Forever the Bastard
Kit Harington, known to most as Jon Snow, was at a Leafs game recently, where he was known to even the producers as Jon Snow. This is a real graphic they put up onscreen, and…
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The Original Bro-tastic Xbox Live Instructional Video
People always call Xbox the “bro” gaming system, and brings to mind frat guys playing Call of Duty while chugging Natty Ice. But was it the frat boys themselves that started that stereotype, or was…
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Ready to Read 14,000 Words About Why Petyr Baelish is a Genius?
Yesterday, during my A Song of Ice and Fire Mysteries post (spoilers!), longtime reader Postal shared a link that took a solid chunk out of my day. It’s a 14,000 word essay on a Game…
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What The Office Taught Me About Life and Love
The series finale of The Office airs tonight. It’s hard to believe really. Through all the jokes about cast members leaving and the quality declining, this final season has actually been rather excellent, and it’s…
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5 Harryhausen Creations That Kicked My Childhood’s Ass
How do you properly pay tribute to a man whose work defines your childhood? On top of that, how do you write an interesting article about someone so influential that there is almost nothing left…
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Community Development – How One Show’s Characters Inspired the Others’
In honor of Arrested Development’s triumphant return, here’s a look at how the show influenced another under-watched yet critically acclaimed show, Community. The broad-strokes parallels are obvious: both shows are extremely self-referential and leaned heavily…
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I’ll Take Mine Hard-boiled: Mike Hammer, X, and The Return of Dime Novel Prose
Whoa. What a month! Though the great Mickey Spillane crossed over to the other side a few years back, the equally laudable Max Allan Collins has kept private eye Mike Hammer alive for a whole…
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BioShock Infinicat
I don’t know what possessed someone to redesign the cast of BioShock Infinite as cats, but I’m sure as hell glad they did. I love the internet, I really do. That’s really all there is…
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Living in the Future: The Lamborghini Egoista
Fun fact: A long, long time ago, one of my first internet writing gigs was working for an automotive website. I used to be REALLY into cars, and was thinking about a career in automotive…