Wednesday, June 22, 2011

United States of Tara and Hellbound Hearts

I just realized that United States of Tara is over. FOREVER. I thought I was watching the season finale, not the SERIES FINALE. This bums me. I wanted some therapy for Tara, some happy endings. This ending just........is.  Tara and Max head off to another hospital to try to help her, and fade to black. Goodbye Tara, T, Alice, and Buck.

The episode in itself was a bit of a letdown. At the beginning of the episode Tara kills her alter Bryce, but nothing extraordinary happens. I would think this would be more of a breakthrough, or something.

I finished a book called "Hellbound Hearts", a bunch of short stories inspired by the Hellraiser series. Some stories were rather distasteful, others were pretty good. If you don't want to see how many different ways people can stumble upon bdsm demons and a puzzle box, just stay away from it.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Four Humors

I learned about this book on Cracked. It's a bunch of stories inspired by the four humors of the body: melancholic, choleric, sanguine, and phlegmatic. It sounds a little gross at first, but each section begins with an essay on that particular humor, and it explains the theme of the stories a little.

All of the authors and artists, if I'm not mistaken, come from Cracked, and they all came together to create this work of awesome when one of them apparently said "Hey, let's do a book for charity." And they did. Is that not awesome. The book is only 2.99, and it's WAY under-priced. WAYYYYYYY under-priced. I almost feel guilty.

The Four Humors