So Netflix finally dropped their new show Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Produced by showrunner Kevin Smith of Silent Bob, View Askewinverse, and Dogma fame, this new show is essentially a five episode miniseries that picks up right where the original 80’s cartoon left off. While it also left He-Man’s name off the title (which will be important later), it takes all the beefcake bodies, veiled queerness, “fabulous superpowers,” and 80’s heavy metal look and feel of that original show, and adds the 21st century sheen of context, character depth, and stilted adulthood.

We nostalgia monkeys often forget that our…

So I finally got to catch up on the first episode of Marvel’s Loki, a show about a bad boy gone… less bad? …Maybe? Suppose we’ll see. All in all, the show itself was a fantastic romp.

Loki picks up with a version of Loki who escaped capture just after the first Avengers film after the OG Loki was killed by Thanos at the end of Avengers: Endgame. So this guy we’re following in the show has just unleashed hell on New York City, gotten “puny god-ed” by the Incredible Hulk, and completely embarrassed by Earth’s Mightiest Heroes his murder…

There’s this cool shop in Austin on the south side of town in the same area as a comic book store, clothing resale shop, and just behind the diner that serves cinnamon roll pancakes. It’s called Aaron’s Rock & Roll and it’s like Spencer’s Gifts had a baby with a Hot Topic then left it with of its babysitters of punk rock scene kids, movie buffs, and kitschy toy collectors while making the bacon as a bouncer and comic book artist respectively.

Legend has it, their original location was on the infamous 6th Street where drunken college kids could venture…

Rob and I waited for Brian for like two hours. He said he had to something to do with both milk and a toilet, and I guess it took him a little more time than he thought to figure it out. Since I hadn’t seen him in almost two years, and almost forgot that with a spirit as free as Brian’s, time is but dust in the wind… dude.

Luckily, I got to wait for him inside the relaxation suite we lovingly call “Rob’s House.” That guy knows comfort, cookies, and smoking, as he often using meat to express…

We have to keep the rules and revelations we set for ourselves on a wall, because we’ll completely forget to live by them otherwise.

One month ago, I swear I developed the cure to the depression I was wading through at the time. Struggling to make a decision or say a thing, I remembered something very important… something that I’ve consistently forgotten going all the way back to a math video game on the Commodore 64 giving me an ugly face for every wrong answer.

Thanks to hard work, good coaching, and the power of basketball, he was able to leave rural Mississippi for Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He was the first in his family to go to college, so there was likely a great deal riding on him, with little in the way of maps through the uncharted territory he would face after leaving home.

There is one particular story he told me years ago that I wrote off as a joke after he finished it. It sounded so absurd at the time that it took another 20 years and a retelling…

According to all these blockbuster trailers from franchises like Marvel and Fast and the Furious, movie theaters are on finally back. Disney will continue keeping 70% of our mind share and 80% of our funds as we march toward a capitalist nightmare state of theme parks and movie sequels. Either way, I am still excited to go out and see some movies!

The last one I saw inside was Bad Boys for Life. I want to tell you it was stupid and I hated it, but it was stupid and I loved it. It was 100% the kind of movie…

Sudden California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner recently came under fire for opposing trans girls competing in school sports. As she is a trans woman and former olympic gold medalist, many were shocked by this stance. Unfortunately, if being something was the same as protecting something, the US would be a vastly different country. I also don’t think it’s strange position for a wealthy, politically conservative, 71-year-old personality to take on what has quickly become a politically conservative viewpoint this year. That’s right. Trans people throwing balls around is political.

While I am not transgender, I still believe trans girls should…