Archive for October, 2011

Halloween Special: An Interview With Cosplayer Nash Nova

October 31, 2011
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Halloween Special: An Interview With Cosplayer Nash Nova

Just in time for Halloween, we present an interview with someone who knows a lot more about costumes and costuming than most: a real life cosplayer.
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Ed Piskor Talks Comics

October 28, 2011
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Ed Piskor Talks Comics

Ed Piskor's recently finished the online version of his 400+ page graphic novel, Wizzywig, which will soon be given the collected treatment by Top Shelf. Wizzywig is the story of Kevin Phenicle, aka "Boingthump," a phone phreaker/hacker during the early days of high-tech computing who is sort of a pastiche of several real-life individuals.
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The Curious Case of Don Julio 70

October 15, 2011
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The Curious Case of Don Julio 70

A review of Don Julio 70, created in honor of the 70th anniversary of the year that Don Julio González himself began making tequila. It's presented as something of a "best of both worlds" tequila, merging characteristics of blanco and anejo all in one through a special filtering.
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‘Drive’ Thrives on Full Tank of Style, Narrative

October 10, 2011
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‘Drive’ Thrives on Full Tank of Style, Narrative

Drive, starring the currently ubiquitous Ryan Gosling, is in part an homage to Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) and quite an earnest endeavor: a post-modernist situation lacking most of the tropes and characteristics of the post-modern film.
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Happy 121st Birthday, Yosemite National Park

October 1, 2011
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Happy 121st Birthday, Yosemite National Park

Few places can match the pure grandeur of Yosemite National Park. On Oct. 1, 1890, the U.S. Congress reserved more than 1,000 square miles of "forest lands" in the Eastern/Central part of California. With that action, Yosemite became a national park.
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