Best Buy has dictated that we will celebrate National Vampire Awareness Day and Halloween in the same week. The holiday actually has nothing to do with vampires, but with the electronics term, “Vampire load,” which refers to the electricity that’s sucked up by leaving your appliances plugged in even if they’re turned off. Either way, we have an excuse to celebrate the greatest vampire of the modern era: Damon Salvatore. Image via Wikipedia He’s a complicated and admittedly terrible guy at times, but still a deeply caring and eventful one too. He also has the best one-liners. Behold …
We have reached that point in the season where your decision to go out is dependent on whether or not you want to throw on your jacket, search for a semi-warm place to loiter with your peeps, and take thirty to fifty minutes to figure out what to eat. If that was as unappealing for you to read as it was for me to type, then let us boycott the outside world, and dive into the tales that the writers of today have worked so diligently to craft. Check out Bookstr’s Three to Read, the three books we’ve picked for …
Once upon a time, before the integration of all sorts of semi-unrelated media and publications, comic book conventions highlighted exactly that—comics. Now, I’m as grateful as any hardcore fan that the Dragon Ball franchise is getting the mainstream convention attention it deserves, but it’s always important to celebrate the comic book universe that started it all: DC Comics. Image via DC Comics New York Comic Con 2019 was truly eventful (especially for someone with a press pass), and DC announced loads to look forward to in the coming year. Here’s a quick run-through of some of the biggest …
Fall has arrived. Day by day, the sun is setting a little earlier and the weather is getting brisker and “bricker.” Staying indoors is sounding pretty good right now. Why not embrace your inner introvert and snuggle up inside with a new read? Check out Bookstr’s Three to Read, the three books we’ve picked for you to read this week! Our Hot Pick I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays Synopsis: In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a …
“Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don’t get in a fight. Ohhhh, back to school.” -Adam Sandler, Billy Madison Back-to-school season is a whirlwind of classes and checklists, but hopefully you’ve settled back into the rhythm of things. If you’re no longer in school, then you can either empathize with the following stories, or find yourselves entertained and relieved to no longer be dealing with these school-time conundrums. Here are some picks to celebrate that school spirit! …
