Entry the first: The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot You’ve heard them: the bizarro Christmas songs that get played on the radio in December because they feature ‘Christmas’, ‘Holiday’, ‘Jesus’ or ‘Snow’ somewhere in the chrous. They confuse. They anger. They make you feel bad and conflicted about something that should make you feel [...]
As if it wasn’t hard enough to be Santa this time of year. The challenges of meeting a huge Christmas delivery deadline with a recalcitrant all-elf workforce has got to weight heavily on the mind. Not to mention the constant PETA lawsuits for alleged reindeer abuse. So you’ve got to feel bad for the guy. [...]
Oh, BBC. You do so much good, but sometimes you act like a stodgy bastion of 1940′s uptight morality. The broadcaster has censored portions of The Pogues‘ Christmas classic, Fairytale of New York. The song, a duet between Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and late singer Kirsty MacColl, is a bittersweet look at a relationship gone sour [...]
IGN has a great feature up detailing the evolution of Batman’s greatest foe- the grinning homicidal lunatic known simply as The Joker. It covers all the ground from his 1950′s origins right through to the character’s dark reimaginings in the upcoming The Dark Knight. I didn’t think Heath Ledger could look particularly scary, but there you [...]
With American election hysteria settling once more upon the continent, I thought it would be an opportune moment to post this piece of inspired silliness: “I am Friedrich Nietzsche und I approve this message.” Genius.
Cryptozoology- literally, the study of ‘hidden animals’- gets a bad rap. If you say you’re into cryptozoology (which I am), people tend to look at you cock-eyed. I think this is due to two problems. First, with all the crazy Loch Ness Monster and Sasquatch hunters out there, cryptozoologists tend to come off as a [...]
I’m not quire sure how it happened, but celebrating the birthdays of inanimate objects has become a veritable tradition here at Nunc Scio. Maybe it’s because I think humanity’s gizmos are invariably more interesting than the people who make them. Or perhaps this is some holdover of my youthful fear that if I wasn’t nice to [...]