Sheldon and I were talking about “ironic cover songs.” You know, the song you’d never expect a band to cover. Keep in mind that The Awful Lot is a ’70’s riff heavy rock/punk band. We were talking, certain songs came up, and this was one of them. This is me thinking of Albany, Georgia, 1984.
The show was strange for me. Good, but strange. I will have a more detailed report later, but the pertinent facts are: Half the books I packed in my suitcase (it took me two hours to do it right) were missing when I opened my suitcase at the show. I brought 80 copies of CAT…
Okay, let me make myself perfectly clear. Then, I’m dropping it. Alan Moore: Those words, “fascism” and “anarchy,” occur nowhere in the film. It’s been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country. In my original story there had been a limited nuclear war, which…
1. Grab the nearest book.2. Open the book to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is…
Now that it’s out on DVD, I thought I’d spend a moment making a comment about the Wachowski Brothers’ version of V for Vendetta. And, just to remind Mr. Wasta, no, I did not like it. Chief reason? The change of theme. The betrayal of one of Mr. Alan Moore’s most intriguing and difficult characters,…
Stephen Colbert reveals the #1 threat in America… BEARS! And, “I don’t believe in Evolution, but I’m sure BEARS! do.” And finally, a threat to BEARS!: 8-year old girls.
My brother crapdaddy hates the Camarilla. I’m not to fond of it, either, but I like playing with my friends and they like playing in the Camarilla, so if I want to play with my friends, I’m kind of stuck. So, instead of making a laundry list of what’s wrong with the Camarilla club, I’ve…
Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, the long-awaited and long-promised Orphans album, collecting over thirty years of rarities, b-sides and special appearances (along with some surprises, we’re told). Three discs full of Tom Waits madness. I officially cannot wait.
You know, it’s just an urban myth that the guy who created Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, was a kinky old fellow getting his rocks off writing comic books for kids with vague hints of the S&M he was into with his wife and their “open relationship” mistress. The urban myth is that he was…