So here’s the deal: Life isn’t easy for Wreck-It-Ralph. Every day, he destroys the same apartment building, only to have Fix-it-Felix fix it and toss him into the mud. Ralph wants to stop, but, as an arcade game antagonist, breaking…
It’s 2012, and Red Mango has heralded a new age for bacterially-fermented milk. If frozen yogurt were an indie musician, it’d be Gotye: three albums in and suddenly it’s omnipresent. The appeal is easy to understand as a comparison of…
Man. Just one political blog in, and I’m sure the blog-reviewing pundits are already hailing me the most effective commentator of all time. I’m speaking of course about last month’s article, in which I said that Mitt Romney was going…
One of the great things about writing a column where I’m allowed to bring a cynical, slightly-ironic hipster’s perspective to news stories is that literally everything is newsworthy. What I’m trying to say is that timeliness is a non-issue. I…
Sure, I’m picky about my Sherlock Holmes, but I don’t think you have to be a pretentious scholar of nineteenth-century literature to see that the new Holmes film, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is incredibly disappointing. Of course, there’s…
I think it’s important to begin this review by letting everyone know that, when it comes to the Muppets, I’m a little biased. I grew up in a Muppet household, where the centerpiece of my family room is an autographed…
It’s hard to believe that next year marks They Might Be Giant’s thirtieth anniversary. Brooklyn’s premiere alternative rock weirdos have left their impact on nerd culture like no other band, and it’s reassuring for groupies like me that they haven’t…
If you spend any time reading webcomics, there’s little doubt that you’ve been exposed to Axe Cop. Two years ago, 29-year old artist Ethan Nicolle began drawing stories invented by his five-year old brother Malachi. The two created one of…
As recent trends in film, video games and clothing have indicated, Americans love comic book characters. But, as recent sales trends have indicated, Americans don’t love comic books. We’re talking about an industry where $4 gets you 20 pages of…