The past few years has seen a steady rise in the book to television series genre. Mostly it involves adapting teen paranormal romance and socialite series into a television show of the same name and standing. Trueblood, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Dexter, and Bones were all bound before they were filmed,…
I’m not one for biology in the sense of genetics, codes, mutations, alleles and chromosomes and everything else which I just refer to as “stuff”. I like my science simpler- like rain shadows and solar power. In any case, the Punnett square was not my friend in sophomore biology. However if there is one…
The general reaction of people when I had admitted that I never had seen Star Wars crosses a multiple range of emotions, but never elicited any form of boredom. Often times there were glares, anger, shock, confusion, and on more than one occasion physical violence. I have both been head-butted and kicked in the shins…
Heroes was the new millenium’s mainstream X-Men- a whole bunch of people discovering how it is they have come to be able to do some incredible and some terrifying things other people cannot. Regeneration, painting the future, telepathy, pyrokinesis, super strength, intangibility, being able to speak to technology, time travel at will- a whole…
It stands to reason that most babies are only alive because despite the fact that they cry and sit in their own fecal matter all day, they are fucking adorable. SO adorable that people joke about wanting to eat them up- which we tend to do to cute animals (piglets, baby calves, and in China…
While some may argue that sitting in front of your laptop or television screen all day is no way to spend your life, I happen to think it is one of the very many great past times of being a young adult in today’s society. Pop culture references dropped into everyday conversation? I’m better than…
As a medium for the minority, for the pimply faced lactose intolerant kid who also happens to be a mouth breather; as an inspiration for those who could not stand up for themselves; for the kids from the broken homes and the ones abused- science fiction, fantasy, and comic books have always been there for…
For as long as there have been people, there has been competition. Presidential elections, Coke VS Pepsi, Ash VS Gary and Mustard VS Ketchup. In most product lines and areas of business there are two clear leaders pushing forward, rivaling each other in sales and in popularity. And for comics, it’s pretty clear who those…
A lot of times actors and actresses auction themselves off for charity. For one evening they spend the night with someone who had bid the highest, all in an attempt to get them alone and talk about them. If I were an actor, while I’d be flattered that someone was willing to pay an exorbitant…
When a good show begins to get bad it is almost like a parent watching their honors student fall into the deep recesses of a crack addiction. You watch, you think about how they could have had it all, but instead you give your ratings, you standby them for a while but in the end…
The evolutionary history of mankind can be summed up as stopping the use of our opposable thumbs to make farting noises with our armpits and masturbating to building incredible feats of architecture, machinery, and putting the brain hard to work in decoding the ultimate lock in understanding the genetic code. And of course, figuring out…
When I first saw Avatar it was during a mythology class my senior year in high school at the ravings of a pothead teacher who had seen the film a good twenty or thirty times within its first few months of being released. I was in a classroom grappling with onset of senioritis so I’ll…
