February 2012
15 posts
Lester Dent tells you how to write good pulp... →
Do you want to know how to write 6000 words of adventure? Do you want the dude who wrote Doc Savage to give you advice? Then, brother, I got the link for you!
J.R. Blackwell: Opinions on Your Body, Now That... →
jrblackwell:
When you’re pregnant everyone has an opinion about what you should be doing with your body. During this special time, it’s really important that you listen to everyone and do everything they say because if you don’t, you are a bad person.
Remember that no advice is:
a. Made up
b. Irrelevant
…
An Arra-kiss for You!
daveexmachina:
Dune Valentines (via Dave Ex Machina)
This comic, y'all. →
Seriously, read this comics.
January 2012
24 posts
Ben Gulley Talks about Asian Movies He Watched On...
Election
First, I need to start off with an important note. Much like Ong Bak 2, I don’t know the entire story of Election because there is a 2006 sequel I haven’t seen. I still think that movies that are part of a larger story can be judged individually, but it does mean there are aspects of it that I’ll be missing. Election (2005, originally released as Hak Se Wui or Black Society) is a nice...
Becky Cloonan and Brian Wood talk Darkhorse Conan →
I am so pumped for this it isn’t even funny.
Why Kyle Baker is awesome
“Hawkman carries a mace, so it’s important for a writer to create dilemmas which can be resolved with a mace. A guy with a mace fighting a T-Rex is a good fight to watch.”
The Trouble with Truth Vigilantism: It sucks when... →
thatnytimescolumn:
It sucks when people say things that aren’t true. And it sucks when newspapers or TV networks report those statements with zero pushback. It isn’t fair.
But the internet dogpile on this New York Times ombudsman column isn’t fair either. In the rush to shoot it down, critics are characterizing…
This American Life #454: Mr. Daisey and the Apple... →
bornofanatombomb:
“Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out…”
My friend John learned how to make animated Gifs.
Enjoy the fruits of his labor.
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Ben Gulley Talks about Asian Movies He Watched On...
Ong Bak 2
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of Ong Bak (2003), or its breakout star, Tony Jaa. I actually differed with most people on my opinion of that movie; I thought it was entertaining as hell, but I didn’t think that Jaa had the charisma to be the next big martial arts star. His 2005 followup, Tom-Yum-Goong (released as The Protector in the US) pretty much confirmed my...
December 2011
27 posts
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Ben Gulley Talks about Asian Movies He Watched On...
Godzilla: Final Wars
Let me just go ahead and get this out of the way. Godzilla: Final Wars is not particularly good, even when judged on the scale that I have already calibrated specifically for Godzilla movies. The rest of this one is long and nerdy, and it’s all basically just reiterations of what I just said, so you can save yourself a lot of time here. Just to be clear, I actually...
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Ben Gulley Talks about Asian Movies He Watched On...
Part One: The Legend of the Shadowless Sword There’s one big question that I have to answer first: Why The Legend of the Shadowless Sword? I mean, 2011 will eventually be one of those years like 1066, 1215, 1492, 1588, or 1776. Sure lots of goings-on probably happened during those years, but we really only remember one decisive historical event from each. Future scholars will look back...
A conversation with my wife
Me: There are plenty of communes out there that aren’t suicide cults.
Taleisha: I disbelieve.
