So wait, this show has a quarterfinals now? When did this happen? Did they call Week 8 the quarterfinals last year and I just forgot about it? Have they been calling Week 8 the quarterfinals for the entirety of the show's run, and I'm finally noticing it now? I guess I'm not surprised, since as … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Pastry Week
Obscure Metal Roundup VII
Vulture – Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves (Released 2019) Thrash throwback purveyors Vulture have been around for a few years, and over the course of those years they have both flashed tremendous potential and frustrated me for not fully capitalizing on that potential. Their 2016 EP Victim of the Blade is utterly fantastic; all killer, … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup VII
AEW: Thoughts and Observations
AEW Dynamite has aired three episodes as of now, and I have some thoughts. Some are positive, others are more critical, and some are neither. They are presented below in no particular order. -First and foremost, the wrestling itself has been awesome. Obviously, the promise of a more wrestling-centric presentation was a key element of … Continue reading AEW: Thoughts and Observations
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Festival Week
(Note: I'm starting in with spoilers from the jump this week, so prepare yourself!) Has this been a weird season for the Great British Baking Show? I've seen and heard many comments to that effect, and this intrigues me because I too feel that this season has been weird, but when I stop to think … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Festival Week
Obscure Metal Roundup VI
REZN – Calm Black Water (Released 2018) Stoner metal is rather self-evidently concerned with creating huge, monolithic soundscapes, and with nailing the attendant atmospherics. The less immediately obvious but just as salient upshot of this is that sometimes these bands take this commitment a bit too far by dedicating whole entire tracks – long ones, … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup VI
Programming Note – 10/11/19
Due to a variety of factors (namely exhaustion, technical difficulties, and laziness), Obscure Metal Roundup VI will not go up until early next week. Remember to make sure your chargers are actually plugged in, everybody. Young Bucks vs. Private Party (AEW Dynamite, 10/9/19): ****3/4
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Desserts Week
If you're like me, you are a perpetual prisoner to your own ignorance. Despite my best efforts, every season I've seen of the Great British Baking Show has featured a week called 'Desserts Week' or something similar, and every time I see this I think to myself, “But like, at least 85% of everything made … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Desserts Week
A Brief Word on Hell in A Cell
In case you missed it, this past Sunday WWE ran their annual (hold this thought) Hell In a Cell show, which is themed around the Hell in a Cell match; for those of you who don't watch wrestling, imagine a stell cage match, except the cage itself is larger and has a closed-off roof. Historically, … Continue reading A Brief Word on Hell in A Cell
Obscure Metal Roundup V
Gehennah – Too Drunk to Live, Too Drunk to Die (Released 2016) Hat tip to Paul for this one. I have made the conscious decision to eschew lyrical analysis in this column, by and large. There a few reasons for this. I am largely out of my depth in doing so, having not done much … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup V
Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Roaring 20’s Week
Being a baker on Great British Baking Show seems not entirely unlike being a contestant on Jeopardy!. If you're a contestant on Jeopardy!, there are a handful of topics you want to be pretty familiar with going in. You'll need to know every U.S. President and the years he held the office, and the more … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Roaring 20’s Week
