionally stray past the DISCO line in the sand that all metalheads are conditioned to never cross. False or not, Disco …

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