Author: David Jón Fuller

• January 14, 2013

  Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: Faster Pussycat’s Faster Pussycat

  If you want to understand why glam metal was so popular in the late ’80s, you should listen to a band that had more bite than Poison and better sense of the absurd than Cinderella, which is to say: Faster Pussycat. Named for the Russ Meyer movie Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! the band was just…
• January 11, 2013

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  All the fireworks: As You Were’s 2012 stats

  If you’re a nerd like me, you can’t get enough of infographics and stats. (This doesn’t, by the way, mean I understand Google Analytics any better than you. Probably less.) So I was a bit disappointed when I got a year-in-review animated report from WordPress.com on my blog — which only included data from my…
• January 10, 2013

  Thunder God Thursday

  Thunder God Thursday: Trust Odinn

  OK, fine, we all know Odinn (Óðinn) isn’t the god of thunder; that would be his son, Thor. But I have loved this meme pic since I first saw it on Facebook. Not much to add, other than: this is clearly an Allfather you can trust.
• December 31, 2012

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  2012: What a year it’s been

  Usually by this point in the holiday season (and the year) I am totally exhausted, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank you all for being part of my first year of blogging here at As You Were. I started in February with a WordPress.com site, and started connecting with great bloggers such as…
• December 24, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: Merry Christmas from The Darkness

  Okay, this isn’t a new song, but it is Christmas, and it’s miles better than just about everything on the last heavy metal Christmas CD I listened to. I present The Darkness with “Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End).” If you’re not a fan of The Darkness (recently reunited with a new album out……
• December 19, 2012

  Werewolf Wednesday

  A good year for women werewolves

  It’s fair to say 2012 has been great for women werewolves. Lycanthropes have also had some ups and downs in literature and pop culture this year; and as for gatherings of werewolf fans, there was one disastrous convention and one that was quite good.