My grandmother owned a ton of Hummels, and I’ve got a strange soft spot for them - enough so that I actually own a Hummel-related domain at Hummel Trader.
Last week Goebel, the German manufacturer of the figurines, announced that it would cease production, after years of declining sales. I assume the decline has a [...]
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From Ghostbusters, a 1984 movie I assume most readers have seen:
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. [...]
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A friend of mine here in Richmond named Ron Klein has done something pretty novel. About two years ago, Ron set out to buy the rights to a book called Turn Your Imagination Into Money, which was first published in 1934. Once he’d acquired the rights, Ron set about preparing a new edition, [...]
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I was checking out the Rhino Records site for Christmas presents and found the Rhino/Blender list of The 100 Greatest Rock n’ Roll Movies of All Time. My first thought upon seeing the link was “this is some transparent attempt to sell schlock surplus DVDs.” But I was wrong: it’s actually much worse. [...]
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…I have decided to have some fun at the expense of those inbred yokels at Gawker. If you have a site of your own, please add a link to Gawker with the anchor text set as “inbred yokels”.
I know, it’s so 2002. Can’t help myself.
Consider it an expression of my larger interest in [...]
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Allow me to be the last person to write about Krucoff’s dismissal from Conde Nast as a result of “leaking” an email to Gawker. As the person who introduced Andrew to the Gawker Media crowd in 2003, I take full responsibility for the utter destruction of his life in the intervening two and a [...]
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We soft-launched R804 this morning.
And by “we” I mean myself and the five or six people who have helped me with their insight and criticisms over the last month or two. I had the product ready to go a month ago, but tweaking here and there as a result of the input [...]
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I love G4 TV. The network recently did a delightful show on how the 1984 E.T. game for the 2600 killed the video game business for ten years. And truth told, I bought a Commodore Vic-20 on the same day E.T. opened, using my snow-shovelling money. (A couple years ago I addressed [...]
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I’m almost ready to unveil my new project - something that I’ve spent part of July and most of August working on. Just a few more days until the announcement.
I’m desperately hoping this will elevate me at least to the Blogebrity B-List from the lowly depths of the C-List, where I currently [...]
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I like comics; newspaper comics, comic books, manga, graphic novels, all of it. I especially like comics with a single creator - there’s something pure about seeing words and pictures that come from the same mind, both trying to convey the same concept.
By the time I started reading them, newspaper comics already [...]
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