I recently watched the first season of a French animated series called Wakfu. It was fascinating.

On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than an especially well-animated children’s action-adventure series. Indeed, it’s worse than that: It’s based upon an online roleplaying game, and to that extent, it’s basically a commercial for that game. ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I watched a fantastic documentary from Nova called "The Bible's Buried Secrets". As people who know me are well aware, this sort of thing is like crack to me. It essentially looks at the very early history of the Israelite people by means of a combination of approaches and creating a synthesis which is very compelling to me. ( Read more... )

Are you familliar with Dada artwork?

It was this art movement in the early 20th century, created in part by a french artist named Marcel Duchamp. I won't go into great detail as to the history and origins of the art movement; if you want to know more, just click some of the above links. What I'm more interested in here is the spirit of Dada.

Dada ( Read more... )

Any of you folks out there watching The Venture Bros?

I don't watch a lot of TV. In fact... at the moment, this is actually the only TV show I'm watching, what with Dr. Wgo, Battlestar Galactica, and Family Guy between seasons. This is because, however, I have remarkably high standards for what I watch. This having been said, I think I can say that ( Read more... )

I recently saw a documentary entitled The Road to Guantanamo. It was in turns chilling, infuriating, and revelatory.

When I was a kid, growing up in Southern Ontario, I always, always had a problem with the United States. Part of it had to do with the fact that I was a fan of professional wrestling at the time. During those waning days of the ( Read more... )

From BilyWest.com, earlier today :

Yes! A full season of new Futurama episodes is on the way on Comedy
Central! I already knew but every time I said anything,I got my ass spanked
for ''jumping the gun.'' Everyone is coming back and we start recording in
July.So,ahh.....Death to my enemies!

This'll be so much fun.

Billy

Billy West, for those of you ( Read more... )

I was about eight paragraphs into writing a post about how I was washing my hands of all harem anime forever, when it became clear how little I had to say on the topic which wasn't said in the Wikipedia entry on the subject which I was linking to anyways. So: I invite you to read this and share in my contempt.

All I really have to say on the topic ( Read more... )

I've long been disappointed by candies which have struck me as off-theme. I remember some years ago, I saw some X-Men candy bars, one of them with a picture of Wolverine on the wrapper. I asserted that such a candy bar should taste like a sweaty, hairy man, dripping in blood and other bodily substances; this is what Wolverine ought to taste like, I ( Read more... )

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