Trash Culture

OK, I warned you guys that I might have to do this from time to time. I’m shamelessly stealing the idea of my fellow staffers Micheal and Ken and having my own named column to talk about a whole grab-bag of crap alongside games. And I’m shamelessly stealing their idea of incorporating my name into the title too. When I stopped to think about how I could riff on my name, the choice of combining a weapon, Games Workshop games and a famous death metal band (even though I hate death metal, y’all seem to love...

(The following is a slightly updated reprint of a column that ran last year. George Lucas is my hero; in another five or six Christmases, this column will actually be about "My five favorite sandwiches", and I'll claim that was my vision all along, but sandwich technology wasn't quite ready for that when the column was originally written.)This time of year, you'll find plenty of radio stations who are on a constant 24-hour Christmas music rotation. Most of them start around midnight Thanksgiving and carry straight through Christmas. The idea is to gorge yourself on a...

Welcome to the first installment of my revamped monthly comic spot here on the Fortress! The way I've been reading my comics has changed as of late (more single issues, less things in trade), and in order to roll with that and to continue writing about them, this new (though familiar) format is really the only thing that makes sense. So without wasting too much time on the details, let's just hit the ground running. 

I don’t have any premium film channels on my satellite package. I don’t go to the cinema any more. I’ve run out of space for DVDs on my shelves and have no way currently of playing digital media direct to my old cathode ray set. So the upshot is that I’ve finally run out of films to watch, which is no bad thing as it turns out there’s been a ton of quality TV on recently so that’s the focus of this weeks trash culture slot. Before we get down to the nitty-gritty I’m...

Short and sweet this week, as I'm still trying to get back into the flow of working (or pretending to) after the awesomeness of Memorial Day and Trashfest South.