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Lorde’s cover of Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I want to believe M Night Shyamalan was… read more Wayward Night

Kids React to Typewriters In the movie Kung Fu Panda, Po, a well-intentioned but bumbling dreamer, suddenly finds himself recruited… read more Po-gart in The Jade Dodo

Shirley Ellis doing the Name Game. Dear Nick and Elyse (and Lori): I saw your episode of Beyond the Tank…. read more Dear Nick and Elyse

WARNING! SPOILERS! Child of television. When I was told AJ Scudiere’s Under Dark Skies was a “supernatural crime thriller” and… read more Where Angel Should Have Gone

A friend once told me that Hesse’s Steppenwolf was a different book when read at 40 from when it was… read more The Duality and Deconstruction of James Junya Thompson

Admittedly, I should have read the description of Virunga more closely. All I saw on its Netflix banner was “Oscar… read more Virunga Ruined My Sunday

“Jaya Nepal” needs a “Careless Whisper” level indiscretion to make the inclusion of Adriana worthwhile. For the untravelled (like me),… read more Nepali Moksha

This is The Nightmare Before Christmas It would be unfair to say Christmas snuck up on me this year. It’s… read more The Xmas Grind

Remember the Thompson Twins’ “Doctor, Doctor?” WARNING SPOILERS! DISCLAIMER: I am not a Whovian, just a fan with a theory…. read more The Doctor Oswald

Before I begin writing about the Sleepy Hollow panel I attended at this year’s New York Comic Con, I’d like… read more I’m A Sleepyhead

I swear I heard TV Guide’s Damian Holbrook utter the word “atonement” during The Following panel he moderated at this… read more Emma Lives!

The 2013 New York Comic Con was my “lost Comic Con,” I was there in body but my exhausted spirit… read more The Lost Comic Con and the Missed Comic Con

There were two pieces of Bowie memorabilia I brought with me my freshman year of college and my first time… read more Bowie is Documentary

I tried to find a song or video the summed up the tone of Jacob Mendelsohn’s book without the religious… read more Jacob Mendelsohn All Knowing All Seeing in All My Goodbyes

Thanks to PBS, every English school boy I read in the first person sounds like Gian Sammarco’s Adrain Mole, the… read more Neil Gaiman’s Ocean At The End of the Lane

In “The Next Avengers” Ultron has taken over the world and it is up to the children of the original… read more Page of Ultron

TV ad using the Panasonic Orbitel TV set. In her depiction of the robots, Fiona Staples gives us a sort… read more Brian K Vaughan Wings and Horns

From The Flash Volume 2 Rogues Revolution: A gorilla priest explains how the Flash will save Gorilla City from ruination…. read more The Flash Rogues Revolution

The Spider-Man Noir cutscenes from Shattered Dimensions have a Sin City feel that makes it noir. I call it the… read more The Batmanification of Spider-Man

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1: Cosmic Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis My rating: 3 of 5 stars I borrowed… read more On Goodreads: Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Avengers