Day: November 12, 2015

News & Upcoming Events

One Hardcover, With Bonus Feline

The limited edition Flotsam Omnibus hardcovers are officially a thing that exists in the world. Apocalypse Ink posted an image of them on the twitters, complete with bonus cat: The limited edition hardback of THE FLOTSAM Trilogy by @Petermball has arrived and it’s gorgeous! pic.twitter.com/9qHDTyYDf0 — Apocalypse Ink (@ApocalypseInk) November 11, 2015 Release date is November 18, which is so tantalizingly close, people. If you need me, I’ll be over here, wiping the drool off my chin. And feeling the sting of shame that comes from finally posting cat pics to my blog in a blatant attempt to pander to the internet…

Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption

Humor, Intimacy, and Master of None

I’m jumping on a plane to Melbourne later today, so today’s post is short and sweet.If you’ve got netflix, then do this one thing. Go Watch Master of None. I’ll admit, I started off kinda eh on the show. The first episode was good, but it didn’t have that zing that made me want to sit and mainline the entire series in one go. Disappointing, ‘cause Aziz Ansari is smart and funny, and I had some high hopes, but…yeah. No biggie. There’s no shortage of stuff on Netflix. Except, at this point, I’ve mainlined so much stuff on Netflix that the stuff that the obvious choices have basically been winnowed down to a handful of options. So, a little over twenty-four hours later, I fired up the second episode and… Yeah. There it was. The zing. Except it quickly moved beyond that. It moved into the terrain I refer to as Holy Fuck. Screw the zing – this show is so