Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Twice the normal content on this blog post. Two books reviewed! Well, maybe not two complete critiques of two books, but at least one with mentions of another. Both deal with the theme of ‘hacking’. Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley and This is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole...

A review I could make about any movie starring Nicolas Cage would ultimately become a review of Nicolas Cage himself. Said review will almost always point to ‘excellent’ or possibly a mention as to just how Nicolas Cage was inhibited from delivering a solid performance. The man is a hell of an...

Although the two books being reviewed today are the direct subject, the comic book landscape in the early 90s will be the larger target. Within that already esoteric field, we are going to be talking about one particular design tendency among comic books in the early 90s; guns! Back then, it was...

If you have been reading the blog posts here, especially the last few dozen, you could see a common theme among the books being read and critiqued here. This has already been addressed (probably around the review of the DARPA book by Annie Jacobsen a month or so ago) and it will be addressed...

Although the actual subject of this review is the 2024 TV series production of Shogun, I will be mostly talking about the novel it is based upon. Before we get onto my ramblings about Japan and fiction, I’ll give a summary appraisal of the series (I’ve watched up to episode 8 of 10). The show is...

Today I’m going to be talking about the X-Men. The animated X-Men ‘97 is the catalyst that stirred me to reach into the deeper mythos of the X-Men franchise. I can already tell this will be a multi-part blog entry so let's get down to brass tacks about The Uncanny X-Men before we talk about how...