Damage
Secrets of the Wild Child: The story of a girl who spent the first thirteen years of her life locked in a room.
Castle Crashers: X-Box Live Arcade keeps spewing out the hits! Castle Crashers is one of the few games that has made me laugh out loud with its weirdness and visual [...]
Saturday, August 30th, 2008 | Comments Off
Chefs are Fucking Crazy
My two favorite food shows have one thing in common. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations has a disclaimer after every commercial break that warns that the show is for mature audiences only. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is rated TV-MA. Why? Because the chefs on these shows are fucking crazy.
Ramsay [...]
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | Comments Off
Kong
Donkey Kong. Its objective is clear to any human being that sees it: Propel your mustache-faced man up the ladders to save the lady. An ape will throw barrels at you in an attempt to foil you. It is encoded in our DNA that apes are dangerous creatures, especially when [...]
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Comments Off
No More Subtlety
So I noticed that Best Buy has a new slogan: “You, Happier.” Come in here, buy something, and you will be happier. It’s sweet yet ominous.
It takes a lot of balls to make this your corporate slogan. Imagine the irate father of two who screams his head off at a [...]
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Comments Off
Notes on the Olympics / Flawless White
What I love about America in the Olympics: Whenever a foreign nation fields a team sport, all their players are the same ethnicity. But whenever America fields a team, our players are from all over the color spectrum.
That’s awesome.
One thing I like to say about diversity is that it creates [...]
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | Comments Off