All I’m saying is, once Walter shaves off that beard, the resemblance to Julia Child becomes a lot more obvious.
I don’t remember ever being actually worried about a nuclear war.
This may be a sign that I was simply a very unaware, optimistic child, of course. But I really don’t remember any of the Cold War, Oh-My-God-We’re-About-To-Die paranoia from the 1980s that I often read about as if I wasn’t alive during that time; I [...]
(Because at least part of this weekend was spent writing the Onomatoepia newsletter, here’s the essay from last month’s, as way of apology.)
It should be noted, even though the world collectively forgot to be shocked by the news at the time, that Spider-Man: Turn Out The Dark (also known as “That Spider-Man Musical With The [...]
I’ve been sick and snowed under with work. Normal service will resume tomorrow, but in the meantime, here’s a little reminder of the 1990s to tide you over.
I remember, when I was in primary school - I can never remember what the American name for that is: Elementary, maybe? - being given mini-essays to write all the time, to turn us all into amazing writers and/or to make us realize that everything in the world was interesting and wonderful and, in the [...]
Elastica were one of those bands that somehow transcended Britpop despite being right there in the center of the whole thing. Maybe it’s because “Stutter,” their first single, came out before Britpop really got going, back when the music papers were calling it “New Wave of New Wave” - I remember hearing it on the [...]
Of all the parts of my former jobs that I don’t miss, conference calls would be pretty far up on the list. I’m someone who still finds speakerphone an entirely uncomfortable experience - You’re just talking into thin air, people! - so the idea of doing conference calls somehow always freaked me out; we’d be [...]
It says a lot, perhaps, about where I came from that I got more excited finding out that there’s a new Big Star retrospective, complete with demos and alternate mixes of the songs from their first three (in other words, real) albums, coming out this month than I did about all of the Beatles reissues.
(For [...]
Looking at that Amazing Spider-Man cover I put up yesterday reminded me that, once upon a time, I used to have a crush on John Romita’s version of Mary Jane Watson. To be fair, Stan’s dialogue had a lot to do with it; while it was constantly stilted, unrealistic and embarrassingly obviously the work of [...]
A combination of deadlines and braindeadedness mean that I’m stuck working and having no time to blog as usual today… But instead of not posting anything, I decided to share this mindbending image with you and ask someone who’s read this comic - What the hell is Mary Jane actually doing here? I mean, I [...]
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