I’m a huge fan of the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinners. Al Franken was magnificent at these events during the Clinton administration. This weekend, John Hodgman delivered the speech brilliantly identifying the rifts this President is healing, the rifts that divide Jock from Nerd…
When I was a kid, if I recall correctly, I think my sister’s room was the only one that had a VCR in it. We used to gather in there on Saturday nights for family movie night. Sometimes it would be something family-friendly, like Howard the Duck, or those Ewok TV Movies. Other times though, […]
A friend of mine and I were chatting today when he remarked that he had just picked up a set of World of Warcraft figures as a gift for his dad… “Wow!” I said, “That is so cool that you’re dad’s a gamer!” “Naw, he just likes the action figures.” Still cool. One of those […]
Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters’ children will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife -an axe age, a sword age -shields are riven- a wind age, a wolf age- before the world goes headlong. No man will have mercy on another.(*)
I learn so much from Sesame Street.
Today we wrap up our week-long interview with Pimp of the Internet Tony Mast. We talk about the new short story anthology The Storm Cloud which just recently went on sale as well as the upcoming anthology, Built for Speed. To top it all off, he also talks a little about some other St. Louis […]
We here at IoM are anxiously awaiting this Saturday, June 20th. And why is that? Well, because it’s FREE RPG DAY!!!!!! Yes, the day where we get to embrace our geekiness for FREE! Want to know what kind of cool stuff you can get this year? Check out our previous coverage of Free RPG Day […]
The trailer for Zombieland was released today and, man, this flick looks REALLY good! It cracks me up that Jesse Eisenberg from Adventureland is now in a film called Zombieland. I’m thinking his next film should be called Pirateland, or, even better, Ninjaland. What’s Zombieland about? Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running […]
I don’t know about you, but damn…I’m ready to start prepping for the end of the world RIGHT NOW after watching the new trailer for Roland Emmerich’s newest “destroy sh*t” opus, 2012. Check out the trailer, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, here. In 2012, John Cusack plays Jackson Curtis, a man trying to keep his family […]
As a preview of our upcoming review of Matthias Wolf’s graphic novel Unbeatable (here’s a sneak: it’s damn fantastic), courtesy of CBR, we have a look at the trailer for the book, which is pretty sweet. Have I told you before how much I love trailers for comics? Especially when they’re as well done as […]