On Wednesday morning, February 22, 2012, Todd (a.k.a Master Torgo) lost his father. The entire Ugly Couch Show family wishes to express their condolences to Todd, his mother and the entire Bristow family as their road over the next few weeks will understandably be a difficult one. I, 80’s Jeff, have known this family for… Continue reading Loss in the Family
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Remembering 9/11 at Star Trek: The Experience
I remember waking for work ten years ago. The radio alarm clock went off and the station’s DJs were talking about terrorism. I blearily thought, “You guys have nothing else to talk about?” Then they mentioned burning buildings, collapses. I shut off my radio. And turned on CNN for the first time since the First… Continue reading Remembering 9/11 at Star Trek: The Experience
Comic-Con Comic Strip Contest!
Let’s have a contest! Here’s a link to a stick figure comic: comic-contest.pdf Fill in the blanks, you creative type you. What is happening in this exchange? Afan seeking an autograph? Some young hopeful artist submitting his work for review? A BBQ cook off? Who knows? It is up to you to fill in the… Continue reading Comic-Con Comic Strip Contest!
Barry’s Inner Monologue Makes a Video
How Vlarg REALLY feels… -Torgo
Star Wars Galaxies is Shutting Down and it’s Sony’s Fault
Star Wars Galaxies is shutting down. Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts are sunsetting the long-suffering game on December 15th, 2011. There are more details, but you can find them all over the net. I just want to point a few things we should learn from its existence before it vanishes into the ether as another… Continue reading Star Wars Galaxies is Shutting Down and it’s Sony’s Fault
The Education of Master Torgo
Listening to the podcasts over the past few months you may have heard me joke about my “educating” mastertorgo on Robert E. Howard and Conan. As a long time Conan fan and Howard purist, I hoped to give at least one fantasy fan a better understanding of one of fantasy’s founding fathers. Howard and… Continue reading The Education of Master Torgo
In My Day
Growing up one of my favorite movies was Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood. Cool archery, great fencing, that movie brought my family’s house to a stop whenever it showed up on tv. I also read Greek and Roman mythology like a mad fiend. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Bernard Evslin’s The Trojan War and Robert Graves’ The Greek… Continue reading In My Day
Stop Cryin’ Before I Give You Something To Cry About
Ok, last week a friend on Facebook posted a comment on how today’s Hollywood film makers need to pay less attention to their calculators and more attention to scripts. Uh-huh. Before that I had a brief argument with a friend over Hollywood’s recent “hatred” of original ideas; every movie last year was a remake, reboot,… Continue reading Stop Cryin’ Before I Give You Something To Cry About
Star Wars the Musical (Circa Class of 96′)
Your appreciation of this piece hinges on two criteria: (1) Your absolute knowledge of Star Wars and (2) Your absolute knowledge of musicals that were popular in the mid nineties. If you are well versed in these two criteria, the following is comedy gold. Like the new off-Broadway production of the Spiderman parody, It is a zero-budget,… Continue reading Star Wars the Musical (Circa Class of 96′)
Comic-Con Tickets Sold Out; World Mourns
Last Saturday morning, Comic-Con tickets officially went on sale through Ticketleap. Servers were instantly slammed, and many people got over-capacity message from Ticketleap and were encouraged to keep trying. All passes were sold out by 3pm. Some people who were online since the first minute they were available weren’t able to get tickets. And of… Continue reading Comic-Con Tickets Sold Out; World Mourns