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 were both at [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
[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 and references will obviously not [ Read More ]
Categories: Book Reviews
You want to know what happens when there’s a criminal investigation that involves gaming, especially online gaming, and information needs to be obtained? They go straight to the company. And guess what? Most of the time they just hand over the info and cooperate with law enforcement.
Categories: Culture, Gaming, Social Commentary
Yes its a little late to be jumping on the New Year’s band wagon, but we had to wait for all of the worst celebrity fashion disasters to come in.. and some of us were hung over. Without further ado- here’s the list you’ve been waiting from the go-to site* for fashion advice: Slightly Relevant’s [ Read More ]
Categories: Culture, Fashion, Featured, Miscellany, Social Commentary, Weird Shit
You want to know what has been replicated in a production line in flashy colors for the past thirty years? Gamers would say: Mario. Parents would say: a child’s toy. Perhaps that is why few make the distinction between the two, because we as a gamer culture in America certainly don’t strive to set the bar much higher from where video game developers have sat for a decade now.
Having trouble getting it up lately? Can’t stay hard as long as you used to? Well you might have Erectile Dysfunction, but I may just be looking to the men first because of the male-centric world we live in. Maybe the reason isn’t the man, as we of this chauvinistic society like to believe. Maybe [ Read More ]
Categories: Culture, Featured, Miscellany
Long, long ago, a book named The Lord of the Rings was turned into a movie that featured no one with dark skin. And no one cared. The next film to be made was The Hobbit, and casting director Naz “Nazgul” Humphreys couldn’t help but inject his personal evil into the movie and…continue with the [ Read More ]
[TRIGGER WARNING! Don't want to be accused of being insensitive, now do we?] Last week at dinner, I was telling Arcturas and Rika about my first encounter with Vir. It was on a blog Arcturas wrote about a game in Japan that involved rape. In the comments, people were arguing about why there are so [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Commentary, Weekly Weigh-In
When you’re truly unprepared for Halloween, yet too proud to go buy a cheap generic costume.. the only thing left to do is fuck with people.
Categories: Culture
Living in a big, spread out city means that long commutes are nothing out of the ordinary for me. Years ago I discovered a great strategy for minimizing road rage and making myself actually look forward to hour-long commutes to and from work: audio books. I’ve listened to all of the Harry Potter books multiple [ Read More ]
Categories: Social Commentary
