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2013 Stories by Jef With One F

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  5 TV Characters That Would Make Better Doctor Who Companions Than Clara

  published May 02, 2013

  I have to be honest with you... I'm not loving Clara Oswald as a companion. At all. This pains me to admit because I was freakin' in love with her in "Asylum of the Daleks" and "The Snowmen." She was ... More >>

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  Best Comics of April: Free Comic Book Day Edition

  published May 01, 2013

  Once a month the amazing staff at 8th Dimension Comics selects a pile of the best new releases for us to peruse and judge. This month, we'll tell you what titles to look for that will be available on... More >>

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  Jack Chick's Anti-D&D Comic is Becoming a Movie! 5 More We Hope Get Made

  published May 01, 2013

  JR Ralls of Portland, OR won some money in the lottery. Not like a million dollars, but enough to where he felt like he had to do something significant with it to better humanity. To that end he bo... More >>

• Happy Birthday, Ray Parker Jr.! Seven Songs That Aren't "Ghostbusters"

  published May 01, 2013

  Today Ray Parker Jr. turns 55 years old, and many happy returns to the man. Likely the only thing most of us know about him is that he penned the ever-catchy theme to Ghostbusters... though Huey Lewis... More >>

• Buyer's Guide to Video Game Lamps Part 2

  published May 01, 2013

  A while back we featured some of the greatest video game lamps available to gamers that like a little style in their home lighting scheme. Today, we salute some new products for that purpose and let y... More >>

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  The Rocks Off 100: Richard Ramirez, Noise God and Black Leather Jesus

  published Apr 30, 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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  Doctor Who: Where's Neil When You Need Himr

  published Apr 29, 2013

  I can honestly say that this was the first episode I have ever been disappointed in as far as Doctor Who goes. We were promised a look into parts of the Tardis we as an audience had never experienced ... More >>

• 10 Amazing Facts About the Game Boy You Didn't Know

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Honestly, when it comes to portable gaming no one has ever really managed to challenge Nintendo. The Game Boy is one of the most successful systems of all time, despite the fact that it went up agains... More >>

• Ninjas From Texas: San Antonio Metal Crew Sells "Sex, Drugs and Mopeds"

  published Apr 26, 2013

  It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're doing out best to make sense of the oddest monikers. Ninjas From Texas is a metal/hardcore act ou... More >>

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  10 Best Video Game Trailers of All Time

  published Apr 24, 2013

  There's no argument that many games rival big-budget movies now in terms of production, and just like the movies, they know that you've got to use a little sizzle to sell the steak. The art of the ga... More >>

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  Creationists Ruined My Ability to Enjoy Watching My Daughter Ride a Dinosaur

  published Apr 24, 2013

  The Wife with One F is in nursing school with finals approaching, so it's my job to take my sweet but concentration-shattering three-year-old daughter out of the house so that when my wife is actually... More >>

• Happy World Book Day! Five Albums Named For Books

  published Apr 23, 2013

  In 1995, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared every April 23 to be World Book Day, and encouraged us to celebrate by reading. The date was chosen as the annive... More >>

• Doctor Who: The First Woman in Space/Time

  published Apr 22, 2013

  There are really two ways to look at the latest episode, "Hide." One is that it is objectively the best episode in this half of Season 7 so far. It's the first truly frightening episode since "Blink."... More >>

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  The History of The Beatles In Doctor Who

  published Apr 22, 2013

  Perhaps no band in the real world has had quite as much of an impact on the world of Doctor Who as the Beatles did. Both were of course fantastic products of England in the '60s, but some of the conne... More >>

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  New Doctor Who Puppet Show Is Just Amazing

  published Apr 22, 2013

  Five years ago an animator and puppeteer named Alisa Stern of New York City was working in an animation studio where her coworkers were big fans of Doctor Who. The constant talk and clips that were ... More >>

• P.L.X.T.X. Explores an Inner Scream on Selective Mutism

  published Apr 19, 2013

  Do not download Bradley Munoz's, better know as P.L.X.T.X., album Selective Mutism. In fact, don't call it an album at all, because that is in no way what it is. Munoz's insistence on sending me a ph... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Robin Kirby, Silk and Sandpaper Songwriter

  published Apr 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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  The Rest of the Best: Top 10 Places for Video Games in Houston

  published Apr 18, 2013

  Gamers of one form or another have long since become the majority of Americans. Some 60 percent of people play everything from Candy Crush on their iPhones to console adventures to puzzle games on the... More >>

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  10 Things That Would Have Made BioShock Infinite Perfect

  published Apr 17, 2013

  The honeymoon is over, and while I still say that BioShock Infinite is not only the game of the year, but probably of several years to come, The Brother With One F and I sat down and honestly critique... More >>

• 100 Creatives 2013: Patrick Renner: Sculptor of the Abstract and the Esoteric

  published Apr 17, 2013

  Who: Patrick Renner is a sculptor specializing in geometrical and architectural creations, mostly from recycled colored wood. He began his career with LEGO as a boy, but developed his talent with wood... More >>

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  Top 10 Zack Morris-Inspired Items on Etsy

  published Apr 16, 2013

  I was a passionate fan of both Good Morning, Miss Bliss and Saved by the Bell. Especially the latter, and it's all because of the fact that lead character Zack Morris was a crazed, megalomaniacal psyc... More >>

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  Doctor Who: A Copy of a Copy of a Copy

  published Apr 15, 2013

  In general I am a big fan of Mark Gatiss's writing. I'm actually reading his Second Doctor novel The Roundheads now. It's very likely that when Steven Moffat hangs up his hat as showrunner, it's Gatis... More >>

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  The Buyer's Guide to Badass Toilet Paper Holders

  published Apr 15, 2013

  Nothing quite defines us like our bathrooms, and no one wants to be defined by a pedestrian toilet paper holder. No, it should be worthy of attending to the cleanliness of our marvelous selves. Get ou... More >>

• 100 Creatives 2013: Tomas Glass, Abstract Artist and True Blood Musician

  published Apr 12, 2013

  Who: Tomas Glass is an artist and musician gaining some serious ground here in Houston. His visual work is mostly abstract, focusing on a series of off-balanced geometric shapes that tend to hover jus... More >>

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  The Easiest Way You Can Make the Internet a Better, Less Misogynistic Place

  published Apr 12, 2013

  This video kicks more ass than magnetic boots in a room full of Cybermen. Just in case you're in a place where watching videos isn't an option, we have a young guy and a girl who is clearly passed o... More >>