Conspiracies I Don’t Understand
I love me a good conspiracy. Who shot JFK? We don’t know. There’s weird shit there that doesn’t make sense. Was the moon landing faked? I used to call shenanigans on that, but, my god, we can’t even get out …
Byrds of Paradise
For a little while this week I was worried that I was the only person who remembered the abysmal one-season flop from 1993, Byrds of Paradise. It only got 12 episodes, and every single moment made you wish you were …
Wage Slave
Almost two years ago, I switched jobs at my idiotic company. I moved from the customer service arena to something (seemingly) far more rewarding that did not involve fucking customer service. It’s taken me this long to fully come to …
Pod People
It’s been awhile, so I figured I’d marathon the various versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Finney’s delicious little silver age sci-fi novel has spawned four official sequels so far. The original, of course, is a classic tale of …
Failure to Thrive
All of my friends loved this old girlfriend I had. Despite the relationship ending poorly, they said that she should be congratulated for “healing me” or whatever the fuck. I can’t help but interpret this as some sort of backhanded …
With Friends Like These…
There’s a great moment in the film Pump Up The Volume where Slater’s character is about to throw in the towel after he realizes the power of his pirate radio show, and is stunned by what it’s led to. “You …
Psychotic Monster Screening Quiz
I recently took all the quizzes on Psychcentral to see if it was okay for me to have killed and mutilated all those illegal Mexican girls when I was living in the small border town of Antelope Wells, NM. Good …
My Best Side is Genocide
A review from the American Psychological Association “confirms a link between playing violent video games and aggression.” Okay, fair enough. But it seems like they’re talking about those shoot-em-up military games. I was really hoping the report would address my …
The Death of a Hometown
Oh, Bethesda, my Bethesda. A quarter of a century ago you were a sleepy little suburb, the end of the subway line, a quiet little community with no skyline and you curled up and went to sleep when the sun …
Not So Soft Reboot Part One: Space: 1999
Shows like Falling Skies reboot themselves every year, and, perplexingly, sometimes during the season itself. Most of the time, as with Lost, and Revolution, and Jeremiah, the “soft reboot” of a sci-fi show between seasons is intended to address the …