Buy Or Don’t Buy

You know how Natalie Portman is the face of the ultimate indie-mainstream cross over. She’s cute, smart, vegetarian and a “serious actress”? Well, over the years I’ve liked her less and less. I can’t remember the last movie where it was her role that really made me like the movie. Can you?
But regardless of my [...]

Back in November, this chart from the sci-fi blog io9 caused a stir in economics- and zombie-loving circles. It purported to show an uptick in the number of zombie movies produced in times of economic or social unrest. As the creators said:
Still, even correcting for the fact that there are more movies being made today, [...]

So news of a book which adds zombies to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been floating around the Internet. It’s too late to write a post on that, but trust me, it looks pretty awesome. That book itself is a mash-up, 85% original text, 15% zombies. But now, the book has not been released [...]

When I was younger I had a term for the types of things my friends and I enjoyed half-sincerely, half-ironically: The Cult of Awesome. In this Cult of Awesome were, in rough order of Awesomeness: zombies, robots, ninjas and pirates. (Dinosaurs were in there somewhere too, depending on who you ask.) Vampires, however, were not [...]