Teens

Black Heart Procession
The Black Heart Procession was formed by Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel (of Three Mile Pilot) in San Diego in 1997. The original idea was not to form an actual band... (read more)

Placebo
Placebo were my favourite band from 1997 'til about 2001. My first memory of Placebo is seeing an interview with Brian Molko (guitar/vocals) on MTV. The interview didn't... (read more)

Smashing Pumpkins
The story of the Smashing Pumpkins begins in the late '80s in Chicago. The Pumpkins first began to really take shape in 1988 when Billy Coragn (guitar/vocals) met... (read more)

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Avengers
Collecting the first four issues of the current (third) volume of the Avengers comic book series, the main point of the storyline was putting together a new team of Avengers... (read more)

JLA
Collecting the first four issues of the current JLA series, New World Order begins with the arrival of the Hyperclan, a group of super-powered aliens who have come to... (read more)

Comics: A Personal History
My earliest memory of comics is finding a small pile of them in my basement when I was kid (about 5/6). There were a couple of issues of Avengers... (read more)

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Cryptozoology
What is cryptozoology? The term "cryptozoology" was created in the 1950's by Bernard Heuvelmans from the Greek roots zoon (animal) and logos (discourse), and the prefix... (read more)

Japanese Culture
My first exposure to Japanese culture (and probably that of most kids of my era) was in the form of cartoon shows like Voltron (a cross between two Japanese cartoons... (read more)

Life On Venus?
Hypothesis: Could modern man have originated on Venus, having colonised the Earth after the greenhouse effect had taken too much of a toll and they knew that... (read more)

Who Is John Titor?
So I was thinking about time-travel, and I thought if time-travel were to ever be possible wouldn't we know by now? I mean, wouldn't someone have come back in time... (read more)

Worldly Observations

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