One Nation, Under Puzzles
Guest Post by Glenn Dallas Hello Forces of Geek! My name is Glenn Dallas, and among other endeavors, I write for the PuzzleNation Blog, a site dedicated to all things puzzly. I'm a sci-fi geek, a Star...
View ArticleThe Norwegian Duo Known as YLVIS Kicks The Speak-and-Spell Up A Notch With...
I'm going to be honest with you, before yesterday I didn't know who the hell Ylvis was (although, to be fair, they are from Norway and the U.S is notoriously ethnocentric in their importing of culture...
View ArticlePerpetually Persistent: Richard Williams and His Vision
Back in 1980, the animator Joe Oriolo (producer of the TV Felix the Cat cartoons and subsequent owner of the character) vented to historian Will Friedwald about how he lost the option to produce...
View ArticleDUBSTEP Dancing to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'
Marquese Scott is an amazing dancer whose willingness to contort his body in ways not known to man is worth seeing again and again. And in this performance to Michael Jackson's Thriller, he does more...
View ArticleTOP 5 TV Towns
If fictional TV towns were real, we’d all probably move to one in a heartbeat. For most of us, our hometowns just pale in comparison. Or does yours have a demon-friendly karaoke bar too? Some TV towns...
View ArticleContest! Win BBC America's 'WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN' Set on DVD!
BBC Home Entertainment takes a walk on the wild side with two DVDs of actor and wildlife enthusiast, Dominic Monaghan’s (Lost, Lord of the Rings), hit BBC AMERICA series Wild Things with Dominic...
View ArticleA COMPANY MAN (review)
Review by Dean Galanis The feature writing and directing debut from Sang-yoon Lim, A COMPANY MAN is a rather impressive action/noir/corporate satire. It stars Ji-seob So as a loyal worker for a company...
View ArticleTHE WORLD OF LISA FRANK: The Days of Hyper-Stylized Unicorns and Rainbows Are...
Back in the age of neon, you weren't really a "girl" unless you slathered yourself in Lisa Frank stickers, had a Lisa Frank notebook or ate from a Lisa Frank Lunchbox that was adorned with hearts,...
View ArticleBook Report: Agatha Christie Returns, TV Looks To The Bookshelf For Ideas,...
Kindle MatchBook and Clonefiles A new chapter in the print book and ebook world that has them working together for a change.10 New Fall Shows Based on Books Ten new shows will be starting this fall...
View ArticleBREAKING BAD: "To'hajiilee" S5E13 (review)
By Seth Levi It’s all about the brand recognition — lessons imparted by three characters this episode. On a high level it’s about presenting an image, sometimes a false one; this episode was about...
View ArticleLOW WINTER SUN: “Cake on the Way” S1E5 (review)
By Kate McKendryAfter Joe Gedde’s (Lennie James) connection of Billy’s death to Brendan McCann’s death during the final scenes of episode 4, Joe and Frank Agnew (Mark Strong) work to come up with a...
View ArticleDEXTER: "Goodbye Miami" S8E10 (review)
By Caitlyn Thompson This episode was painful to watch. I’m not disappointed anymore, just pissed. The actors have no scripts to work with so everyone is phoning it in, delivering lines with the same...
View ArticleALL IN A LATHER: The Ritual Of Straight Razor Shaving Revealed!
The author as a young shaver. It's something I choose to do everyday, and yet, it is also something that everyday fills me with reluctance, dread and contempt—shaving my face. There once was a time of...
View ArticleOwn A Chunk of the CHELYABINSK METEORITE! You Know, It Was The Meteor That...
Back in February of this year a little bit of space debris entered our atmosphere in the form of a fucking asteroid going 60 times the speed of sound before exploding in the sky over Chelyabinsk,...
View ArticleThe Pull List: FOREVER EVIL #1, CODENAME ACTION #1, BALTIMORE: THE INFERNAL...
Check out what I checked out this week. Whether the comics are inspiring or disappointing, I read them all. Welcome to The Pull List. And, as always...Spoilers ahead!Superior Spider-Man #17 (Pick of...
View ArticleARCHER'S Dish Whiskey Soap Will Get Your Dishes Drunk As Well As Squeaky Clean
Archer is a real man's company specializing in real man stuff like room deodorizers scented like a European Sports Car, a Distillery or a Hunting Lodge. But now this highly testosterone-laden company...
View ArticleMUSIC VIDEO MONDAY: You're On Fire- They Might Be Giants
I'm going to make this a brief post so that I can throw the vinyl edition of TMBG's new album Nanobots (which I received this weekend) on my turntable and enjoy it as only an under-employed...
View ArticleCAMPBELL'S SOUP Is Heading In The Keurig Direction...Great, So Now We Have...
Perhaps it's just me, but never have I stared deeply at my Keurig coffee maker and thought, "You know what would be great? If this thing made soup." Then again, I rarely make eye contact with any of...
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