2008

Sortes Musica

The Romans had the Sortes Virgilianae, a form of bibliomancy by which fortunes were told by randomly...

25 Slimy DVDs

We lost the Ghostbusters video game last week. This week, I learned that TimeLife video is finally...

How I Feel Today

Ghostbusters: The Video Game is in limbo. Damn you Activision, for postponing the most promising...

Dude

Me: dude
Tracy: dude!
Me: DUDE!
Tracy: ... dude.
Me: duuuuuuuuuude.
Tracy: dude?
Me: dude.
Tracy: dude?!
Me: ...I've run out of punctuation marks but if we were doing this verbally, it could have gone on indefinitely

Offbeat

Tracy: You are diabolically amused by the strangest stuff
Me: Really?
Tracy: I didn't burst into laughter at that. I was like, "Ew." You were like, "Yay! Hahaha!"

The Gruesome Trophy

I had wisdom teeth removed recently and decided to commemorate it with a photograph. Click through...

Snow Knight

The number one grossing movie of all time is still Titanic. As of this moment, Snow White and the...

Just a Dog Chasing Cars

I saw it today. It was amazing. It exceeded my, frankly, incredibly high expectations. I can’t...

Batman Through the Years

When I found out that there was going to be a Batman gallery on the site, I thought of the terrible...

Viva Moostache!

My enthusiasm for a good mustache, particularly a good historical mustache, got out of control at...

Hellboy, Hellboy, Hellboy (Part 3)

Lastly, I did a review of the new video game, Hellboy: The Science of Evil. Not only do I wax...

Hellboy, Hellboy, Hellboy (Part 2)

Appearing exclusively on the NY Daily News website is my profile of Mike Mignola, creator of...

Hellboy, Hellboy, Hellboy (Part 1)

Today was Hellboy Day for the Daily News. I have a “With” credit on Ethan Sacks’...

An Endlessly Rewarding Commute

A man on the bus sitting next to me taps me on the shoulder insistently until I remove my headphones.
Man: How long does it take for radiation to kill a man?
Me: Uh...I think it depends on the type, duration and frequency of exposure.
Man: Ok, thanks.

Jack of Nothing's Wit and Wisdom

(While standing next to a red Suzuki motorcycle)
Passerby: Wow, dude, is that your motorcycle?
Me: That's not a motorcycle. That's a cherry red death trap.

Monkey Pants

My fellow News geek Ethan Sacks interviewed Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro during the NY...

Don't Lose Your Head

Coworker 1: Some kid got decapitated by a roller coaster.
Coworker 2: Did he die?
Coworker 1: ...decapitation usually ends in death, yes.

Stars in my Eyes

I just Googled my name, as I occassionally do, since I am in love with myself. I was rather shocked...

Central Dark

I’m a sucker for the Alone in the Dark games so I had to go to Atari and get a sneak peak....

Cutest Robot in the Universe

Seriously. I had the pleasure of checking out some demos of the Wall*E video game, and talked to...

Half

Bye Bye Gill-Man

Stan Winston died yesterday. So did part of my childhood. Click the Gill-Man to read the Variety...

Macrocosm

Epilogue

Stu: I just had one of my epic commutes.
Michael: What happened?
Stu: I just wrote it out in four parts on my blog.
moments later...
Michael: What the fuck?
Stu: Which part?

An Interesting Life (Part 4)

Oh, ladies and gentlemen. If only it was over. I get home and turn to pull in the drive way, but the...

An Interesting Life (Part 3)

The cop returns. “Have you ever been arrested, Stuart?” Oh. This night is going to be...

An Interesting Life (Part 2)

Off the bus, into the car. Still a bit shaken, I drive home. Halfway there, I’m pulled over...

An Interesting Life (Part 1)

Interesting in the so-called Chinese sense. The bus depot. There’s a yellow guard rail where...

Urbanite

Michael: You much into camping?
Stu: Is that a question that really needs asking?

The Devil, You Say

Last night, I was minding my own business, walking to the Port Authority on my journey home when I...

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Venture Forth

Don't Laugh. I'm Serious.

Charles: http://www.timelooptheory.com
Stu: I've seen this Lost theory.
Stu: But it doesn't have anything about Atlantean Technomagic, so its bunk.

“They stopped letting us say Mofo.”
— Jackson Publick, on the arcane...

False Advertising

Having gotten past the lack of bike messengers and immersed myself in the surprisingly complex and...

“I told ya they was wimps.”
— Ajax, The Warriors

Starkweather Weekly Mux

Everyone loves covers and this week, you have twelve of them. Pay attention to the horns in the...

“In African Genesis, Robert Ardrey mentions an example that seems to me a conclusive argument...

It'd be an Honor

Terry: Can you believe he's pregnant?!?
Stu: I can not. Poor bastard.
Terry: I heard he's gonna name it after you.
Stu: Now why would you name a kid "Asshole?"

State of the Music Collection

My Creative Zen mp3 player, which up to this point has never had a problem, decided to shit the bed...

The Wine Dark Seas

I began to read The Occult by Colin Wilson today, a mammoth chronicle of his research into all...

The Starkweather Weekly Mux

Theseus and the Minotaur, an illustration by Edward Gorey...

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“Ask the question that really matters.”
— Christian Shepherd, Lost

Unmanned

Stu: What do you think of the new aftershave?
Jill: Its very manly. Very unlike you.

Ephemera

I’ve decided to use A Touch of Oblivion as a place to share scans of the countless bits of...

Alcoholic Hopeful

The Professor: You're never happy
Stu: You only say that because you only see me sober

Trent Unbound

The Problem with Grand Theft Auto IV

It’s been a week since anticipation for GTAIV reached its fever pitch and the game was finally...

Iron Man is a Fascist

Ethan: Downey Jr. = amazing
Ethan: Stu Horvath = wrong

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Moo.

Last week, I ordered two sets of postcards of my own photos from Moo. I’m not sure what cows...

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“A hideous ecstasy of fear, a desire to kill, to torture, to...”
— George Orwell on the Two...

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable...”
— Edgar Allen Poe, The Masque of...

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Previous Pieces

Clips from the New York Daily News that predate A Touch of Oblivion.Moonlight FansLost's 15 Best...

The History of the Flash

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