Monthly Archives: March 2005

Door Opens Things

Detail from the cover of a comic-book adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s Neverwhere, due out in June from DC/Vertigo. If you’ve read the book or seen the BBC mini-series, you know who the girl on the cover is … and what she is doing. If not, you should educate yourself. And for the really curious, Newsarama

Goodbye, Mama Feelgood

This weekend, at the age of 56, early funk diva Lyn Collins aka Mama Feelgood aka The Female Preacher died at her home in Pasadena. Her contribution to modern music, most of it sparked by beats and samples from a single song recorded in 1972, is immense. You might think you’ve never heard her …

The Price of Fame

… is measured out in Pennies, apparently. The Good News. Tycho and Gabe, the boys at Penny Arcade, are going to be featured in an upcoming interview at JIVE. This interview will also appear in the next print issue. This issue will be the one taken to E3 in May, to be read by tens

A Tao of Winning

“It’s been a tradition in America that if you have a majority, you win.” – Sen. Pete Domenici, R-NM, about the simple majority vote needed to provisionally approve drilling for oil in ANWR. It should be noted that “majority” has a slightly more nuanced (and official) definition than just humming a few bars of “We

A Tao of Gaming

“Because video games are unnecessary, they have to be stimulating.” – Keita Takahashi, Creator, Katamari Damacy

Oxfording

Went Oxfording with Nikki on Saturday. As I told her then, you really have to smile about a woman who will not only tolerate my occasional need to visit a comic book shop, but actually takes an interest in these four-color distractions. One series in particular caught her eye (Catwoman: When in Rome) and we

Let Me See You Step To My Bodyguard

And I will be your long lost pal. Really. Josh Console mashes Paul Simon with Ciera and Missy Elliott … with better than expected results. In other news, I found yet another reason to get a cameraphone. I had to venture out this morning, just after the crack of nine. We needed milk. So I

Hello Darkness …

… my old friend. I’m using PowerPoint today. For the first time in years. Fear it.

Know Your Terms

This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Therefore, I must be a blogger. If I had any doubt, I need only turn to the community of which I am a part. By the extent to which we have allowed our personal thoughts and opinions to become public knowledge,

Cruel To Be

The weblog is becoming a powerful tool, one that is leaving the realm of personal recapitulation and self expression for the greener pastures of promotional commerce. So why shouldn’t the AJC have one? Or two? Or how ever many they want? None of it matters to me. But when it was pointed out to me