Ruins of the Unmuseum
September 21, 2011 · Canada, Greece, Iraq, World Ruins · 1 Comment 

The Unmuseum (AKA the Museum of Unnatural Mystery) is like an online Ripley’s Believe It or Not, stuffed full of myth, ruin, and intrepid history ranging from tales of pterosaurs in Texas to mechanical computers built before the birth of…

Orange Injection Candy
September 19, 2011 · Food / Drink, Japan · 3 Comments 

Drugs designed for kids often taste like candy. I remember getting to love the taste of the cold remedy Sudafed, and looking forward to taking it- lovely goopy syrupy sugar. If I could’ve chugged it freestyle, I very well might…

Ruins of The Secret World

There is a city on the moon. 11 days are missing. The Earth is hollow. The tower of Babel never fell. These are just a few of the many premises of The Secret World, a stunning new MMORPG game that…

The Ruins of Nuclear Winter
September 14, 2011 · Apocalypse, Art Ruins, Fantasy Ruins, Nuclear · 1 Comment 

Nuclear winter slathered down across the world like a rain of torrential lead paint, bowing our cities beneath it. Ceilings and structures collapsed under the deluge, walls crumbled, and humanity was washed away by a tide of toxic white sludge….

Japan’s sexy Coca Cola
September 12, 2011 · Food / Drink, Japan · 3 Comments 

It’s not often this site gets sexy. Occasionally you’ll get your dabblings in Coppertone bikini girls or your Girls Generation Cheetos, but never explicitly sexy. Here though we’ll get explicit. We’ll get sexy. If you’re a minor, avert your gaze….

The Ruins of Ender’s Game
September 10, 2011 · Book Ruins, Fantasy Ruins, Giant Beasts · Comment 

Orson Scott Card’s brilliant novel Ender’s Game is not widely known for its ruins. You’re rather more likely to read it and be blown away by the sheer force of Ender’s personality, by the twisted morality of the story’s central…

story craft #16 Flash-forward Openings
September 8, 2011 · Story Craft, Writing · Comment 

What do you think about stories that open with flash-forwards? Consider the movie Fight Club. Ed Norton brandishes a gun and conducts a bizarre conversation with Brad Pitt. They are in a dimly lit skyscraper looking out over a city’s…

Why Cars 2 sucked.
September 7, 2011 · Book / Movie Reviews · Comment 

Recently I saw a photograph of utter Thanksgiving Day excess: a duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey, slit down through the breast so the meats looked like various layers of sedimentary rock. It was gross, a perversion…

Girl’s Generation Cheetos
September 5, 2011 · Food / Drink, Japan, People / Culture · 8 Comments 

Girls Generation is a big news 9-member pop group from South Korea. They are currently breaking into Japan and other Asian countries in a major way. This can be seen in their cute same-looking legs gracing the covers of many…

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