Monday Mix-Up: A Real-Life Calvin & Hobbes
A real-life [[[Calvin & Hobbes]]]. Awwww…. Via One Big Photo.
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Watch ‘Honest Trailers: “The Avengers”‘
In the wake of the home video release of Marvel’s [[[The Avengers]]], we think it’s safe to show this now…
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Deficit Hawkman!
Tony Isabella, we have your follow up for The Shadow War of Hawkman: Hawkman’s long lost brother has shown up….by night he is mild mannered Paul Ryan, but whenever he gets close to a microphone, a campaign stop or the Capitol Building he metamorphoses into Deficit Hawkman! Yes! Deficit Hawkman wants to cut services to…
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REVIEW: “Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain” by A. Lee Martinez
Martinez has been writing humorous SF novels for close to a decade now, all of which have looked like fun to me, but Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain is the first one I managed to actually read. It’s the SFnal story of a world-conquering squid from Neptune (a super-genius squid from Neptune) in a…
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It’s Writing, Captain, But Not As We Know It
The annual running of the bad prose has come again, with the winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest announced Monday. (Yes, that page is apparently official, even though it looks like something that crawled out of 1996, and not before dying, either.) In honor of the “dark and stormy night” feller, the judges of the…
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Saturday Morning Cat-toons: The Cat Of Steel and The Dark Kit
Because, gosh darn it, we want web traffic and we’ve been told there’s nothing better to get traffic than cute cat videos: Wait– we’re supposed to run cute cat videos on Fridays? We thought we were aware of all Internet traditions, but this is news to us. Perhaps we should take down the… aw, look…
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Because we’d like to get a laugh from a superhero movie this week…
…we present to you this note, as a minor coda to Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers. And if you think Nick Fury was ticked off, you should have seen Agent Coulson was. (Hat tip: http://scifisurplus.com.)
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What Makes Martha Thomases Ridiculously Happy?
I’m writing this just back from the dentist, from which a friend had to pick me up because the dentist gave me drugs. I couldn’t be trusted to get myself home, even though that involved taking an elevator to the building entrance and getting a cab. And my dentist may have had a point. When…
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The Best Fake “Dark Knight Rises” Spoilers
Ah, Internet. Even if one doesn’t want to be spoiled for The Dark Knight Rises, you can still keep us entertained. Here, we present the best #FakeDarkKnightRisesSpoilers from Twitter… including, of course, a few of our own. (What? You’re not following us on Twitter already?) Batman catches Alfred reading “50 Shades of Grey” alone in…
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A Little Levity for a Friday
These may not actually be the absolute 10 Worst Book Covers in the History of Literature, but they’re definitely on the shortlist. My favorite is right here: Double Penetrator! Try to tell me that was inadvertent! Just try!
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Monday Mix-Up: The Dark Knight (Curtain) Rises
In honor of last night’s Tony Awards, we present you with this little musical number starring everybody’s favorite Caped Crusader: We don’t want to say that Batman’s getting a bit… irked at some of the other movies that have come out so far this year. On the other hand, it’s not like Jim Steinman is…
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John Ostrander: Pop Food
When I was back in college, a girl I was dating teasingly insisted that if I had to choose between her and a double chocolate cake I would have to think hard. “Nonsense, my dear,“ I told her, “You exaggerate. I would always choose you.” After a beat, I added, “With infinite regret for having…
