Momofuku
May 06
We don’t talk much about music here at Alert Nerd, but I’ve always believed in the grand tradition of gawky guys with Buddy Holly glasses spitting articulate spite into a microphone–basically, geek rock.
There’s your Weezer, your They Might Be Giants, your Ben Folds and Fountains of Wayne…
…and then there’s Elvis Costello, the godfather of geek rock. (I won’t say “grandfather,” because the dude’s got two babies at home–way to go, old man!)
Elvis has a new record out, entitled Momofuku, and it’s pretty fucking good.
Me and FCBD: WTF?
May 05No, seriously: WTFingF???
I blog and write about comics and geek shit for years all over the internet, and no one even notices, even though I have this fucked-up need to gain the approval of everyone I meet, probably because MY DADDY DIDN’T LOVE ME ENOUGH. Boo hoo, right?
Then I write one post about Free Comic Book Day, and it gets one link, and suddenly everyone’s all up on my ass. It’s like the fucking Thunderdome in the comment thread, and over on the Beat, some dude said I was a shitty father because I took some free comic books.
Jesus! I mean, really. Am I gonna be That Asshole Who Stole Comics now forever? As in, “Well, I appreciate Matt from Alert Nerd curing cancer, but he DID steal those free comics a few years back…”
I’m sorry I stole free comic books. Can’t we just be friends? I’ll return them if you want.
True Geek Confessions: I Stole FREE Comics!
May 04Complaining about Free Comic Book Day seems like a true asshole move. After all, it is a day that has become a kind of Nerd Christmas, when the geek masses flood their local geek emporiums in order to receive FREE COMIC BOOKS. In a perfect world, they rub elbows with the great unwashed masses who don’t know from comics, yet also receive FREE COMIC BOOKS, and everyone celebrates the art form and hobby I love.
So first: Thanks to all the stores participating in Free Comic Book Day. You’re doing good work, and mostly, you’re doing it well.
Now let me bitch, like the whiny weasel bitch that I am.
The Marvel Initiative
May 03If you haven’t seen Iron Man yet, do yourself a big favour – sit through the credits. Your thanks can be sent to me in the form of small cash remunerations via PayPal. If you have seen it and you didn’t sit through the credits (and if my showing was any indication, about 95% of you didn’t) I’m sorry. You missed out. You will, in time, through sheer internet osmosis, find out what you missed, and you will be sad. Very sad. You might want to check out YouTube, quick. It may help.
For those of you, my brothers and sisters, who stayed… HOW FRAKING AWESOME WAS THAT?
I will expound shortly – as this is the harbinger of some big things in comic movies – but for the moment, everyone should have a chance to go see the movie
Four-Color Critiques #2: Hot Girl-on-Girl Continuity
May 02If a great deal of the work being published by DC Comics today can be classified as “continuity porn,” then The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck has to be the continuity equivalent of the hottest, raunchiest porn you’ve ever seen, starring every girl you’ve ever dated, engaged in scandalous acts with every actress and lingerie model you’ve ever fancied. Plus donkey dicks, if you’re into that sort of thing.
That said, it’s still pretty good.
