In a late night announcement that sent the hearts of comic book nerds everywhere into arrhythmia, Marvel Studios and Sony Entertainment announced late last night that Spider-Man will be joining Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the details of the deal aren’t public, through various leaks and rumors it’s possible to put together an idea of what the deal looks like. Continue reading
Biz Monkie
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Cop blanche
/käp blänSH/
noun
1. Complete freedom of police officers to do as they wish against the people, even committing crimes or violating their constitutional and legal rights, without repercussion.
The last two weeks have seen a pair of high profile grand juries fail to return indictments on police officers that utilized lethal force on unarmed suspects. In the 1987 novel Bonfire Of The Vanities, author Tom Wolfe quotes New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler, saying “a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, if that’s what you wanted.” Continue reading
It wouldn’t be election season in America without a special edition of the Once Daily Sausage. With most of the results now in the books, it’s time to slice open the electorate’s meaty casing and see which pig parts made it into our national pork product. Continue reading
With South Park now taking on freemium (FM) (the -mium is Latin for “not really”) and free-to-play (F2P) gaming, it’s safe to say that the concept has officially entered the cultural zeitgeist. Considering the number of people I know of that play FM/F2P games, a quick primer on these kinds of games seems like it’s in order. Continue reading
On February 20th, 2014, Matt Taibbi sent shockwaves through the media landscape, announcing that he was leaving his long-time position at Rolling Stone for a new venture working alongside Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras. Although Taibbi’s site has yet to launch, he has had time to finish and release his newest book “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Bayhem returns to the summer movie slate in the form of the the fourth entry in the Transformers franchise. How does the latest entry fare compared to its predecessors? Read on to find out. Continue reading
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, he pulls the spitting high tension wires down!
Helpless people on a subway train, scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them!
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down as he wades through the buildings toward the center of town!
Oh no, they say he’s got to go! Go go Godzilla!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo! Go go Godzilla!
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men!
Godzilla! Continue reading
After a long, cold winter, mostly devoid of movies I’m actually interested in seeing, we’re about a month away from the start of the summer blockbuster movie season. We’ve got a slightly less crowded docket than usual this year with superheroes, AI’s, giant monsters, giant robots, and a talking raccoon, so let’s get right down to it.
Welcome to Biz Monkie’s Midnight Movie Reviews Summer 2014 Movie Preview! Continue reading
Over the last eight months I’ve built an organization from the ground up, consisting of nearly 300 members spread all over the world. I’ve had to choose team leaders, assign and delegate tasks, recruit, deal with challenges posed by my superiors, make sure the people reporting to me get the resources they need to do their jobs, and manage interpersonal conflicts, all while completing my own goals and objectives.
If I put that on my resume as management experience, most recruiters and hiring managers would go “Wow, that’s pretty impressive.” The problem isn’t the job description. Rather, it’s the job title: Guild Leader. Continue reading
Michelangelo and da Vinci were true Renaissance Men; skilled sculptors, painters, architects, and engineers. However, their great works did not come into existence purely by the waving of hands. They, like every man before them, stretching back to the creation of fire and the wheel, relied on tools to bring their vision to reality. It is in that spirit that we move on to discuss the implements of creation, the tools of the trade.
Crack open your toolbox and get a hardware store on speed dial. I am… THE HOBBYIST. Continue reading