2008

Aug

Sortes Musica

The Romans had the Sortes Virgilianae, a form of bibliomancy by which fortunes were told by randomly...
Aug 8th

25 Slimy DVDs

We lost the Ghostbusters video game last week. This week, I learned that TimeLife video is finally...
Aug 5th

Jul

How I Feel Today

Ghostbusters: The Video Game is in limbo. Damn you Activision, for postponing the most promising...
Jul 31st

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
Jul 29th

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!"
Jul 24th

The Gruesome Trophy

I had wisdom teeth removed recently and decided to commemorate it with a photograph. Click through...
Jul 22nd

Snow Knight

The number one grossing movie of all time is still Titanic. As of this moment, Snow White and the...
Jul 22nd

Just a Dog Chasing Cars

I saw it today. It was amazing. It exceeded my, frankly, incredibly high expectations. I can’t...
Jul 16th

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...
Jul 14th

Viva Moostache!

My enthusiasm for a good mustache, particularly a good historical mustache, got out of control at...
Jul 10th

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...
Jul 6th

Hellboy, Hellboy, Hellboy (Part 2)

Appearing exclusively on the NY Daily News website is my profile of Mike Mignola, creator of...
Jul 6th

Hellboy, Hellboy, Hellboy (Part 1)

Today was Hellboy Day for the Daily News. I have a “With” credit on Ethan Sacks’...
Jul 6th

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.
Jul 5th

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.
Jul 2nd

Jun

Monkey Pants

My fellow News geek Ethan Sacks interviewed Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro during the NY...
Jun 30th

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.
Jun 30th

Stars in my Eyes

I just Googled my name, as I occassionally do, since I am in love with myself. I was rather shocked...
Jun 25th

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....
Jun 24th

Cutest Robot in the Universe

Seriously. I had the pleasure of checking out some demos of the Wall*E video game, and talked to...
Jun 24th
Half
Jun 18th

Bye Bye Gill-Man

Stan Winston died yesterday. So did part of my childhood. Click the Gill-Man to read the Variety...
Jun 16th
Macrocosm
Jun 16th

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?
Jun 5th

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...
Jun 5th

An Interesting Life (Part 3)

The cop returns. “Have you ever been arrested, Stuart?” Oh. This night is going to be...
Jun 5th

An Interesting Life (Part 2)

Off the bus, into the car. Still a bit shaken, I drive home. Halfway there, I’m pulled over...
Jun 5th

An Interesting Life (Part 1)

Interesting in the so-called Chinese sense. The bus depot. There’s a yellow guard rail where...
Jun 5th

Urbanite

Michael: You much into camping?
Stu: Is that a question that really needs asking?
Jun 5th

The Devil, You Say

Last night, I was minding my own business, walking to the Port Authority on my journey home when I...
Jun 4th
Listen Listen
Call Me Phantom, by Celebrity Murder PartyI generally think that mash-ups are a hit or miss affair,...
Jun 3rd
Venture Forth
Jun 1st

May

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.
May 30th
“They stopped letting us say Mofo.”
— Jackson Publick, on the arcane...
May 29th

False Advertising

Having gotten past the lack of bike messengers and immersed myself in the surprisingly complex and...
May 27th
May 26th
“I told ya they was wimps.”
— Ajax, The Warriors
May 26th
May 21st

Starkweather Weekly Mux

Everyone loves covers and this week, you have twelve of them. Pay attention to the horns in the...
May 20th
“In African Genesis, Robert Ardrey mentions an example that seems to me a conclusive argument...
May 17th

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?"
May 14th

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...
May 13th

The Wine Dark Seas

I began to read The Occult by Colin Wilson today, a mammoth chronicle of his research into all...
May 13th
The Starkweather Weekly Mux
May 12th
Theseus and the Minotaur, an illustration by Edward Gorey...
May 11th
May 11th
Listen Listen
Koyaanisqatsi, by Philip Glass
May 9th
“Ask the question that really matters.”
— Christian Shepherd, Lost
May 9th

Unmanned

Stu: What do you think of the new aftershave?
Jill: Its very manly. Very unlike you.
May 9th
May 9th
May 8th

Ephemera

I’ve decided to use A Touch of Oblivion as a place to share scans of the countless bits of...
May 8th
May 8th

Alcoholic Hopeful

The Professor: You're never happy
Stu: You only say that because you only see me sober
May 8th
May 7th
Trent Unbound
May 6th

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...
May 6th

Iron Man is a Fascist

Ethan: Downey Jr. = amazing
Ethan: Stu Horvath = wrong
May 5th
The Weekly Starkweather Mux
May 5th

Moo.

Last week, I ordered two sets of postcards of my own photos from Moo. I’m not sure what cows...
May 2nd
Listen Listen
Discipline, by Nine Inch Nails. A brand new free single downloaded direct from the official site....
May 2nd
“A hideous ecstasy of fear, a desire to kill, to torture, to...”
— George Orwell on the Two...
May 2nd
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable...”
— Edgar Allen Poe, The Masque of...
May 2nd
Listen Listen
 Killing Joke - Seeing Red (Jagz Kooner Remix)
May 1st

Previous Pieces

Clips from the New York Daily News that predate A Touch of Oblivion.Moonlight FansLost's 15 Best...
May 1st

Apr

The History of the Flash
Apr 30th
The Weekly Starkweather Mux
Apr 30th
Apr 30th