Little Old Me

Recipient of the Most Evilest Villian Award, July 12 2004

Let's all sing the DOOM song! <insert about 50,000 dooms here>

Although I'm a fan of Jhonen Vasquez's "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" comics, I never really gave Invader Zim a good look through. Then, through the miracle of DVD players, I was given a rather impressive introduction. Zim is one of the greatest cartoon villians ever: campier than Izma (Emporer's New Groove), more ruthless than the Decepticons (Transformers), more sex appeal than Skeletor (He-Man) and has a maniacal laughter that makes Darth Vader jealous. Zim is the over-zealous, ruthless super-space invader who has proven that he's just a little too battle-hungry for his own good.

I don't mean to be preaching to… Read more

An Elegant Vampire Twist, Jun 22 2004

Gilda begins her tales as a nameless runaway slave in Louisiana during the 1850's. This, however, is only the precursor to Jewelle Gomez's fantastic collection of a refreshing take on the fabled vampire. The subject matter captivated me at first - a novel about a black lesbian vampire in the 1850's, but I found that first impressions can be deceiving and that The Gilda Stories was much more than a series of horror fiction. Jewelle Gomez sets up a much different hierarchy of the vampiric world - where vampires are humane noble creatures, who only kill in self-defense, only take the blood they need and always leave something in exchange. One will find that the true victims in The Gilda… Read more

Not So Sexually Frustrated, Jun 22 2004

When the narrator says, "The man of my dreams is a man I've never met ...", I thought to myself - its all coming together now. Jameson Currier's latest collection of fiction seeks out to exploit that very indecisive and fickle nature of men. DESIRE LUST PASSION SEX is an extremely well written, entertaining and poignant collection of short fiction in which the male ego is placed under a literary microscope and dissected right before the reader's eyes. The book features nineteen short stories, many of which have been previously published in erotica anthologies and gay men's fiction journals.

Jameson Currier's stories are diverse and enigmatic as he treats all his topics with genuine… Read more