Ah, July, that summer month in which we settle into long, lazy days and slow, softball news. Or, that's usually the case. This year, that pattern was disrupted by what can only be described as disrupting news. The day after Fourth of July, North Korea successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. AlphaBay, the online […]
I know I say this every week, but: what a week. It started with the President delivering such an inappropriate speech to Boy Scouts that it prompted an official apology from the Boy Scouts of America, and it ended with a Senate vote on healthcare that lasted until 1:30am, humiliated Senate leader Mitch McConnell and […]
Marvel’s movies and TV shows could already fill hours, if not days and weeks, of your time. Yet, in order to know the full stories behind the Avengers, the Guardians, and the Spider-Men, you really need to go back to their comic-book origins. Now, that’s a time-suck. And a money-suck, too. Don’t fret, dear reader; […]
Silicon Valley (the place) has a long history of big exits: Steve Jobs being forced from Apple, Larry Ellison stepping down at Oracle, and, most recently, Travis Kalanick leaving Uber. Yesterday's episode of Silicon Valley (the show) treated us to another, when Erlich Bachman—Aviato founder, Bachmanity partner, and all-around palapa-immolating gasbag—left his incubator to take […]
Thursday night, global recording sensation and alleged satanic illuminati puppet Taylor Swift released "Look What You Made Me Do," the first single off of her highly anticipated upcoming album. The accompanying official lyric video itself includes lizards, guns, ouroboroses (ourobori?), and spooky messages carved into trees. It is, to put it lightly, an internet conspiracy […]
Metroid: Samus Returns isn't the first remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus. It's just the first released by Nintendo. A bit of background may be in order. In 2003, Nintendo released a game called Metroid: Zero Mission, which essentially updated the graphics and play of the original 1987 NES Metroid in order to bring […]
Gal Gadot is the perfect Wonder Woman. And not just because she spent her two years in the Israeli army as a combat trainer and loves wielding Bracelets of Submission. It’s not even because she’s a feminist. (Though she’s that, too.) Gadot is the ideal heroine because, like Diana Prince herself, very few people in […]
The last few days, if nothing else, have been a time when people have been taking a moment to consider the pinnacles of human achievement. The Winter Olympics are underway, showing off athleticism at its finest. Elon Musk inexplicably shot a car into space but referenced David Bowie, so that was cool. And, perhaps most […]
Over the last seven days, the internet has been full of unwelcome nostalgia: Here's some nuclear brinksmanship! Here's Puerto Rico, decimated by a natural disaster! Here's the Senate, planning to vote on yet another healthcare plan to repeal Obamacare! But it's not all been familiar badness; there's been some new ill-feeling torment, as well. Just […]
So, Solo: A Star Wars Story is finally in theaters. It’s fun! It might not be blowing up the box office, but folks are still seeing it in droves and when they do they’re in for a really nice time. (Alden Ehrenreich is a fun, swaggering Han Solo; Donald Glover is a sexy, swaggering Lando […]