I had, for the longest time, this snobbery against “Best Of”s and “Greatest Hits” collections for bands and musicians; it was probably in some part brought on by the whole Britpop thing of, if you were really into a band, then you bought the singles and cared about the B-sides (Well, CD extra tracks, but [...]
If there was one comic that I could, hand on heart, say was an underappreciated work of genius deserving of a wider audience, it’d be Nick Abadzis’ Hugo Tate. See? That confused look on your face? That’s how underappreciated it is; you’ve never even heard of it.
(The above, of course, doesn’t apply to those of [...]
So, somewhere around the holidays, the Oregonian newspaper started being delivered to our house. We didn’t ask for it, we didn’t pay for it, but every morning without fail, it’s lying outside our front door waiting for me to take it in and read it over breakfast. Originally, it was something that seemed confusing and [...]
It occurs to me that I have never actually told you all about my Stan Lee Says He Is My Father dream. I know what that sounds like, when I call it that - some crazy dream about the co-creator of the Marvel Universe turned even-more-shameless charlatan having produced not only seminal runs on comics [...]
With all the buzz surrounding Gorillaz’ new album, Plastic Beach - buzz that I shamelessly added to over at io9 - it should probably come as no surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of their old stuff (as well as their new; that NPR stream of Plastic Beach reveals that it’s another great [...]
I can still remember the day this was taken, and the way everything seemed to be turned up too loud. We’d just broken up, literally the day before, and it hadn’t really sunk in yet (Well, for me, at least); we’d both agreed to help a friend out by being models for photo reference she [...]
For years, this man was my partner in crime and the kick up the ass when I needed it. Like many of the important people in my life, I really don’t remember my first meeting with Andy at all; it’s all lost in vague “Maybe I met him then? I’m not sure”s but as I [...]
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