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Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. My storied past …
Welcome back to Internet Meme Monday! What is a meme you say? Well, as I understand it, a meme is similar to a gene, except instead of passing on genetic information it passes on cultural …
Everyone has probably heard at one point or another that they resemble some celebrity. Well, the question of which celebrity I most resemble has become a bit more important lately when I learned of the …
Everyone knows that I was a particularly vehement opponent of the Lord of the Rings movies. My thoughts on adaptations are well publicized and they basically amount to the unyielding law that it is unconscionable to …
The "gangster film" is a true American creation. There were of course many early foreign films with elements of "crime" in them (Feuillade's Les Vampires, or Lang's Dr. Mabuse to name just a few), but the …
So, I watched the usual random assortment of movies over my Christmas break. Looking back, I realized that 8 of them naturally fell into pairs, both thematically and in that one was an old standard …
From the pages of Goth Blog comes the spinoff everyone has been clamoring for: JOCK Blog! That’s right, you will now periodically be subjected to the wacky adventures of everyone’s favorite jock older brother, Chet! …
Garth Ennis is one of my favorite comic book writers. But after reading his entire runs of Hitman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Punisher, Punisher Max, Punisher Max Presents Barracuda (max?), War Stories, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, …
The fantasy fiction community was rocked last month when previously unreleased sections of The Lord of the Rings were discovered. This "grail" of a literary find amounted to a lost chapter, "A Wind from the …
While it may seem astounding that some people still believe The Lord of the Rings is just a book, this is perhaps only to be expected when you consider the wealth of misinformation that is …