A Visit to Bizarro Con 2015
It was sometime after the man in the mushroom cap sang a song about earwigs yet well before Werner Herzog’s nihilistic re-imagining of “The Wizard…
Read MoreIt was sometime after the man in the mushroom cap sang a song about earwigs yet well before Werner Herzog’s nihilistic re-imagining of “The Wizard…
Read MoreI blame Nigel Slater. Were it not for his BBC show back in November, Nigel Slater’s Icing on the Cake (the third in a series…
Last year when Magnetic Fields guy Stephen Merritt and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s book 101 Two-Letter Words (Amazon, iBooks, Powell’s), which aside from being…
Fresh. Delicious. Perfectly cooked (oh, how I hate that one). The way we talk about food, especially how it’s described on menus, plays a huge…
Though focusing on Archie comics, which we will get to in a moment, Twelve-Cent Archie (Amazon, iBooks, Powell’s) points to a wider anxiety in comic books….
For film buffs, movies that were never made or have never been seen hold an undeniable fascination. Last year’s documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune detailed the impressive…
I’m not sure how I missed the boat when it comes to Worn (Amazon, Powell’s). I had always sort of known of their existence, but…
The photographs are, of course, iconic. As in, I remember exactly where I was when I opened that September 1991 issue of Vogue to flip…
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge An amazing tale of human’s first contact with non-humans, which is also a prequel to Vinge’s earlier…
When Laura Palmer said “I’ll see you again in 25 years” in the Twin Peaks series finale back in 1991, few of the show’s remaining…
In the 1970s, there were few fandom manias more intense among kids than Planet of the Apes. Star Trek couldn’t really hold a candle to…
If you ask most people, their best-loved books about food are probably cookbooks. They likely don’t actually cook from these tomes but rather consider them…