WTF? KISS Potato Heads

And just like that, civilization ended.

Dan Brown’s ‘The Lost Symbol’: Opportunity Lost

So…
I just finished reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.  If you loved, or even just liked The Da Vinci Code…reread it, it was a way better book.
This time out Robert Langdon is called to Washington DC to give a speech at the behest of an old friend.  When he gets there, he finds out the [...]

Bellhedz: Taco Bell Goes All Urban-y Up In There

Urban Vinyl.  Designer Vinyl. Art Toys.
Whatever they’re called anymore, I love ‘em.
Didn’t always.  They grew on me.  Kind of a spillover from my admiration for graffiti.  Not the guys who write ‘Suck It!’ on a wall.  They’re pinheads.  I’m a fan of the guys doing full-blown kick-ass I dare you to paint over these murals [...]

Sarah Palin: Go Gently Into That Good Nighto

So, it’s the holiday weekend and me and my in-laws are sitting around watching tv and we hear ‘…with 18 months to go in her term…’ accompanied by a photo of The Barracudinator or whatever they’re calling Gov. Palin these days.
“What was that?”
“Don’t know, try another station.”
We flip around and come to:
“Sarah Palin’s stunning resignation.  [...]

Glenn Beck: Tool of the Apocalypse

Glenn Beck is the antichrist.
Let me back up a second.
Fox News is a strange animal.  Their evening news program with Shepard Smith tends to be pretty ‘fair and balanced’.  Like, for real and not code for ‘toxic, right wing, conspiratorial bullshit’.  If they’d reign in their reporters and producers a little bit more, they’d be [...]

Star Trek: Split Infinitives and Beyond!

I’m a long time Trek fan.
More than casual, way short of hardcore.  I know some words in Klingon, a couple of Rules of Acquisition, and that you never wear a red shirt on a road trip.   Everything I learned about Federation history is from the TV shows and movies, not books or comics.   I loved [...]

Review: Josh Bazell’s ‘Beat the Reaper’

So, I’m in Border’s the weekend before last, looking for something to buy because they sent me a coupon and I feel obliged. I happen across a table of books labeled ‘Books You Might Have Missed’ and, lo and behold, it is full of books I’ve never read or wanted to read, like Glenn [...]

What the F**k, Rob?

Smash??
What the fuck, Rob?  Was Dale Keown’s Pitt too far removed from the original source material?  Are you in that big of a hurry to get sued…
…AGAIN!?
I’ll be upfront, in case it isn’t apparent,  I’m not a Liefeld fan.  Never have been.   Those tiny little ankles, the shoulder pads, the glowing eyes (when his characters [...]

Watchmen: The Late Review

I hated Watchmen.
Okay, some of you just spit soda pop all over your monitors. While we wait for you guys to clean up, let me warn the rest of you readers that there are spoilers aplenty in the following review. I wrote this piece assuming that you’ve already read the book yourself and found this [...]

Vegas: A Secret History

In the last 5 years, I’ve been to Vegas three times and learned a great deal about this fabulous city from tour guides, cabbies and the like. If you ever get the chance to talk to a guy on the bus at two in the morning, or maybe drink with hookers at the Peppermill [...]