Death Cab for CutieBrothers on a Hotel Bed4 minutes, 31 seconds

Anyone who has heard Death Cab’s 2003 effort Transatlanticism is aware of the sumptuous aural feast Ben Gibbard is capable of setting the table of one’s ear with. Ambient traffic noise is used to delicious effect in A Lack of Color, its subtle careening vehicular […]

Nintendo “Revolution” Console
Coming 2006

It requires locution — Nintendo has some intestinal fortitude. In this market, they certainly need it. The self-proclaimed king of the family genre of video gaming, Nintendo isn’t so much a monarch as a viscount to Grand Duke Sony and Emperor Microsoft for their respective PlayStation 2 and X-Box consoles. With the […]

Corpse Bride
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by Tim Burton

How fortunate that my connections at the Children’s Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation in Greater Edmonton would finally come to fruition. The Foundation director, Gerry Klebsch, informed me that his brother — a local film critic — had obtained a copy of Corpse Bride, Tim Burton’s return to […]

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The webcomic strip Ctrl-Alt-Del by Tim Buckley has ascended the bloated ranks of gaming comics like a bigger, stronger rat stepping on the heads of its sewage-drowned brothers. Amid the gags about oversized X-Box controllers and the recent melodramatic “house burned down” storyline — which Buckley delivers to us while clutching a hamhock in each […]

Something For Rockets
Everybody Loves a Lot
5 minutes, 23 seconds

For the longest time I did not believe there was something about rockets. That image of the skyward-streaking phallus, its metal shaft probing heaven’s vault, as it were. It seemed so desperately Freudian. But there is something about these Rockets — Something For Rockets, to be nomenclaturally […]

One of Darren Bleuel’s profound strengths is his analytical abilities, no doubt stemming from his prior field of discipline as a theoretical physicist. In Wednesday’s Nukees, he has plied this trade in a fashion one would not hesitate to describe as “beyond masterfully.” But like Richard Feynman and his lectative example of the 15-mile-wide water […]