Archive for the ‘Media Menagerie’ Category

Let’s Read Steve Alten’s the Loch: Attack of the Strange Chapter Lengths

Chapter 2
Chapter 2 is but one page. Yes…one page.  What does that page consist of? Zach having internal prose before barfing up sea water in a medical center, of course! What couldn’t have prevented chapter 3 and 2 from being together but spaced with a “time bar” (the little asterisks preparing you for another scene)? [...]

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Let’s Read Steve Alten’s the Loch: In the Beginning

Hey again folks! I know there hasn’t really been another big RPG Reviews in a while, but I am trying to branch out in what I do in order to keep my attention span from falling by the wayside. As another new part of the site, I have a Let’s Read! Like a Let’s Play, [...]

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Rappy’s Random Ramblings: All Good Things Must Come to a Fail

Welcome to another Random Ramblings, folks! This time, I’ll be prodding around Cartoon Network, internet critics, and anime! Spoilers for Tower of Druaga and Soul Eater below the fold.

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Random Ramblings: Revenge of the Tapes

Spoilers for Primeval season 3 and One Piece below the fold.

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Rappy’s Monstrous Reviews: Introduction

Gasp! Is this a new idea from me? Yes, it is! Since Lost Tapes is over, I was thi nking to myself “hey, Rappy, what are you gonna do now other than RPG reviews? Certainly there’s something out there that you can look at on a similar note”. Then it hit me when I decided [...]

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Random Ramblings: Post-Net Crash Edition

I’m sorry that there was no review up early today; my electricity was out from 9:00 AM to around 2:00 PM, and then my internet’s been out since Tuesday morning and I’ve literally just gotten it back working a few minutes before I put this up. I’ll have the belated review up later, but for [...]

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What I learned from Lost Tapes ((Belated look at the 2-17-2009 Episodes))

What I learned from Part 1-Mongolian Death Worm

People can be big enough idiots to have ATV races in the Gobi Desert.
People can be big enough idiots to ride ATVs in the Gobi Desert without enough fuel.
Mongolian Death Worms bite people in the ass…repeatedly.
Mongolian Death Worms follow a single person around until they can kill them.
Mongolian [...]

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What I Learned From Today’s Lost Tapes

What I learned from Part 1-Skinwalker

Cowboys reactively say “damn” when a coyote howls.
A Native American man in a coyote skin elicits no more of a response than “oh, there are plenty of reservations around here”.
Joe “lake monster accounts are judged in terms of otters” Nickell pops up in the strangest places.
Skinwalkers are comparable to tadpoles [...]

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Lost Tapes-Megaconda and Thunderbird

It is that time again, folks! The Tuesday night of Lost Tapes!
Part 1-Megaconda
Oh no…oh no…they can’t be doing this again. The episode is on the Sucuriju Gigante, or Matatoro, a monstrous anaconda, and, the episode takes place in America! Our heroes this time are Scott and….some guy with glasses whose name was muffled when it [...]

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Lost Tapes-Cave Demons and Death Raptor

Oh yeah, here we go, this is the big one!
Part 1-Cave Demons
The show starts out talking about winged humanoids in Vietnam..then suddenly switches to the Tora Bora caves. Oh no, they can’t really be doing this..can they? Oh yes they can. First, there are “letters from home” of a woman and her baby talking to [...]

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