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vampires vs robots vs werewolves vs monkeys vs pirates vs yeti vs zombies?

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Earlier this month, I was paging through a catalog of upcoming comic books and couldn’t help but notice the flood of upcoming comics with “vs.” in their titles. There was Yeti vs. Vampire, Vikings vs. Werewolves, Pirates vs. Ninja, even — and I’m not making this up — Superman and Batman vs. Vampires and Werewolves.
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Tags: general

step one: admitting you have a problem

October 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Random message from DasMegabyte today:
EA is releasing SimCity for the iPhone. This is the sort of thing that could lead to me being some kind of digital bum, wandering the streets from starbucks to starbucks in search of a powerstrip, long beard spattered with cookie crumbs

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Tags: gaming

things we learn about ourselves from others

August 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Earlier today I spoke with Brian Warmoth, who was one of my former co-workers at Wizard and is currently the marketing manager for Devil’s Due Publishing. He told me that he’d recently communicated with one of MTV’s Splash Page writers about upcoming coverage, and over the course of their conversation, mentioned both my arrival next [...]

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they can rebuild you, they can make you stronger

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

From today’s conversation threads:
11:38:04 AM varmouth: shit, myspace has an ad for “laser skin tightening and body sculpting” procedures
11:38:16 AM varmouth: they can do that?
11:39:56 AM gatrbite25: yeah, but you become a cyborg, and whenever you try to run or jump, you can only do it in slo-mo…
11:40:25 AM varmouth: if i can get lasers [...]

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