Month: May 2012

• May 28, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music

  Slash and burn: former Gunner’s solo album scorches

  SLASH / Apocalyptic Love (Universal) MUSIC fans may well wonder why a band like Guns N’ Roses gets inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when the lineup that made them famous hasn’t played together in roughly 20 years. Then you hear what just one of them can do on an album…
• May 23, 2012

  The coolest stuff, Werewolf Wednesday, Writing

  Werewolf Wednesday: Catherine Lundoff’s Silver Moon

  If you think the modern werewolf tale is a thinly-veiled metaphor for raging hormones, Catherine Lundoff would say you’re right.  Just maybe not be the ones you’re thinking of. Lycanthropy in pop culture has become so attached to the adolescent (I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Teen Wolf were early examples) that we ignore other times…
• May 15, 2012

  Uncategorized

  Welcome to the new site

  I promise, there will be more to come soon.  For those of you migrating over from the previous site for As You Were, you’ll find all the articles and comments originally posted there are now here.  If you’ve never been, welcome to the site — hope you enjoy what you see here, and more is…
• May 3, 2012

  Graphic novels / comic books, Thunder God Thursday

  Thunder God Thursday: Thor hits the funnybooks

  Artist Oliver Coipel revamped Thor’s look for Marvel Comic’s reboot of the series, written by J. Michael Straczynski, in 2007. Author’s note: a few things have changed since this was written. First, there was the resurrection of Thor by Marvel Comics in the acclaimed run on the new title by J. Michael Straczynski, alluded to…