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Jason presides over a vast blogging empire that includes DadCentric and his personal site, Pet Cobra. When he's not blogging, he can be found surfing or skateboarding or just gazing out his window, muttering incoherently about someone or something named Rosebud.
Let’s talk about the word “douchebag”. As societies develop, so too do their languages. The version of English that Geoffrey Chaucer used to write The Canterbury Tales would be all but unrecognizable to most folks today. Famed novelist Patrick O’Brien – whose seafaring adventures were the basis of Russell Crowe’s excellent Master and Commander: The [...]
First, let me point out that my Fan Theory about Star Trek Into Darkness villain John Harrison’s true identity, postulated back in March? EERILY PROPHETIC. Now, to the business at hand. You could hear the cries of protest even before Star Trek Into Darkness hit American theaters – a review posted to Ain’t It Cool News on [...]
Some works of art have long been thought to be unfilmable. Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time. David Foster Wallace‘s Infinite Jest. James Joyce’s Ulysses. Pac-Man. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from trying, and occasionally it’s led to some fairly decent results: Michael Ondaatje’s difficult, non-linear novel The English Patient was pretty good, John [...]
COULSON LIVES! See? There he is! Front and center in this promo pic for Joss Whedon’s new ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Well, at least it looks like he lives. Knowing Whedon, this could be a ploy – Coulson’s fellow agents carry around his corpse to make the bad guys of the Marvel Universe think [...]
A few years ago, I was sent to cover ComicCon in San Diego by a webzine. It was a geek’s dream: not only did I get a very hard-to-obtain ComicCon press pass, not only would I be hobnobbing with the likes of Joss Whedon, George R.R. Martin, and J.J. Abrams, getting to see exclusive footage [...]
