Category: Arts & Entertainment

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Initiative

Arts & Entertainment

Castle Ravenloft is Dungeons & Dragons for the rest of us. Assuming I count as “the rest of us.”
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Two Dental Mirrors and a Bottle of Expectorant

Movies

True Grit does for westerns what Miller’s Crossing did for gangster movies: make me begrudgingly like them.
Monday, December 27, 2010

Shameless

Arts & Entertainment, Disney, Television, The Internet

More insomnia means a curiously revealing and yet still dull year-end list.
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Joyful Noise

Music

Alternate post topics: favorite colors, this wacky dream I had, how I really need to get a Tumblr blog for this kind of stuff.
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Sour Milk

Movies, Personal

A writer suggests that the It Gets Better project is toothless, feel-good slacktivism, and I’m reluctantly forced to play the “you wouldn’t understand” card.
Monday, December 13, 2010

You’ll Only Need the Edge

Arts & Entertainment, The Internet

Is Yogi Bear the first movie ad campaign to successfully break through the Hipster Barrier?
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Doing it Right

Music

I’m only three-to-six years behind in hearing about The Go! Team.
Friday, October 15, 2010

Bros Before Women Like That

Music

Behind The Really Old Music.
Sunday, October 10, 2010

A Little Horse for a Little Monkey

Television, The Internet

Pro tip for MST3k fans whose VCRs broke
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Literacy 2010: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Books

My return to reading, more or less, starts with a book that kind of goes downhill after the title page.
Saturday, September 11, 2010

I Still Like Movies

Movies

Updating my list of favorite movies, because the internet needs to know.
Friday, September 10, 2010

Trash Talk

Movies

Responding to a Salon article taking pot shots at classic movies.