There are few things Americans like to do more than eat. No one knows that better than comedian Jim Gaffigan. He has made a career celebrating and poking fun at our national obsession. In his new book, Food: A love Story, Gaffigan collects many of his stand up bits and expands on them, adds more, and delivers a consistently amusing, wry, and laugh out loud funny book. What I liked best about the book is that as much as Gaffigan professes his dislike for fruits […]
Diamonds, Dames, and Danger!
I’ve been reading the Ian Fleming Bond books for the last couple of years in order of release. Diamonds Are Forever is the 4th full length Bond novel and like its predecessors much more focused on tension and mystery than over the top action and unbelievable circumstances. This time out, the British secret service has tasked Bond with discovering the head of a diamond smuggling operation. This assignment pits Bond against a crime organization known as the Spang Brothers and puts him in the company […]
Get ready for a lock-in from Hell.
If you were to toss Silent Hill, Event Horizon, The Shining, Office Space, House on Haunted Hill (the 1998 remake), and an IKEA catalog in to blender what would come out is probably very similar to Horrorstör. Less like a novel and more like a movie, this horror-adventure is fast paced, funny, scary and disturbing. Also a heck of a lot of fun! If you are a fan of the movies and games listed above than seek this one out immediately. Amy is an aimless […]
Shine on you crazy diamond
There are three reasons I pushed through The Shining Girls to the end. First, I hate giving up on entertainments half way through. This is also why I stuck with American Horror Story: Freak Show despite it being a fetid pile of rancid bung beetles. Second, I09 was so effusive in their praise I felt like I wasn’t giving it a proper chance. Third, because Wikipedia does not have a complete synopsis. If I’m being honest Reason Third is the most important reason I stuck […]
Fox can’t take this sky from us…
Few things in pop culture are as disappointing as the cancellation of Joss Whedon’s western tinged science fiction series Firefly. Sure we got a movie out of the deal, and a pretty damn spectacular one at that, but there was so much potential in the concept that to be cheated out it by Fox stings worse than most premature cancellations. Well, all that is in the past! Following in the footsteps of Firefly’s big sister, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, the continuing adventures of the Firefly […]
All Fluff and No Substance Makes “Nicholson” a Dull Read
If nothing else, Marc Eliot’s biography of Jack Nicholson reminded me why I don’t typically read biographies of still living people when the subject has no involvement with the book. In relying exclusively on archival interviews and firsthand accounts from a handful of Nicholson’s friends Eliot has put together a superficial account of a man whose life is anything but superficial. Nicholson: A Biography recounts all of Jack’s life from his childhood to arriving in Hollywood up to 2013, yet when it was over I […]