Thanks to Mr. Worley for dropping this into HipChat on Friday! <3
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How I Remember David Bowie
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CBGB
We really just stopped for chips and a Coke (everything carbonated was a Coke to me back then, being from the South). At the cash register, we thought that a cassette by a band called The Sex Pistols was about the funniest thing you could buy. I think we were 13 or 14 years old at the time. It was Nevermind the Bollocks. We started a band that week. Eventually, we all kinda’ lost interest (there wasn’t a Jody, but if there was he would have quit and got married). I now have drums in the basement again. But it has been a very long time since I played with an actual band, and…
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Krypted Turns 11 Today
Yup. Somehow I have made it this long. 3,100 posts later, or .77 posts per day, I’m still with ya’. Not sure what the next 11 days will bring us, much less the next 11 years, but I’m honored that so many people visit the site, and I hope I give you cause to continue to do so in the future. At least the graphics are a little better these days… Thanks for stickin’ with me!
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Apocalypse
When I was closing in on the end of my comic book days, Apocalypse came at the tail end of the High Evolutionary. And it was great. And now I get to see it on the big screen!
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Resurgence: After The Powerbook Took Down The Aliens
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The 12 Days Of Christmas Movies
The Holiday Season is upon us. My lights are up, my tree is decorated, and I’m looking forward to all the calories! And I’ve got something to help you get into the mood: Christmas movies! In fact, this is the 12 days of Christmas, where I somehow throw 112 movies out there (what can I say, I get bored easily) for your holiday spirit (or anti-spirit as the case may be) goodness. On the First Day of Christmas, you had to watch: Die Hard. We’re gonna’ ease you into the holiday spirit. This movie isn’t about Christmas, or any other holiday exactly. It’s about Bruce Willis shooting things. It’s not first…
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The Most Important Lesson I Learned About Working With The Press
I was young, I needed the ruppies. It’s an old saying in the world of tech-nerds that describes doing silly things early on in your Legend of Zelda games in order to build up money to buy better swords, bows, and other things that you needed in Zelda. The first time I did an interview with someone in the press, I got caught of guard and said something wasn’t exactly what I meant. I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but when an article came out a few weeks later I was surprised to see that the one quote used was the flippant remark I made; a remark…
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Friday Part Deux
Many devices die the day their warranty expires, but my trusty Apple Airport that carries wireless signal to my drums lasted forever. OK, not forever, But let me tell you, music notes can visibly be seen traveling through the air to get to me when I’m on those drums and that Airport is beaming Spotify or Apple Music to me. And this Airport, it just kept huffing and puffing along. For 6 years, as though to say, “I must be worth more per day of use that that craptastic Linksys the neighbor spent $40 on.” It’s a pride thing, ya’ know… Until today. And let me tell you, you gotta’…
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The Best Thanksgiving Movies For Your Thanksgiving Holiday
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. A true classic. Especially here in Minnesota, where it all started. Woodstock and Snoopy save the day, you learn a simple lesson about the pilgrims. And of course, Thanksgiving dinner served up on a ping-pong table. Classic. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Steve Martin and John Candy in their prime. Traveling across the country to get home for Thanksgiving. “Those aren’t pillows” is still a classic line from a classic movie. It is a different time. 1987. And a few of the jokes might not be as PC today as they were just before Jeremy Piven made it where it was only PC to wear flannel in…