To any actual mentally deficient folks reading this blog, I owe you an apology: not for alluding to the word retard in my title, but for demeaning retarded people everywhere by associating them with the sort of daft, uncoordinated ogre it must take to throw a controller through a television. Do I have to […]

I realized something today: I have no regrets that I turned my back on my old friend, the video game console, so many years ago.  I loved my NES and my Sega Genesis; but when Sony and Microsoft entered the console market and the race began to see who could squeeze the most buttons and […]

It was only a matter of time until I decided the world needed to hear my thoughts about Michael Richards. My time has finally come; and yet here I am, not entirely sure of what I want to say about it. Right now I’m torn between which side of the argument frustrates me more: the […]

Back when I was being brought up on Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, nobody told me there was a more adult side to Mark Twain. I was introduced to some of the philosophical issues regarding morality in Huck Finn during a college philosophy course but even then, quite surprisingly, the fact that Mark Twain was […]

I love Asian cinema: from the disturbing, dark and depressing tales of vengeance directed by Korea’s Chang-Wook Park to China’s semi-historical stories of superhuman strength and national unity. And Japan? Oh Japan, how I love thee! And not just for your cute girls, gadgets, and filthy movies either. I love your culture, […]