Fred and Loathing on The Internet

For the past dozen blog posts, the precedent has been set that the graphic material for each blog post is representative of the blog post content. Given that precedent, there will be an abundance of written material to go along with the nine or so Venture Brothers pictures I’ve made over the...

Today I’m going to be talking about the X-Men. The animated X-Men ‘97 is the catalyst that stirred me to reach into the deeper mythos of the X-Men franchise. I can already tell this will be a multi-part blog entry so let's get down to brass tacks about The Uncanny X-Men before we talk about how...

Although the actual subject of this review is the 2024 TV series production of Shogun, I will be mostly talking about the novel it is based upon. Before we get onto my ramblings about Japan and fiction, I’ll give a summary appraisal of the series (I’ve watched up to episode 8 of 10). The show is...

Hey blog readers! We’ve got a colorful update. With outside data! None of my models is sourcing this update. I found a dataset on Kaggle that has the top 100 Spotify songs for 73 countries (across the past 3 months or so) that is updated daily. After a quick introduction to the Kaggle API, I...

A content only update. New comic in /comics. Huzzah!

Let’s get down to brass tacks. Reviews, and the thinly veiled windows into my tastes they are.

On the spooky season theme, we have the 1970s sci-fi Hollywood production of The Omega Man, very prominently starring a glistening...

Cascades of updates these days. I’ve gotten a taste for CSS so I’m doing what I can to make my website look like something somebody would pay for. I don’t necessarily like doing web design, but I do not want to pay anybody to do the job. I suppose I got that from my old man. If he could fix it...