Food, foodies, and jerks
I love food. Mostly I love eating it, but on a good day I’m also capable of taking a great deal of pleasure in cooking. I’m not a natural cook, and I’ll fess up to letting my wife do most of the big meal preparation in our house, although that’s changed a bit in the … Continue reading
October 17-20, 2011
Lindsey Malta loves a good fart joke (who doesn’t?), but even her sense of humor has its gross-out limits. Find out what they are in “Bad swag”
Ana Holguin continues her round up of her favorite new fall TV shows in “What I’m Watching: The New Girl”
The Gamers’ Club is playing EarthBound. Read “They call me Mr. Saturn” by Daniel J. Hogan and “I don’t feel well” by Gavin Craig
Jill Kolongowski gets backs to vegetables by taking on broccoli rabe. Only one of them emerges. I won’t tell you which one. Read “Broccoli robbed”
Bad swag
Novelty items are popular. People can’t help buying silly, whimsical merchandise if they think the joke is hysterical or their love for geekery is strong enough. I am no exception. I used to own a Kermit the Frog phone. If the items double as something moderately useful then so much the better! (I’m looking at … Continue reading
What I’m Watching: The New Girl
The New Girl (Fox, Tuesdays) Okay, so this is a show I didn’t expect to like. Zooey Deschanel is always so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with her twee little singing voice and her goody-goody cotton outfits and her healthy eating habits and her Death Cab for Cutie husband. Bah! I half expect pink bunnies to pop … Continue reading
EarthBound: They call me Mr. Saturn
EarthBound is not lacking in the quirky characters department in the least. This is a good thing, as it is one of the game’s strong points. There are plenty of What the French Toast? moments in EarthBound. Case in point, Mr. Saturn. That is to say, all of the Mr. Saturns. Yes, there is more … Continue reading
EarthBound: I don’t feel well
I was going to give up on this whole “my life is a lot like EarthBound right now” thing, or at least dial it back a little. Really I was. And then last Monday, as I was having pizza with old Lansing friends who no longer live in Lansing at our favorite Lansing pizza place … Continue reading
Broccoli robbed
If you read between the lines of my last few posts, you’ll notice that I haven’t really been cooking. Not only did I move from one ocean to the other, but I also started a glamorous new lifestyle — freelancing. By glamorous, I mean that it’s an effort to put on pants in the morning … Continue reading
October 10-14, 2011
Before Mike Vincent sent out his words on the digital tip, his voice rode the airwaves as a DJ on broadcast radio. Find out how it went down in “Radio gaga”
You thought you that there was some scary shit in the movies? Lindsey Malta schools you on mother nature’s freaky side in “Natural monsters”
Too many film adaptations of Shakespeare are boring. They aim for ponderousness and end up just plodding along. Fortunately, there are some good ones out there too. Sarah Werner points you in the right direction in “Shakespeare”
Ana Holguin continues her round up of her favorite new fall TV shows in “What I’m Watching: Prime Suspect”
The Gamers’ Club is playing EarthBound. Read “Let’s roll another boulder up the hill, shall we?” by Andrew Simone and “The things we carry” by Gavin Craig
It’s dry, lemony, and bubbly, Italy’s underrated (and happily for us) underpriced answer to Champagne. Francine McKenna handles the introductions in “Prosecco: the perfect accompaniment to love”
Radio gaga
In the Winter of 2004, at the behest of our store’s promotions coordinator I participated in my first radio show. In Lansing there is a local city newspaper named City Pulse, founded and edited by a fellow named Berl Schwartz. I was asked to call in on a Saturday morning to comment on something, in … Continue reading
Natural monsters
My recreational research of animals and overactive imagination means I often entertain the idea of the possibility of movie monsters being real things. For me this is my normal thought process and I don’t understand why everyone else isn’t more scared of this shit. Glow-in-the-dark cat clones are part of our world, what’s so off-the-wall about … Continue reading
