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If there wasn’t already enough evidence that I’m a total wuss, my newly found love of Elizabeth Scott just might be the icing on the cake. Although I haven’t had the pleasure of reading all of her novels, it’s fairly obvious that her intended audience is teenage girls. To be fair, I happened upon this book on accident. I saw someone posting about it on Twitter, and not realizing how recently it was written (2009), assumed that it was the inspiration for the Rob Zombie song. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Living Dead Girl is hands down, the most disconcerting book I have ever read, and likely will ever read. That said; it’s amazing and should be read—NO—experienced by everyone. It follows the life a 15 year old girl named Alice. Five years ago she was kidnapped by a man named Ray and made into a…well, basically a slave. What makes this different from an episode of Law & Order: SVU, however, is that it’s told from the perspective of the victim, and trust me when I say that Scott does not pull any punches during the many scenes of first person sexual abuse. Read the rest of this entry →

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This is hopefully the last of the crappy-mic-quality episodes. All things considered, this is a pretty serious podcast.

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• Crappy anime blogs
• Sengoku Basara
• Comic Party Revolution
• OSU
• Baki the Grappler
• Bad anime music
• Dragon Ball Z

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Many people don’t know this about me, but I consider myself something of a philanthropist. I’ve recently started my new job watching Nicolas Cage movies. It’s strictly non-profit, volunteer work, but I feel like a better person for doing it. In the past I’ve advertised my love of Mr. Cage, but I don’t think I’ve written about his genuinely great performances like Sailor Ripley in Wild At Heart or as Terence McDonagh in the subject of this review, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

One of the newest films from batshit insane/incredibly badass director Werner Herzog*, this concerns the everyday life of a crooked cop, played by Cage, who acquires drug addictions and gambling debts after injuring his back to save some dude’s life. Unlike the original Bad Lieutenant, which I’ve never seen (and is directed by the equally insane Abel Ferrara, who made the unbearably boring film The Driller Killer), this is sort of a dark comedy. I think even Cage naysayers can get behind this one, because this is truly, as a friend of mine puts it, “Nicolas Cage…UNCAGED”. Read the rest of this entry →

“Punk’s not…excuse me…Punx not dead.”

With the release of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Grasshopper Manufacture has returned to the fictional city of Santa Destroy, CA to continue the story of assassin Travis Touchdown. Having climbed the ranks in the original No More Heroes, Travis has left the United Assassins Association (UAA) and has spent the last three years wasting away in his room full of otaku delights, including an obese cat named Jeane, a vertically scrolling shooter that only offers one level of play and a short, loli-filled animation called Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly 5 that contains many of the cliches of moe.

However, for some reason, despite the fact that he hasn’t fought for three years, Travis still carries a sub-standard beam katana just in case anyone tries to kill him, and this decision pays off when Travis crosses the path of Skelter Helter, the brother of Helter Skelter from the original game. Travis easily dispatches with Skelter Helter, and Sylvia lets him know that he’s now ranked 51st in the UAA. Read the rest of this entry →