This Why We Pirate Things
This is what happens when you try to watch the first episode of Ultimate Spider-Man legally on the Internet. Incidentally, I found this page basically by accident after seeing a Marvel employee tweet...
View ArticleAugmented
Note: This post discusses something happened two weeks ago. Shame on me. Event comics are traditionally big, bombastic, dumbed-down affairs full of testosterone, kick/punching and illusory raised...
View Article‘Game Journalism’
This morning, a flurry of people sent me a link to a story about a four-year-old Saudi boy who shot his father in the head because he refused to buy a PlayStation 3 for his son. Every iteration of this...
View ArticleComics Bros 4 Lyfe
Not too long ago, my girlfriend bought a new mattress. The stockboy at the mattress store brought the mattress out to the curb and that’s when he noticed that I was wearing a Fantastic Four t-shirt....
View ArticleFortunate
At the apex of Nicholas Sparks’ unique brand of Nicholas Sparks-ness, The Notebook, a man proves his love for a woman by building a house for her. The house is a metaphor for the lives shared within...
View ArticleTyrannosaurus Detects! in The Secret of the Petrified Plagiarism, Part 1
Case Date: June 5, 2012 Case Title: The Secret of the Petrified Plagiarism Case Difficulty: Cetaceous With only five more days of school left until summer vacation and a Jurassic level of confidence...
View ArticleThe Death of Hard Manliness and Other Lies
High school runner Meghan Vogel finished fifteenth in Saturday’s Division III girls’ 3200, just behind competitor Arden McMath. McMath had fallen just meters away from the finish line; she appeared to...
View ArticleFive Things Prometheus Taught Me [SPOILERS]
1. While it may be easy and emotionally satisfying to go out of your way to be a dick to a robot, doing so will always come back on you in a bad way. 2. The ability to think laterally is huge. 3. Just...
View ArticleScenes from My Morning Commute, 10/9/2012
During the night, someone has thrown a toaster out of a car window. The toaster has collided with the wrought-iron cemetery fence and shattered, a metal monolith standing erect amid the shards of...
View ArticleSinister
“If you were tasked with remaking The Ring, how would you do it?” I was asking this question at a diner on a Saturday night, and it sparked a ninety minute digression on the now-faded spate of slick...
View ArticleStation ID
Jefferson Stolarship is the personal blog of Jeff Stolarcyk. Who is me, the person writing this. You have no reason to have heard of me and I don’t have the same name as anybody famous, so you aren’t...
View ArticleExtreme Close-Up
Les Miserables is a frustrating film. At its heights, it is one of the best films of the year. At its worst, it is chaotic and uneven, peopled with actors who don’t always have the vocal ability to...
View ArticleJenny!, Part 1
So, the week before Christmas, a bunch of us went up to NYC to be unabashedly touristy and catch up with some friends. Since nobody likes driving in the city and the ferry now costs something like one...
View ArticleJenny!, Part 2
I don’t know which of the six girls was Jenny. In my heart, Jenny is all of them. Maybe in some small way Jenny is all of us. So we’re stranded in Brooklyn, somewhere near Coney Island. Four of us, all...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End
I was watching V/H/S a few nights ago when it dawned on me in the middle of yet another teenager running away in manic horror without dropping his video camera that I was starting to get a little...
View ArticleFrequency
I work primarily in email marketing these days. When a customer who is new to email sees the kind of engagement and return that a well-executed, targeted email campaign can generate, there are usually...
View ArticleOh Gee, Read More
At the outset of 2012, I resolved to read 50 new books and see 50 new movies. I kept track of the effort on Pinterest and, while I managed to watch 70 new films last year, I only managed to read 23 new...
View ArticleConfirmation Bias
When a work of art includes a problematic subject or theme, there are always going to some segment of the audience that believes that confronting that subject is the same as condoning it. It is NEVER X...
View ArticleI’ve Never Seen A Turtle…
Somehow, I ended up on a mailing list for ARCs. And I’m incredibly grateful for that, but it also makes me feel incredibly guilty. I mentioned just a few days ago that I didn’t read as much as I...
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