Listen and learn all about Vyachaslav Mescherin’s Soviet E-Z listening, the first music transmitted from orbit–by Sputnik. Cosmonauts love electro-musical instruments. Scroll down to the bottom of the Third Coast Festival’s 2004 archive.
French comics publisher L’Association is showing some of Mazen Kerbaj’s drawings and that’s a good excuse to put up a link for them. Kerbaj’s blog, Kerblog, is here.
Check out Half-Life 1 and 2 in 60 seconds – with a just a few spoilers 😉
From a purely critical standpoint, Louis L’Amour’s The Walking Drum is a gruesome mess. It’s a historical novel that constantly hits the reader on the head with blocks of exposition. The hero, Kerbouchard, is not only a nigh-invulnerable fighter, he’s one of the finest scholars of the twelfth […]
Science Monster might not be pretty, but with monsters, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Two things are inside Science Monster that I really, really like: old pulps periodicals and comics and old audio like science fiction radio serials and the Peanuts, aka, the foot tall fairies from […]
“You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.” It’s the Pac-Man text adventure!