If you don't recognize it, the title is a quotation of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, a band which abjectly DID NOT suck in concert. I would like to keep on writing about thier show, but at this point it wouldn't be current. The live music highlights of my April in Dallas ...
Continue
[This serves as a kind of abstract book review of Nabokov's Lolita. If you haven't read it yet, this letter may delve too far into Spoilersville for your liking; however, I don't think that should stop you from reading either this letter or from reading Lolita. Some of the names ...
Continue
No, this is not the precursor to a topic discussion about political correctness. I'm talking about one thing and one thing only: PC games. That's right, I'm that guy. I'm the guy that flexes his muscles at being a self-proclaimed PC gamer. I like to flex that muscle. It makes ...
Continue
My whole life I’ve been avoiding MMOs. Not because they’re bad, but being the addiction-prone gamer I am, I figured getting involved in one would be the end of my real world life as I know it. Goodbye sunlight, goodbye relationships, goodbye job and social life. I’ve spent so long ...
Continue
What is is about television that insists that its viewer base is as stupid as their writers? I'm not talking about overly scientific data that might be misconstrued rather than interpreted as completely wrong; I'm talking about something as simple as every-day culture. Culture that you can witness with friends ...
Continue
I have been chatting with some of my friends about DC Universe Online. Like myself, most of them have not played a console MMO game. I played Final Fantasy XI for the PC and I still remember the horrible interface. DCUO has that in common with FFXI but I most ...
Continue
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650" caption="Bloody pirates, always stealing the latest version of Photoshop!"][/caption] No doubt by now you've heard about Crysis 2 being leaked recently. The sequel to the popular series by Crytek, Crysis 2 is slated to release on March 22 for North American audiences. A full working copy was ...
Continue
So Mass Effect 3 is slated to hit sometime this holiday season. If you're a fan like me, you probably have two or three distinct Shepard characters that you've been babysitting through the first and second game through various choices. In some ways, Mass Effect 2 seemed to be a ...
Continue
Congratulations to Cami Magnuson and mwebster76! Ladies, please check your email for the details. If I don't hear back from you by Febaruary 8, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST -- your prize is forfeit and I will send it to a new winner! [caption id="attachment_1673" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Handmade chocolate truffles waiting to ...
Continue
Music. It’s an amazing thing, isn’t it? It can affect our moods, our emotions, and even tell us a story when associated with background imagery. It can paint colours and stir nostalgia, and invoke certain involuntary twitching in the gluteus regions (not necessarily a bad thing, if you go to ...
Continue
