Month: June 2012

There’s only one candy with a hole in the middle. Apologies for the unnecessary callback to a long-forgotten 80s TV commercial, but this is my clever way (I try) of bringing up the topic of Twitter, and why I suddenly fell off the Twitterscape a couple of weeks ago. I tweeted a lot, too much…

A beautifully choreographed fight/action film can be a glorious thing, and The Raid: Redemption sure is glorious. There was a time when I couldn’t get enough of Hong Kong action flicks, buying DVDs online on a regular basis — and before that VCDs — and roaming message boards that covered them (that’s also where I…

You’re seeing the covers for both episodes 54 and 55 of the Codex because I’m using this as an opportunity to remind you that the former came out a couple of days ago (after a too long break), and I’ve just released the latter. You’ll also notice that I broke my tradition of changing the…

Who shot J.R.? If you grew up in the 80s, you immediately know what that question refers to. I was too young to watch (or really care about) Dallas when I was a kid, but I still have quite a few nostalgic memories of it, not just because of the stranglehold it held on pop culture…

Hey, this site looks different. When I started this blog 10 years ago, one of the things I loved to do was change the design every few months. It was a seasonal thing, almost. The last version of the site has been pretty much the same — with the odd little edits here and there…