January 2010
Well, I'm back
As I mentioned earlier, December was a busy month. Those time-draining projects have all been brought to fruition, including a rewrite of Christ’s origin story I’m not sure I linked to from Tumblr when it first went live (but that’s been rectified, so whatever). To the credit of my followers, only 5 people dropped me due to my relative inactivity or because of an extreme distaste...
Best of 2009: Music →
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Choosing the best albums of 2009 is an endeavor fraught with peril. Great music has been legion, and delineating the greatest of the great is an entirely subjective process. While we hold no aspirations to compiling a definitive list, we hope we’ve made a representative one: where Grizzly Bear, Fever Ray, Bat For Lashes, Sunn O))), The Decemberists, …And You Will Know Us by the...
Best of 2009: Cinema →
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Several things strike us as we look back at the movies 2009 had to offer. If 2008 excelled at the comic book movie, 2009 was the year of the smart children’s film. Coraline, Up, Ponyo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Where The Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox almost made up for an atrocity like G-Force. It was also a good year for science fiction. Star Trek surprised...
December 2009
“Most serious news stories are peppered with information that is laughably false,...”
– Chuck Klosterman
Best of 2009: Television →
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Television shows that did not make this year’s cut: I’m a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here!, The Tyra Banks Show, The Singing Bee, Medium, America’s Funniest Home Videos, MadTV, Last Call with Carson Daly, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Criss Angel Mindfreak, How I Met Your Mother, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?,...
Best of Re:Generator in 2009: October, November... →
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2009 was not an easy year. In the midst of the worst economic crisis in living memory, certain adjustments had to be made. Some of our veteran writers posted less, or went off the grid altogether. Those who did stick around often had to contend with competing priorities, with writing for the love of writing trailing behind the need to have a roof over their heads and food in their...
Best of 2009: Comics →
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Maybe it’s because we’ve been in the trenches for so long, or maybe it’s because comic books have infiltrated popular culture to the point of banality, but much of the stigma once associated with being an adult who likes their stories in short, fully-illustrated bursts seems to have dissipated. Most people are now familiar with Spiderman, Batman, Iron Man and X-Men, whether they’re...
Best of 2009: Books →
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One can never heap too much praise upon a good public institution, such as the Multnomah Country Library system. Without depleting their own bank accounts, those given “library cards” can keep up to date on the latest fiction and nonfiction stories publishing houses have mass-produced in antiquated hard-bound sheafs of paper called “books”. These books, or “analog Kindles” as they...
“See the gray skies overhead, preparing the way
for the darkness soon to come....”
– A Celtic Yule Blessing
Best of Re:Generator in 2009: July, August and... →
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2009 was not an easy year. In the midst of the worst economic crisis in living memory, certain adjustments had to be made. Some of our veteran writers posted less, or went off the grid altogether. Those who did stick around often had to contend with competing priorities, with writing for the love of writing trailing behind the need to have a roof over their heads and food in their...
Best of Re:Generator in 2009: April, May and June →
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2009 was not an easy year. In the midst of the worst economic crisis in living memory, certain adjustments had to be made. Some of our veteran writers posted less, or went off the grid altogether. Those who did stick around often had to contend with competing priorities, with writing for the love of writing trailing behind the need to have a roof over their heads and food in their...
This Year in “Duh”, Ctd. →
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2009 may not have been the Republican Party’s finest hour, but it wasn’t like the Democratic Party was a shining beacon of integrity and intelligence, either. The party who owns the Hill sat on their hands as Rep. Chuck Rangel proved himself to be perhaps the most corrupt member of Congress, allowing him to keep his chairmanship on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee....