OK, so I had the bright idea to do a search for the Pogues on You Tube. Now that I’ve lost a well spent hour or so watching wonderful videos, I thought I’d share a couple. First up, an old version of Sally MacLennane On a side note, the woman in this vid, playing bass, [...]
So, last month I dropped a couple of hints about a top secret project that I’ve been working on. Well, today’s the day of the grand unveiling. Ladies and Gentlemen. Geeks of all fandoms. I give you… Stop Standing Still!!! For those that may be curious, Stop Standing Still is a site that I’ve set [...]
Several weeks ago Z pointed Church and I to an article over at Something Awful, titled The 8 Most Awful Minorities. Specifically, this page which talks about nerdcore. To quote, The genre amounts to a bunch of people aping that MC Hawking joke site from like 1998, but that hasn’t stopped Internet losers from falling [...]
Red Shipley has passed. Don’t know who Red Shipley is? Then you don’t live in the DC area or central VA. And if you do, then you’re not a fan of old time country or bluegrass. Shipley was the host of Stained Glass Bluegrass a show devoted to gospel country/bluegrass music, that ran on the [...]
So, someone is turning The Watchmen into a movie. Honestly, I think this is a bad idea. Now I’m not motivated by the usual knee jerk reactionism that they’ll ‘ruin it’. I just don’t see the point of doing it. I don’t see anyway to adapt something like The Watchmen into a film, and keep [...]