Author: Heath Andrews

The history of popular music has a long list of actors who have tried being a singer or musician. The results have been… mixed, we’re going to say mixed. Quite a few of them have actually scored some hits, Bruce Willis and Don Johnson for example hit the top 10 with “Express Yourself” and “Heartbeat” respectively. The same can’t be said for William Shatner, but he’s giving it a shot again with an album of metal covers. William Shatner’s Musical History When people think about Shatner singing, what often comes to mind is his performance of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”…

A wise philosopher once stated that “life moves fast.” They were right. In the hectic news cycle that we all live in, stories come and go and may not stick around in our heads for too long. That’s why we wanted to take a moment to go back and revisit something that happened almost 10 years ago now. It was a different time then, but not so different that anyone would’ve accepted that a bank robbery would be a good idea for a first date. It was early December and the holiday season was getting into full swing in Rhode…

The internet loves a good mystery. The internet actually kind of loves any mystery whether it’s good or not. Take for example a picture of the wrestler Sting reading a Far Side comic and having a good laugh at it. It’s humorous seeing a hulking mass of wrestling muscle chuckling at a cartoon, but what one was he laughing at? The world needs to know, what Gary Larson creation led to this reaction? The internet has pretty much narrowed it down. In a series of posts on Bluesky, Cow Tools Daily (an account name that’s a direct reference to an…

It’s been 31 years since Nintendo’s much maligned Virtual Boy came to the market. Much has been written about the console’s massive failure just as there has been considerable conjecture about what Nintendo was thinking. Between the allegations of it potentially damaging children’s eyes, being a horribly non-portable portable system, and the red and black LED display, people didn’t have a lot of good things to say about it. Now, with Nintendo resurrecting the console via the Nintendo Switch Online and separately purchasable peripheral, it’s back. And after the time I’ve spent with it, I feel like we were way…

We are living in strange times. The video game industry has not been doing well and the cracks are showing in various places. Developers continue to lay people off or close entire divisions, high profile games are getting cancelled, the retro game market is seeing prices surging, and current console and computer hardware are seeing price increases too. So far, Nintendo is the only major console manufacturer that hasn’t increased the price of their latest hardware, but rumors are abound that this is set to change. Nintendo Switch 2 Price Rumors Explained When the Switch 2 released on June 5th,…

In 2014 the first “John Wick” took theaters by storm, revitalized the career of Keanu Reeves, and brought stylized actions films back into the cultural zeitgeist. The character of John Wick combined marital arts and gunplay in a thrilling way. It spawned a number of sequels and spin-offs but never really entered into a realm that it seemed tailor made for, video games. Sure, we had John Wick Hex, but that was more of a tactical game, and the VR titles were limited in scope. All that is going to change. The New John Wick Game Announcement In last week’s…

When Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) ended its initial run in 1999, it was the end of a comedic legend. The show had changed hosts, some cast members, and networks but still survived to be one of the funniest shows in television history. It has the rare distinction of also being one of those shows that delivered some of its best episodes in its final years. Then, years later, the show was revitalized by Netflix in 2017 and 2018 and it was… fine? Then we had another MST3K revival in 2022 which was also, uh, fine? And still we have…

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: there’s a horror movie about a giant snake in the rain forests of the Amazon. Yeah, we’ve heard it too, it’s the film “Anaconda.” The film has a legacy that is equal parts reverence and ridiculousness. Given the fear of snakes that exists in so many people though, there’s still something to mine there for films. That’s why production began on a similarly themed film called “Titan,” it’s just not being called that anymore. Movie producer Jeremy Bolt had read an article about a prehistoric snake known as the Titanoboa. It’s allegedly the…

Well there’s a headline we never saw coming! How often do you get to talk about alien existence and the president commenting on them? It’s one thing when a celebrity comments on alien existence; lord bless Dan Aykroyd but he doesn’t exactly radiate authority like a president does. So, when President Barack Obama recently stated on a podcast that aliens are real, it elicited a LOT of reaction. Here’s what he said. The former president appeared on a podcast by Brian Tyler Cohen and was asked “Are aliens real?” His response, “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.” He then…

Scandals and accusations of cheating are nothing new to the Olympics. For decades there have been allegations of corrupt judges, doping, other drugs, abuse, and entire countries finding ways to cheat. But if there was one sport in the event line-up that we thought was relatively scandal free, it was curling. It looks like we were wrong. Curling is where someone tosses a rock across the ice while people wipe the ice in front pathway with brooms. It’s actually a highly strategic and exacting sport where the slightest movement and variation in the ice can dramatically impact the way a…