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Manowar Lyrics: An In-depth Analysis
May 18, 2018

Manowar is like any other metal band…only more so.  From their album covers to the lyrics they sing, Manowar oozes so much metal that SOME have claimed they veer into parodic territory.  Thus, when it comes to lyrics, for those […]

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Mini Board Game Reviews 3.5 – Indoor Survival Summit Special
May 9, 2018

Every spring, I gather with a group of friends in a cabin by the Lake of the Ozarks for our annual "Indoor Survival Summit"--where we stay indoors for 3 days straight, subsisting entirely on a …

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Memes I Missed 18: American Chopper Argument
April 20, 2018

  As I've said before, this feature is named Memes I Missed due to the fact that by the time a meme is popular enough to be featured on here, pretty much everyone will agree that …

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Isley and Brian liveblog the new Judas Priest
April 5, 2018

Recently, Brian and I decided to check out the new Judas Priest album, Firepower, and chat about our thoughts over Gchat as we listened.  After we'd finished, I realized this might make a good feature …

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Mini Board Game Reviews 3
April 3, 2018

Here are some quick reviews of all the games I've been playing lately. I will periodically move these titles down to the full A-Z list found HERE.  I am using the following Board Game Geek …

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Brilliant Board Games: UNO
April 1, 2018

This is an April Fool's post, unless you are in some sort of bizzare, bad board game based Die Hard With a Vengeance situation, under no circumstances should you ever play something as random and …

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Memes I Missed 17: Object Labeling with Classic Film Screenshots
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I don't care how hip to the ways of the youths you might be, it's almost impossible to catch a meme on the uptick.  No matter how quickly you jump on a new meme, you'll …

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My Favorite Movies 76: Fast Five (Justin Lin, 2011)
February 28, 2018

The Fast and Furious franchise has evolved over the last two decades from a testosterone-soaked fetishization of small-scale street racing to a testosterone-soaked fetishization of the joys of punching torpedoes into tanks. And, while the …

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Benny Interprets Heavy Metal Cover Art 1: Rainbow – Rising
February 20, 2018

In this new feature, I will take classic heavy metal album covers (objectively classic, not the subjective stuff I make fun of in my other heavy metal album cover art feature), and see how they …

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Minor Key Music 77: Mick Softley – Time Machine
February 19, 2018

It's no secret that I love me some folk music.  My first exposure to folk music was pretty much every black metal fan's first exposure to folk music--via neofolk music.  After bands like Death in …

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