Archive for September, 2008
Michael Bay directed The Rock, Armageddon, Transformers, and other travesties. Good beer-and-popcorn movies if you like rapid jumpcuts and stuff blowing up, but certainly nothing which could be construed as quality cinema. If he ever wins an award for directing,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t watch medical dramas (I have to draw the line somewhere), but when I used to, it seemed like whenever a patient was in an arrest, the doctor would ask for ten ccs of something and inject it right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Heroes Season Three starts tonight. If you haven’t seen it, the first two seasons are now available on DVD (at least in the U.S. – I don’t know about international). It is a brilliant show about what it might be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 18th of September marked the 2-year anniversary of the excellent Brick House webcomic, so I made a special commemorative strip to mark the occasion. If you don’t read Chris Doyle’s highly entertaining strip, you should.
Cyndi Lauper (she’s so unusual!) released a song where she claimed “Money changes everything.” In Tyrant’s case, it doesn’t change the fact that he’s still a jerk and a lousy parent. I imagine the Tiny-Tyrant relationship to be much like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patricide is a venerable tradition throughout literary history, dating back at least to the era of the Greeks when Oedipus slew his father (and later boinked his mother in a story that was at least as disturbing as the film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…