Hey gang, normally I’d prepare a whole thing about the comics I was super hype for this week, but given the events of this Tuesday that seems like it would be in poor taste and also I, like every single American, am so tired and furious and heartsick and weary, and frankly me ol’ fun-tank…
Tag: Reading
A Good Bad Time (The Lightning Thief, Ch.14)
COME GET CATFISHED WITH US! PJ has a wee moment at the bottom of a river–we’ve all been there, we all know this classic way–and receives a word of guidance to…g-go where he was going anyway? Also! The origins of the world’s first floating McDonalds, a list of things baseball bats are not useful for,…
Cowabunga It Is, Then (The Lightning Thief, Ch.13)
PJ and the gang douse themselves in paranoia fuel, have a confrontation with a beloved Bakersfield icon and commit some LIGHT terrorism at the top of a national monument, as a treat. Also William forgets how old he is and sends Casey into a Quantum Leap, we argue about the ground and whether there’s such…
A Post-Pokemon World (The Lightning Thief, Ch.12)
PJ and the crew receive GUIDANCE and WISDOM and SASS and TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS from a most unexpected source! Also we immediately make several terrible mistakes surrounding the number 12, discover the topic that may very well break this friendship in twain, and we unveil Jerry Lewis’s SECRET SWEDISH ORIGIN STORY in The Lightning Thief,…
Comics Haul Week Of 5.18.22
I shout out my prizes from this week’s New Comic Book Day haul! Featuring TWO KINDS of Blade Runner, monkeys that went to space, a blog that’s more of a nightmare than this one and a detective who can’t do his job because he is, and I am not making this up, Chinese!
Beam Me Up, Olympus (The Lightning Thief, Ch.9)
PJ gets to wax oracular, gives Chiron a taste of his own ivermectin, and is finally set upon his quest to the DEPTHS OF WEST HECK! Also we conduct critical Tim/Kyle research, examine the relationship between Godzilla and the cancellation of a food manga, reflect on what we did to Gilligan and ask you to…
Pier Pressure (The Lightning Thief, Ch.7)
PJ receives a gift at knifepoint, does accidental sexisms and wastes a PERFECTLY GOOD hunk of mouthwatering brisket! We also go on an ABSOLUTE RAMPAGE of a beverage tangent, examine what jerks the gods are from a theological perspective, and give you a GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE with a personalized Tarot reading covering the week…
Jason Meowmeowa (The Lightning Thief, Ch.5)
AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF IN A STRANGE SUMMER CAMP AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF FED A DELICIOUS POPCORN-PUDDING AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF GIVEN A PRETTY XENOPHOBIC EXPLANATION OF THE STATE OF THE THEOLOGICAL UNION BY A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR AND YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF: “WELL, WHY DID I COME HERE?” We…
A Crossfade With Some Stank On It (The Lightning Thief, Ch.4)
PJ finally gets some friggin’ answers around here! And by ‘answers’ we mean ‘car crashes and emotional trauma’. ALSO: A lecture in the KINETIC PRINCIPLES of BOVINE MOMENTUM from our visiting Professor of Cow Science, a brief aside on the time Doctor Doom was indisputably the victim of the Fantastic Four, and an introduction to…
January 2020 Books Read Standouts: Little House On The Prairie/Gideon Falls, Vol. 1
Little House On The Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House is one of my very favorite shows, and has become a large part of my personal mythology. I came to it reluctantly, buying the boxed set for my wife one Christmas because she loved it when she was a kid, prepared to sit through what I…
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