I’m kinda freaking out here. My world was shaken to the core yesterday when I found out that Disney bought Marvel Comics. The initial reaction was shock, but now it’s time to try to decipher what this means for my awesome addiction to comic books and everything Marvel. Read the rest of this entry »

Words by Matthew Mundy

In an exercise of self-flagellation, I decided to watch the entire MTV Video Music Awards last night. It was a thoroughly injudicious decision, the result of a mind driven idiotically reckless by unemployment, a heat wave and being forced to wait too long for Killer Mike’s Sunday Morning Massacre. On the bright side, I learned a lot about myself, pop culture, and spiritual, physical and mental ennui. On the dark side, I had to watch the Jonas Brothers. In the spirit of the election season, I’ll let you decide whether the forces of good or evil won in the end.

The following are 15 things that I learned during the MTV VMAs.

1. Don’t write three-hour, mind-numbingly boring, spirit-sucking, spontaneous vasectomy-causing checks your ass can’t cash.

2. Britney Spears is relevant again to someone other than her divorce lawyer and weave maker. In all honesty though, she does look a helluva lot better than she did last year.

3. For every night with a big winner, there has to be a big loser. Those, of course, would be the loyal TSSers who subjected themselves to this unyielding, bone-stripping sadism along with me. Brothers in misery and degradation, I s’pose. Like the Wayans brothers.

4. The other big winner? Lil’ Wayne.

Dude – who was, from all appearances, sober – absolutely ripped through both performances. First, he mashes up “Misunderstood,” “A Milli” and “Got Money.” In white jeans. And absolutely disembowels all three. Then he does a duet with Kid Rock, and steals the show again. Before this show, Lil’ Wayne was a genuine Hip-Hop superstar, with 1.05 million records sold in Tha Carter III’s first week on shelves. Now, he’s a genuine music superstar. Whether you like Weezy or not, this was a good moment for Hip-Hop. Kudos, good sir.

5. The ‘Depends On How You Look At It’ performer? Kanye West. Read the rest of this entry »