I’m still coming to terms with the idea that our president-elect is a man with no political or military experience that would have been charitably described as a buffoon less than two years ago by even the people who now support him. The fact that he has filled his cabinet with white supremacists, climate change … Continue reading
Well, now you know. 63rd Street was an unprecedented event and I’d like to thank all those who had a hand in the making of it. So…thanks, me. And I’d like to apologize to everyone who was subjected to it. It seems like a lot has happened out in the “real” world since the last … Continue reading
It’s been a good few days to be a geek as two storied franchises finally finally finally released some decent trailers and lifted the veil of secrecy just a bit. We start with Star Trek Into Darkness, the long-awaited follow-up to the J.J. Abrams-helmed reboot. This being a J.J. Abrams thing, the lid has been … Continue reading
Our favorite villains from 1980s cartoons were serious badasses. They didn’t give a shit about anyone, their own henchmen included. And it was a damn good thing their plans were all ludicrous and destined-to-fail, because these bastards were the very personification of pure evil. But 30 years later, audiences need to feel as though they … Continue reading
I feel like since it’s been a good couple of months since I last mentioned Transformers, it’s safe to bring up the subject again. And not even because Mark Wahlberg was recently cast in the Transformers 4 movie due out in 2014. Though that does make me a little bit hopeful. He’s certainly a better … Continue reading
In the mid-2000s, this classified ad exploded across the internet, creating yet another meme for the pile with the lolcats and Trollface. Of course, the ad IS in fact a joke, written not by this world’s Dr. Emmett Brown, but by the buddy of the editor of Backwoods Home Magazine. The surprising thing is, … Continue reading
So tonight, kids in cute costumes are out gathering candy while adults in slutty outfits are elsewhere, gathering candy of an entirely different sort. Me, I’m at home, typing this. I have nowhere to go, so I never got a costume together, and I never got a costume together, so I have nowhere to go. … Continue reading
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My name is Alex. I have pop culture feelings. Updates every Friday (usually). Slight tendency to edit as I go.
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