Monthly Archives: May 2009

Amusing Search Terms

Posted on May 31, 2009 by

Part of the joy of having a blog, aside from the ability to vom out words to an audience of nada, is the Stats page, which gives you the ability to monitor your own flailing social trajectory like Kirk’s dad … Continue reading →

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Coraline Review

Posted on May 20, 2009 by

Saw this yesterday in the absence of ‘Synecdoche, New York’ at my local cinema. Well, it looks great and the score is fantastic, but it all ends up feeling a bit one-note. The fantasy world that Coraline finds herself in … Continue reading →

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Batman is ‘Dead’.

Posted on May 19, 2009 by

So, Batman’s dead. Not really, of course. After all, he’s alive in all our hearts, as well as various underpants, action figures and lunchboxes across the land. Not to mention the fact that he’s currently slumming it in the Stone … Continue reading →

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Book Signings, Embarrassment and the Consolidation of Every Fictional Construct Into One Glorious Paean to Human Imagination.

Posted on May 5, 2009 by

I’ll finish the thing about dream endings another time.  I got stuck. Last Saturday saw me make a more pronounced return to the field of comics, as the majority of the day was spent in a line circling the premises … Continue reading →

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