Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has yet to kill anyone, but could it end up murdering the Broadway Flop? No show in Broadway history has ever battled through such a dizzying array of troubles as Spider-Man: Turn Off Dark. The buzz hasn’t just been bad, it’s been genocidal.  And like the war in Afghanistan or The [...]

“The Ancient Greeks reserved a special word for the sort of arrogance that makes you forget your own humanity. That word was Hubris.” — From an introductory essay included in the Playbill of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Note to Julie Taymor, Bono and The Edge: When creating a $65 million dollar musical beset by [...]

Fierce Anticipation’s 1st Annual Macabre, Morbid, Miserly, and somewhat Murderous Christmas Reading List of 22 Books Selected at Random by Me, Ryan Dixon Need a gift for that not-so-special someone? Read on to discover the perfectly inappropraite book for every Christmas occasion after the gallery… For those who’d rather eat a reindeer than ride one: [...]

Conventional wisdom has it that Thanksgiving is the one day where family and friends reunite, reconnect, and relapse over a grocery-store-bought feast of turkey, stuffing and wine. Football is watched. Happy tears are shed. Everlasting memories are made. Balderdash. Come on, admit it, if I put a gun to your head, would you be able [...]

INTRODUCTION TO THE 2010 EDITION: Why Me? How did an always poor, mostly anonymous and only occasionally witty blogumnist living in Burbank, CA suddenly find himself as the protagonist in a real-life, 21st century Horatio Alger novel? During the past three weeks I’ve been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, my voice was heard on [...]

If you’re stuck in the office today, try not to blast this. Though, I know you’ll be tempted… From April 8, 2009 Saturday Night Live is pretty much dead to me. Mainly because it’s been ridiculously unfunny since the election ended, but also because I can no longer stay up that late. So big thanks [...]

What better way to end our two week of re-runs than with my original Fierce and Nerdy post? This has been an AWESOME two-week clip show. Thank you all so much for reading and re-reading our FaN Favorites. See you next Tuesday when we unveil the site redesign! From September 7, 2008 Ask not what [...]

. Proof of Nerd ID by Charles Cron HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, FaN! YOU’RE IN THE TOP 6%! EDITION According to an estimate in Harper’s Weekly, 94% of all blogs worldwide have not been updated in the last 4 months.

. a favorite blogumn by Zack Bunker Zack Says: I love a good creepy All-American product as much as the next guy, but when i saw these things dangling off a truck in front of me I was stopped in my tracks. The fact that this product even exists and is amazingly popular just makes [...]