November is going to be a pretty full month for concerts. I wonder why so many bands wait until the end of the year to book? Probably cheaper than doing it in the spring or summer. But anyway, here's what i have lined up ( Read more... )

Well, not implode, really. But they are giving the lead singer Tarja the boot for being a complete and total bitch. You can read all about it in the open letter the band wrote to her.

( Take a look at the letter )

This is pulled off of Penny Arcade: Jack Thompson's latest insanity, take a look ( Read more... )

It's funny what you pick up in casual conversation. I was talking music with an online aquaintance and he informed me that the Paradise Lost album i have contains a cover of Dead Can Dance's Xavier. How this album managed to sit on my hard drive and i didn't realize this fact is beyond me. Then, i mentioned about the song Erased (a Paradise Lost ( Read more... )

Yesterday was pretty crazy. All it did was rain... and rain and rain: heavily, in sheets, sideways. I don't think any of us escaped the day without becoming a wet sloshing mess, soaked to the bone. we'll all be lucky if we don't get sick ( Read more... )

What i have here is the living proof of the decline of marvel comics. Cable & Deadpool #20. The first page has to be read to be believed. It is arguably the worst page they have ever written, yet at the same time it is unbelievably hilarious, in that tragic kind of way ( Read more... )

While i have never been big on the whole PvP thing (let alone GvG - Guild vs Guild), i have been in the mood to try out a new mmo, and this one has some intriguing elements (such as the ability to round out an adventuring party with npc's if you choose not to group). I have a friend or two that plays and has already offered me guild membership, ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman released a new book yesterday, called Anansi Boys. It is about a man who, upon his fathers death, finds out that his father was a human form of the african trickster god.. Anansi. Not only that, but that he has a brother named Spider who has some of his fathers powers. This brother gets him in all sorts of trouble: Gets him fired, ( Read more... )

Sirius: The 'Dog' Star ( Read more... )

Whichever one of the reasons you will ascribe this too, i got the urge to post something about the origins of the months and days of the week.  So on the chance that someone besides me finds this sort of thing interesting, or dare i say even fascinating, here we go:

First, the days of the week:

Monday is named after the Norse ( Read more... )