Let me begin by saying that this week’s cold open was a wonderful representation of the show as a well-run ensemble comedy. Max and Caroline are ragging on Has as usual, yes, but he retorts, and Oleg and Earl are not far behind with their own comments. It’s light, snappy, and most importantly funny. Considering that I’m more than likely going to be reviewing this into the next year, this is the show I want to be watching every Monday night. Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Broke Girls, And the Tip Slip, Beth Behrs, Caroline, CBS, cheesecake, Current Total, Earl, expose, funny, Google penis alert, Han, hot stones, Jennifer Coolidge, Kat Dennings, Martin Channing, massage, Matthew Moy, Maury Povich, Max, MORE STONES, Oleg, penis, physical humour, Pier 1 Imports, Piers Morgan, review, S2E23, Sandra Rosenthal, SNL, Sophie, spa, Steven Weber, Taran Killam, television, TV, visual gag, vuvuzela
As some of you know, I review the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls every Monday night. I do so mostly because The A.V. Club has dropped it from its reviewed shows, and partly because it brings in the hits. This past episode featured the following exchange between Korean diner owner [he’s Korean, the diner is not] Han Lee, played by Matthew Moy, and casting director Tom, played by Eddie Shin:
Before you ask, yes, I put the video together myself.
The reason this struck me is that it highlights a humorous turn of events that I’ve observed more than once. As I mentioned in my review, Shin’s character’s response echoes, almost word for word, that of Howling Commando Jim Morita, played by Kenneth Choi in Captain America: The First Avenger:
Yes, I put that clip together as well. Sorry for the out-of-sync sound. Continue reading
Posted in America, Asia, film, race, television
Tagged asian, Asian-American, assimilation, Captain America: The First Avenger, CBS, Chinese, comfort, Dum Dum Dugan, Eddie Shin, film, Han Lee, Howling Commandos, Japanese, Jim Morita, Kenneth Choi, Korean, Matthew Moy, Nisei, Olympus Has Fallen, race, racism, Red Dawn, television, threat, Tom, Xenophobia, yellow peril
EVAN: Two weeks ago our good friend Stew said:
You should write about indie game development and how it’s changing the industry.
And so, after avoiding the topic for a little while, here we are.
GORDON: For the sake of any readers who might not be familiar with what an “indie game” is, while definitions vary, the general consensus is that an “indie game” is any video game developed outside of the major/mainstream video game industry (sometimes called “Triple A”).
EVAN: A pretty good example of this would be Braid. A more well-known example that you’ve probably at least heard about [and that both Gordon and I have played a decent amount of] is Minecraft.
Posted in video games
Tagged Community, custom weapons, development, digital literacy, elder scrolls, fan, gaming, independent, indie game, indie games, minecraft, open source, skyrim, steam, studio, sugestion, team fortress 2, tf2, triple a, Valve, video game, video game development, video game industry, video gaming
Fair warning, I attended a screening of Iron Man 3 tonight in order to write a review for a children’s magazine. I enjoyed it a lot. I am not sure how my enjoyment of that movie will affect my opinions of this episode.
We start things off with a cake literally out of carrots, so colour me interested from the outset. Then Max jokes about how she and Chestnut [their horse] should one day get the same rights as gay couples, and Caroline admits to subway molestation as being an acceptable poor man’s version of an actual massage. Oof. Maybe I should have waited a day before writing this. Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, race, review, television
Tagged 2 Broke Girls, And the Extra Work, Asian brother, Beth Behrs, Caroline, casting director, CBS, cheesecake, Chestnut, copstitutes, cupcake business, Current Total, Earl, Eddie Shin, Extra, Fresca, Han, Jennifer Coolidge, Kat Dennings, Korean, Matthew Moy, Max, Oleg, review, S2E21, sex, Shake Weight, Skank and Funk, Sophie, SVU, television, TV
The fact that I got home and remembered the title of this post, but not what exactly DC got wrong is not a good sign. Sorry, let me rephrase that. It was difficult for me to remember which PR catastrophe DC pulled off to warrant me finally dedicating a Shame Day to them.
Today [I am writing this on Monday night] is a dark day in comic book news because one of my all time favourite sites, ComicsAlliance, is no more. That doesn’t have anything to do with this post, but I needed to take the time to mention those writers and the years they dedicate to that site. It was nominated for an Eisner; come on, AOL.
That horrific news was followed up by the announcement by fellow comic book site The Outhouse that they had been blacklisted by DC. Continue reading
Posted in art, bizarreness, business, comics, internet, media, news, Shame Day
Tagged Andy Diggle, Axel Alonso, Axel-In-Charge, B&B, Bob Harras, Bobbie Chase, CBR, colourists, Comic Book Resources, comics, ComicsAlliance, DC, DC Comics, editorial, Gail Simone, interview, Jerry Ordway, Joshua Fialkov, marketing rep, Marvel, PR, the A.V. Club, The Outhouse
Gordon and I only just talked about fan fiction two days ago, but in debating its merits managed to avoid much conversation about its place in our world today. To begin with, the topic was first brought up by Marilyn in her comment on our reactions to easy-money shows, and she specifically mentioned Anne Rice.
For those of you who don’t know, Anne Rice became famous for writing vampire novels decades before the Twilight books came out [and a few centuries after Bram Stoker’s most well-known work]. She also had a very particular stance on fan fiction, which I have pulled from an old archived version of her site:
“I do not allow fan fiction.
The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters.
It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.” Continue reading
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Tagged 50 Shades of Grey, A Study in Emerald, Abigail Gibbs, Anne Rice, arthur conan doyle, Bruce Banner, craft, creative property, Cuthulhu, deviantART, Dracula, fan fiction, fan fiction writers, fanfiction.net, ficiton, H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Potter, literature, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Masters of the Universe, Neil Gaiman, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, prose, public domain, publishing, Science Bros, Seth Grahame-Smith, Sherlock Holmes, ship, slash, smut, Spider-Man, story, style, Superman, technical, The Dark Heroine, Tony Stark, Tumblr, twilight, victorian, videogames, writing
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