On May 14, 2010 I was walking around with a grin on my face. Why? Because it was Friday? No. Payday perhaps? Nope. I was grinning because it was the day that Heroes was finally and irrevocably cancelled from the airwaves. Like unflushed vomit plugging the toilet the morning after a bender, the acrid stench of Heroes has swirled our bowls for the last time. NBC has finally done the humane thing and spared the viewing public from another atrocious season of television.
Fuck you Heroes; I’m glad you’re dead. Fuck …
You know your Aunt Minnie’s hot V.C. Andrews habit isn’t the same as your ex-roommate’s long-term partnership with big ol’ Russian date bait masterpieces, but most of the time, we only talk about “readers” vs. “nonreaders.” Book lovers come in different flavors, and every time I write about the writing/reading relationship I trip over a giant flavor-definition aside. Enough of that. Here are the five types of readers that I meet in real life. I’m coming back to these at length soon, so if you have a complaint you’d better …
Well, I finally did it. The inevitable event has a occurred. Today I purchased my first iPad.
I’d like to present you with a completely fair and unbiased review of my new product, but I can’t. I’m happy to admit my limitations in this matter. Unlike most humans, I’d hate to delude myself into thinking I can be clear-minded when I am simply moonstruck my the sweet glow of my new Apple product.
It’s imbued with a fulgent technological beauty. When you touch it, it’s like being pulled into a great masterpiece …
After successfully sending their friend back into prehistory via microwave time and space travel, IB and Spacebear try to readapt to office life without Dino.
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Tomorrow sees the state-side release of David Mitchell’s fifth novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet. It marks the author’s first real journey into the sometimes thorny world of historical fiction. Apart from a short treatment of the Falklands War in the semi-autobiographical bildungsroman Black Swan Green, Mitchell tends to consider the real world’s history malleable and sometimes sloughs it completely in favor of complex nested realities, as in Cloud Atlas. A follower of Mitchell’s might consider this new work a strange undertaking, but thankfully, Mitchell has completely forgone the …