The career of Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson has been utterly fascinating. I enjoyed wrestling when I was a kid, but had fallen off the whole WWE thing by the time that the Rock was a going concern, so I didn’t know much at all about him from […]
As someone who writes obsessively about the Simpsons, a show the vast majority of people have all but given up interest in, it can get exciting to see the show suddenly make it back into the pop culture conversation. It can sometimes feel like I’m shouting into the void, […]
Hey, hey, everybody! Welcome back to my Lifetime of Simpsons with yet another episode in this bold new version of the project. And boy do I have a scatterbrained episode to share with you today! It’s been a while since I’ve had an episode like this where […]
In 2011 I picked up a new novel that had come highly recommended to be from friends both digital and in real life. I’ve always considered myself a geek, I mean, I run a blog that’s primarily devoted to the Simpsons and Batman. The book was blowing up, and […]
Howdy everyone, and welcome back to another installment of the new and weird era of Lifetime of Simpsons. And we get a really weird and unfocused flashback episode that drives me insane because it mucks around with the timeline in a way that I’m sure most people […]
It’s interesting to see some creators attempt to be jack of all trades, trying out a litany of different genres of storytelling, while others decide to carve themselves out a very specific niche. They can devote their life to becoming the undisputed master of a very specific […]
Well, this is a tad anticlimactic, isn’t it? After three weeks of wrap-up, and two weeks off, I’m back talking about the Simpsons. I just can’t escape it. I was wondering what to do about the rest of the series’ run, and decided against waiting for a […]
I’ve mentioned it on the site before, but I’m not exactly the biggest gamer in the world. I do enjoy video games, and I’ll admit that I’ve spent a shocking amount of my recent life playing Overwatch to an unhealthy degree, but by and large I haven’t been someone […]
You know what the hardest type of movie to write about is? Ones that are just fine. A movie that I feel really passionately about, even if it’s negatively, can be a breeze to write about, and will often lead me to have to reign myself in […]
Pleasant surprises can sometimes be had to come by when you’re an obsessive film-geek like me. I frequent several film-news sites, and go to the theater and see new trailers enough that I tend to get almost every upcoming film on my radar. Usually to the […]
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