There was a bit of a kerfuffle recently online regarding Steve Martin’s 1978 Saturday Night Live sketch “King Tut” and how the humor didn’t translate to modern audiences. And honestly yeah, it kind of straddles a line of being too niche and topical with little modern analog. John Belushi playing…

Dolphins have been a source of human fascination since pre-history. To hippies, they’re our goofy, friendly, tuna-loving genius sea cousins that are possibly psychic or something. To others, they’re deadly sex-crazed monsters literally worshiped by Neo-Nazis. …

I honestly can’t cook worth a damn. I know that’s not very Atomic Age housewife of me, but honestly I’d be more of a “feed my family frozen dinners in front of the television while hiding in the closet eating Valium by the handful as if I lived in a…

(This is a short story I posted on my Myspace blog on October 5, 2008, inspired by both an RFID shopping cart wheel lock in a Walgreens parking lot near my apartment, and the sort of “high-density residential centers” starting to pop up in Austin around then which have now…

BASED ON A TRUE STORY: Over a decade or so before Hedwig and the Angry Inch came out, I was having nightmares about John Cameron Mitchell. Specifically, the image that haunted my dreams was this:

The first anniversary of The Bored Ape Yacht Club is in only a couple months and it’s already been a wild ride. People have went Ape Crazy. Jimmy Fallon, Eminem and Paris Hilton own Apes. Apes are so desirable that they keep getting stolen again and again and again and…

Shit was rough for Hayao Miyazaki in the 1980s. Nobody seemed to know what to do with his more personal, more revolutionary work. Besides ruin it, that is. A lot has been written about Warriors Of The Wind, the butchered 1985 US adaptation of Nausicaä Of The Valley of the…

Upon cursory examination, Remy Boydell’s graphic novel 920London seems like a distinctly modern project. Something that could only have come out the past decade or so. A nostalgic love-letter to the Myspace-era, Hot Topic and the goth-inspired music scenes of the 00s. Anthropomorphic “furry” imagery with a decidedly DeviantArt aesthetic…

What kid has never dreamed of building a robot? All the kids who actually had friends of course, but there were still a lot of us in the “I need to build friends” camp. The Boy Scouts official magazine has published variations on their own personal home-built scrap metal Frankenstein…