Email Author Jef With One F

2013 Stories by Jef With One F

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  UPDATED: Woodrow's Alum Begs Kickstarter For Another Bar; Plus Three More Insulting Houston Campaigns

  published Jun 19, 2013

  UPDATE (Wednesday, 4 p.m.): According to Little Woodrow's owner Danny Evans, also former owner of Big Woodrow's on Chimney Rock, the man behind the Woodrow's Cypress Kickstarter campaign is not affili... More >>

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  Soon the Rich Will Own Gaming and Going to the Movies Completely

  published Jun 19, 2013

  You might have heard recently that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg lamented that the blockbuster was killing the movie industry, which is funny because they, you know, invented it. The two elder aut... More >>

• Exp Bar Rises to Our Video Game Cocktail Challenge

  published Jun 19, 2013

  A little bit back I explored the best of the video game-inspired cocktails, and that's how I made the acquaintance Joe Fronczek of Exp Bar, based out of Lewisville, TX. It turns out that there is a hu... More >>

• 100 Creatives: Browncoat, Pin-Up Pop Artist

  published Jun 19, 2013

  What He Does: The man they call Browncoat, or alternatively, DJ Twinkle-Toes, is a graphic artists and DJ here in Houston. His work is pop art at its finest, mixing almost photorealistic faces with ca... More >>

• I Tried to Explain Transgender Doom Metal to My Three-Year-Old

  published Jun 19, 2013

  I wasn't really in a very good mood on Sunday. Taking the Daughter With One F out of the house so the wife can study for nursing school is my task every weekend, and though my daughter is an angel, I ... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Shane Tuttle, Updog Owner and Album-Cover Designer

  published Jun 18, 2013

  Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're i... More >>

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  Does The Last of Us Prove Anita Sarkeesian Right About Video Game Violence and Womenr

  published Jun 18, 2013

  Spoilers Ahead Before we get started, I want to set the tone of the article in the first paragraph to try real hard to head off the haters who are eyeing the comment section like a girl passed out at... More >>

• True Blood: Mikky Ekko Makes Me Not Hate Rihanna

  published Jun 17, 2013

  Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood -- which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps... More >>

• Reviews for the Lazy Gamer: The Last Of Us

  published Jun 17, 2013

  Game: The Last of Us Platform: PS3 Publisher/Developer: Sony/Naughty Dog Genre: Survival horror Describe This Game in Three Words: This will hurt Plot Synopsis: Twenty years after the world i... More >>

• James Caronna Redeemed In "The Devil Made a Home"

  published Jun 14, 2013

  I'm going to rip this Band-Aid right off... back when I first was introduced to singer-songwriter James Caronna I didn't think very highly of him at all. I thought his work was unoriginal, uninspiring... More >>

• Woozyhelmet Takes Two Years to Answer an Email About Their Name

  published Jun 13, 2013

  It a well-known fact that most band names are gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. Two years ago, when I started punching band names in the vo... More >>

• We Are Wombat: Try Pooping In Cubes

  published Jun 13, 2013

  It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're doing our best to find meaning in the oddest monikers. My absolute favorite kind of music is stu... More >>

• LEGO BioShock Is Back in a Big Way

  published Jun 12, 2013

  No, unfortunately that's not an official LEGO set or even art from an upcoming LEGO video game set in the world of BioShock. What it is is another build by Imagine Rigney, who wowed us some time back ... More >>

• 100 Creatives 2013: Vincent Fink, Science Fashion

  published Jun 12, 2013

  What He Does: Vincent Fink has been a graphic designer ever since he left the Art Institute of Houston in 2005. He found a nice high-paying job doing what he loved, but a cruel and verbally abusive pr... More >>

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  5 Hilarious Lawsuits Involving Porn Parodies (NSFW)

  published Jun 12, 2013

  Pornographic parodies of mainstream films and television shows, also called parallel porn titles, are a lot like licensed video games, honestly. Some of them are great, but most of them are kind of an... More >>

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  People Bitching About the Sookie Stackhouse Ending Just Don't Get It

  published Jun 11, 2013

  Warning, this article contains nothing but spoilers. Charlaine Harris recently wrapped up the Sookie Stackhouse books with Dead Ever After, and True Blood returns to us this Sunday. If I was a bettin... More >>

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  Doctor Who: I Think I Know the Doctor's Name (And A Bad Thing About The 50th Anniversary)

  published Jun 11, 2013

  Be advised, this article was written with tongue very much in cheek. Of course the big revelation from "The Name of the Doctor" was not the birth name of the Time Lord, or even that his name was real... More >>

• June Kickstarter Round-Up: Virtual Reality Gaming is Finally Real

  published Jun 11, 2013

  Once a month we'll be bringing you a look at some of the local Kickstarter campaigns in order to let you know what's getting ready to be unleashed through the help of small investors. Omni: Move Natu... More >>

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  5 of Superman's Powers You Won't See in Man of Steel

  published Jun 10, 2013

  When people think of a superhero, they think of Superman. Oh, they may have another favorite like Spider-Man or Batman or even Matter-Eater Lad if you're insane, but Superman is just quintessentially ... More >>

• A James Byrd Jr. Memorial Playlist

  published Jun 07, 2013

  We all know the reason Jasper, Texas is famous... Butterflies! Oh wait, no, sorry. That's from Bizarro World, where the answer isn't "hate crimes and murder." It's one of those East Texas towns, like ... More >>

• Artificial Earth Machine: The Mexican NASA In Us All

  published Jun 07, 2013

  It's a well-known fact that most band names are gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. There are many kinds of electronic music. There's your ru... More >>

• Just How Awesome is the Hyrule Historiar

  published Jun 07, 2013

  While I was out at 8th Dimension Comics picking up the monthly selections for my regular round up column my eyes fell upon something that I couldn't believe had finally made it over to American shores... More >>

• Rocks Off 100: Recon Naissance, A Rap While Matt's Guitar Gently Weeps

  published Jun 06, 2013

  Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're i... More >>

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  Parents, Don't Let Your Children Watch Powerpuff Girls or They'll be Communists

  published Jun 06, 2013

  Regular readers may notice that I've managed to already turn my three-year-old into a little Whovian, and thus may envy me that I get to watch Daleks and Cybermen with her rather than other children's... More >>

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  The 10 Least Subtle Song Titles of All Time

  published Jun 06, 2013

  Now I was a singer in a band, and that band wrote a song called "You Cannot Kill David Arquette." We wrote a lot of other songs, too, and most of them had more esoteric and poetic titles. Still, that'... More >>