Published February 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm in books, events, manhattan, videogames with no comments
Tagged with andre the giant, comics, dc online, ghostbusters, hawx, honky tonk man, hulk hogan, legends of wrestlemania, mad world, new york comic con, tom clancy, world of warcraft
I realized that yesterday, I went into very little specifics about what I saw at the con. This is not due to some blindness or memory lapse on my part but rather the nature of my particular interest. For me, the con was less a fact-finding mission to glean secrets profound about anything than it was all about the journey, the experience mentally, physically, and metaphysically, in the con itself.
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Published January 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm in books with 1 comments
Tagged with buy the ticket, f. scott fitzgerald, fear & loathing, gonzo, hemingway, herman melville, hunter s. thompson, poo, take the ride, terry gilliam
For reasons I can’t fathom, I never read Hunter S. Thompson. Any of it. I don’t know why. I just never got around to it. Well, finally, after watching two Thompson documentaries over last weekend, I find myself staring at a copy of the Modern Library’s volume of Fear & Loathing.
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Published September 25th, 2008 at 11:00 pm in books, exposition, miscellany with no comments
Tagged with elric of melnibone, health, lords of chaos, ookla the mok
Sometimes you just know you’re getting sick. I knew it the moment I woke up this morning. There was a rough patch at the back of my throat that scraped like sandpaper at every inhaled breath, every sip sip and swallow. I took what precautions I could but as I walked home this evening in [...]
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