Fred Chao: On Johnny Hiro

The overall buzz on Fred Chao’s Johnny Hiro (Half Asian, All Hero) [AdHouse] frequently boils down to words like “genuine” or “fun” or both. What else can you expect from a series that involves giant monsters, stolen lobsters and David Byrne? Well that’s just some of the things encountered in the first three issues. So [...]

Weekend Box Office – 3/31/2008

Rank    Title                                           Weekend          Gross
1.    21                                                     $23,700,000     $23,700,000
2.    HORTON HEARS A WHO           $17,425,000     $117,274,000
3.    SUPERHERO MOVIE                   $9,510,000      $9,510,000
4.    MEET THE BROWNS                   $7,760,000      $32,828,000
5.    DRILLBIT TAYLOR                       $5,800,000      $20,574,000
6.    SHUTTER                                       $5,325,000      $19,103,000
7.    10,000 B.C.                                     $4,875,000      $84,920,000
8.    STOP-LOSS                                    $4,525,000      $4,525,000
9.    COLLEGE ROAD TRIP                 $3,505,000      $38,370,000
10.   THE BANK JOB                             $2,800,000      $24,104,000
 

Mining the Wikipedia Portals

As an unabashed information junkie, I continually feel like I’m missing out on news. As a result, I’m often checking Internet resources for new means for uncovering information (both useless to some and useful to others…).  Today, I discovered the Literature portal at Wikipedia.
From there, I discovered a January 4, 2008 (U.K.) Guardian article that [...]

Patience, please

If you’ve managed to get this far and read this post, good on you!  We know the site is terribly slow right now, and apologize for that.  There’s an issue with our hosting company and their SQL servers.  It’s being worked on, so have patience and things will be back to normal soon (we hope!).
 

Back When I Reviewed

Some of the best times I had writing was back in college, reviewing music for the Georgia State University newspaper. When I realized again how happy that reviewing made me, it dawned on me that all my interviews and reviews (and now blogging) are an effort to recapture that creative happiness.
I can’t relax easily. It’s [...]