Westerns, at their hearts, are stories about heroes. The hero defeats the villains and saves the honest townsfolk using, not just his wits, but also his fists and gun. While the town doctor might be a brave, kind, smart man, in the […]
I shall dispense with the pleasantries today except for a quick introduction. So, hello Wizards of the Coast, I'm your worst nightmare--you might remember me from such rants as "An open letter to Wizards of the …
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say? Do I really get that much …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in September. Stats Movies watched - 24 Movies that were new to me - 19 Movies about dudes falling in love with their daughters - 2 Monthly Masterpieces - Invasion of the …
So it's not something I normally talk about on such a google searcheable site--even though I seem to have no problems filling my webpage full of Lord of the Rings fanfiction and essays about Magic the Gathering. Anyway, aside from LARPing, this thing …
I've had issues with "cute" dialog in movies for a while. I almost turned off Juno after ten minutes and even the dialog from someone like Oscar Wilde can begin to annoy me. So I have some possibly …
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say? Do I really get that much …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August. Stats Movies watched - 41 Movies that were new to me - 33 New record for movies watched in a single day - 7 Monthly Masterpieces - …
While most people can describe the general details of the Polish and French campaigns in broad strokes (Germany blitzkrieged through Poland...then they did it to France), the Balkan campaign is most often thought of as simply "the blunder that …
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 …