This weekend, my goal was to watch 2 movies: Narnia and Kong. I expected to love Narnia and think Kong was so-so. In reality, the opposite was true. Narnia left me unsatisfied, while Kong blew me the fuck away. I won’t say I didn’t like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the […]
Webster Hall
No longer just a site for a cocaine-infused 80’s dance meat market, Webster Hall is now taking concert overflow from the Bowery Ballroom, and I am glad to see it. I love concerts, even if my aging body is getting less and less resilient to staying out late on school nights. Last night I went […]
Sleeper
I just finished the Wildstorm mini-series Sleeper, by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips. Holy crap, that series was good. It’s definitely the best thing to come out of the Image/Wildstorm universe, better even than the Authority (which turned into a complete crapfest when Warren Ellis and Mark Millar stopped working on it) and Astro City […]
I Respected Grandpa Dan
Grandpa Dan 1921-2005 He wasn’t really my grandfather. He wasn’t even Dani’s, since he was her step-mother’s father. I guess he was my “step-grandfather-in-law”, which is one of those honorary titles we sometimes give our elders that means only what we want it to. This is a grandparent removed from my blood by TWO marriages. […]
Grandpa
My grandfather, who I was named after, died when I was just a kid. My dad’s father, that is. My mom’s father (the Italian barber named Bruno…I swear) died long before I was born. Cancer. Like just about everyone else in my family who’s dead, except for my brother. I don’t really remember a lot […]