Yelp Troll Reviews of World Renowned Art Galleries - Every now and again I lough out loud at internet trolls. They really are amazing. Flame wars at the bottom of articles on CNN are just the beginning of the amazingness.
Not too long ago I talked about my bucket list and the chance I had to check off an item from the list. The question I have is this - if you get a chance to do a bucket list item twice, do you get extra credit, or are you deducted for not completing the list first? It looks like I have a chance to circle the globe again. This time though, it will be the other way around... maybe that's a different item?
So if there are legal world wide distribution issues, and damage to the negative issues... what's a fan to do? Create Your Own, Apparently. And that is what one fan has done. I have it on good authority, let's call this authority "A FRIEND OF MINE", that not only is this "Despecialized" version is a possibility, it is in fact a reality.
Banksy In New York Book Available - “Banksy in New York” by writer and photographer Ray Mock is the ultimate companion to Banksy’s month-long project on the streets of New York in October, 2013.
The Death of the American Pantheon - Growing up, I fell in love with comic books as most American teenage males did. I was a pretty big Batman fan. No, that didn't come out right. I was an amazingly out of control Batman fan. I walked side by side with Bruce as The Joker emptied Arkham and Bane broke his back. I was there as Robin died. As a new Robin was recruited and died again. I saw as the books turned darker and darker... the epitome of noir. And watched as the comic printing presses just pumped more and more books into an already over saturated market. I'll get back to that point in a moment.
Get The Bird Box Scared Out Of You - Occasionally you find a book that you dig and so you tell a few people about it. Right? And then you forget that you've even read them. And when people ask whether they should read it you say... yeah, sure. It's good. But whatever you are reading right now instantly over rights that particular recommendation. MOST books are kinda like that. Right? They are good. You enjoy them... but when they are gone they lose some of that intensity.
Eggers Wallace Rift and Restoration? Eggers initially wrote a flaming critique of David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest. Ten years later he was given the foreword to the anniversary edition of the novel. The two different perspectives on the novel are conspicuously different. Here they are together in the same place for the first time.
Linklater's Game Changing Movie Boyhood - When Linklater went looking for his acting talent he made everyone agree to meet once a summer for twelve years in advance. To my knowledge nothing like this has ever been done before. The commitment necessary to pull this movie off was outstanding. And yet, it is still basically an unknown movie. I highly doubt that it will be an enormous hit in the theaters even though it should be.
An Open Letter To Shane Carruth - wherein a serious fan boy writes out questions for one of the world's great directors to answer if ever the bottle washes up on his shore.
The Bible Experiment Numbers - an experiment wherein I go through each book of the Bible in order to grapple with the details and the complications of that particular book of the Bible.
It is a story cut from the cloth of Red Wall, and the Chronicles of Narnia with harrowing adventure at every turn. Chat will face cunning riddles, and clever puzzles in order to stay one step ahead of both Kings who now find him and his friends a threat to their sovereignty on the island. But will he discover the Pendant's location in time to even make a difference?