As much as I love Lost and the very character-driven nature of the entire epic, I have to say that the mystery surrounding the Dharma Initiative is by far my favorite aspect of the show. I wish the show had gone into much more detail about them. Hell I'd even support a Dharma Initiative spin-off series (off-Island) about mad scientists, corporate espionage and the mysteries of the universe.

On Twitter I discovered a link ...

As I plan to go through all of the main plot points, mysteries, challenges, etc. in detail while re-watching the entire series, I'll only give some brief thoughts here. After all, such an epic ending to a roller-coaster show deserves some first impressions.

Needless to say, the Lost producers proved me wrong in my assessment of the so-called "flash sideways." And although I would have preferred a "happily-ever after" in which all of our ...

The Twitterverse was abuzz when 37Signals released their Rework book (complete with availability from Amazon.com, and even in the Kindle format). At first I refrained from listening to any hype; but with a quick glance at the back matter, I found myself a button click away from immediate Kindle satisfaction. Topics like "meetings are toxic" and "planning is guessing" hit pretty close to home with my previous job at Travel Tribe... so I clicked ...

Chapter Four of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated is where things start to fall a little bit in disarray for me. Rushkoff begins by attacking the ideology of the Secret, but this is the same guy who wrote Club Zero-G as a graphic novel primer on the idea of designer reality. He's a man who believes that stories shape reality and we are ultimately the architects of our world. I'm no defender of ...

When I was younger I never threw anything away. This isn't to say I was a hoarder. I threw mostly useless shit away sure. But I was a collector (as in collectibles) so I had a lot of things that were collected. Maybe it was some OCD "everything in a line" problem. I liked to have the collection, complete the collection, and think that I'd never get rid of the collection. I had ...

Let's do another comic book review shall we? I've been backlogged like crazy. Some of it has to do with overworking. Some of it has to do with pure laziness. But hey! We have a new design for the web site, right?

A few years back - right before the start of Annihilation: Conquest - I decided to give the Annihilation trade paperbacks a try. I wasn't buying any Marvel books at the time ...

I'll be the first to admit that I was a little jealous of Project Superpowers when I first heard of it. After all, I had the exact same idea of grabbing some public domain characters and creating my own comic book universe out of them (so did many others apparently, including Alan Moore). Of course, I could never get the funding together to do so. My name isn't Alex Ross.

Regardless (because irregardless ...

I've disappeared for a while and most of it has to do with work. Well... not actually work, but instead a strange desire (more accurately a "false need") to accumulate more work in order to accumulate more money. Owning a house is a bit of a shock to the system, and I might have become overtly paranoid with hoarding cold hard cash. I've learned several things in this endeavor.

1.) I hate consulting ...

I became a steady collector of comic books in 1990. Before that, I had loved super-heroes, but lacking any steady place to pick up comics. It was always a few here and a few there. Over the last 20 years (with a short period of maybe 3 years when I had stopped collecting) I've amassed a huge collection of comic books. The problem is, I'm no longer a collector. I still love reading ...

I've been on a collected editions kick as of late. I've gone back and re-read such Jim Starlin fare as the Infinity Gauntlet and his Silver Surfer issues (specifically his "Rebirth of Thanos" arc), as well as taking some looks at Alex Ross and Jim Kruegar's Project Superpowers. To top it all off, I finished up the first volume of Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus as well. In between the reading ...

A lot of people think Lost jumped the shark last season when they began to incorporate time travel into their episodes. On the other hand, there are others that believe it jumped the shark way back in season three when Jack, Kate and Sawyer spent way too much time in the Others' village doing not much of anything. Although I won't point to a particular moment that I feel entails "jumping the shark," I ...

Chapter three of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated is one that hits solidly home for me. Back in September I moved from the overcrowded state of New Jersey to the Western side of Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley - out to the country. Now I'm not that far from a metro-area. Harrisonburg (home to James Madison University) is 25 minutes away (with all it's strip malls and corporate stores). If I'm feeling especially ...

Let me start this review by praising John Major Jenkins for his intense scholarship and dedication to the Mesoamerican culture. If there's one person who should be consulted in any effort to understand or speculate on the various cultures of Central and South America, it is he. Jenkins' opinion is highly thought out, scientifically tested and comes with a solid passion for the material. In many ways, he is more qualified than those scholars ...

As I mentioned many moons ago, I intend to go over Douglas Rushkoff's book Life Incorporated, piece-by-piece. I'm a little behind where I intended to be, but it's not like his ideas or observations are going to be outdated any time soon. An examination of chapter two of his book makes this fact very clear.

The second chapter is one to use as a rallying cry for anyone opposed to predatory practices ...

In lieu of my edict to not post television show reviews until a certain concept or arc can be reviewed in whole, you'll also notice that I haven't been posting comic book reviews either. There's a two-fold reason for that. For one, most of my comics are ordered from Midtown Comics, and unfortunately I keep getting them later and later as the weeks go by. This doesn't bode well for timely ...

The absolute best part of Jonathan Wells' Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design is the quote on the front cover from Ann Coulter: "Annoy and godless liberal; buy this book!" Coulter is the Howard Stern of political conservatism. I probably disagree with about 90-95% of what she says, but she's always fun to listen to. You have to appreciate political bluntness. It's so rare today.

As a disclaimer, this book was ...

Everybody loves a good apocalypse meme. That's why the 2012 one is so popular right now. The millennium came and went without even a harrowing Y2K glitch, so we have to hitch our self-destruction and self-loathing onto another upcoming event. 2012 just happens to be that event.

A while back I finished reading Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Though I have mixed feeling about the book, the cultural examination was fascinating ...

Well... not all reviews are getting canned from this blog. I've decided that too much of my time during the week (when I actually get time to blog) ends up going towards reviewing television episodes of Dollhouse and Fringe. Now I enjoy writing those reviews, but too often I feel obligated to make sure I get those out, even if I have a better blog post on the burner.

Furthermore, the reviews often end ...

My good friend Taylor Ellwood of Imagine Your Reality (a business and social media coaching company) was nice enough to interview me for his radio show on Blog Talk Radio. We spent about an hour talking about technology, social media and the services of my new company Overmortal. My headphones and microphone made me sound a little distant - and my dog barks for no reason at certain points - but the interview went well, and we ...

This show has been officially cancelled... and that's a shame. No, this isn't Joss Whedon's best work, but this showing has become very entertaining, and in a world where most sci-fi drama's follow a specific script, Dollhouse continues to offer surprises around every turn.

The genius is in the pacing. Whereas many mythology-driven shows only have a handful of secrets and continue to dwell on and manipulate those mysteries, Whedon is ...

Every once in a while you need a good episode that plays off of a classic science fiction theme. This is that episode. Borrowing pretty liberally from James Cameron's Alien movies, this episode of Fringe finds the team investigating a crashed freighter with illegal immigrants that had giant hook worms bursting out of their stomachs (up through their mouths however - not actually through their stomachs).

This was another non-mythology episode, which is a pretty ...

My break in writing from my blog usually coincides with my travels for my job, but there will probably be a slightly more extended break in certain aspects of my writing. More specifically, comic book reviews may be absent until releases get back on track. Thanksgiving pretty much broke my rhythm. Since my comics usually come from Midtown Comics (with no alternative in my immediate area), my comics are usually delivered on Saturday. With the ...

DRM is gay. And not gay in the homosexual way - though it may be that too. No. Gay in the gay way. In fact, DRM is whatever term gay people use to say something's gay. It's that ridiculously stupid.

Yesterday I started up my Zune software to listen to some tunes. I was in the mood for something a little on the New Age electronica side. Enigma. Deep Forest. Delerium. Bands like that ...

There are some companies out there that run their business on vengeance - plain and simple. These are the companies that you just do not want to do business with - or even work for. It's nice to want to "crush" the competition, or make comments about putting the other company out of business, or perhaps running them over with the "bus;" but the truth is, these comments are really just ego masturbation meant to make ...

This was probably the best Fringe episode of the current season. We don't learn a whole lot about the Observers, but what we do find out is brain food for any geek or show mythology buff.

In this episode, one of the Observers kidnaps a young woman, which sparks Olivia and the team to try and track him down. Meanwhile, this Observer stirs up trouble with his associates by interfering in the natural course ...