Email Author Jef With One F

2013 Stories by Jef With One F

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  10 Most Amazingly Bizarre Paintings of Obama on Etsy

  published May 09, 2013

  As Houston Press' bizarre Etsy art expert, I thought I'd see how a nation of crafty lunatics would portray our commander-in-chief. The answer is somewhere between "awesomely" and "needs medication bad... More >>

• The Babies Braid Their Feelings In "Mess Me Around"

  published May 08, 2013

  It's been awhile since I, the last VJ, had anything of note music video-wise to share with you fine folks, but my inbox has been flooded lately with extremely quality work. Today we're getting the bal... More >>

• Carl Stamitz: Music, Failure and Alchemy

  published May 08, 2013

  Today is the baptismal anniversary of composer Carl Stamitz, who would have been 268 years old and a day today if he had succeeded in the last act of his amazingly productive but wholly disappointin... More >>

• 100 Creatives: Josh Montoute, Mobile Gaming Specialist

  published May 08, 2013

  What He Does: You may not know it, but Houston actually does have a little bit of a video game design scene. Josh Montoute is one of the people in it. He founded Thinksquirrel in 2011, with an eye tow... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Sloan Robley, The Last Houstonian Banshee

  published May 07, 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: More Like the Crimson Hell Yeah!

  published May 06, 2013

  The second half of Season 7 of Doctor Who has been, frankly, a disappointment. Only "Hide" has offered a really solid outing, and only single brilliant scenes in the first two episodes saved them from... More >>

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  No, I Don't Know Who Farrah Abraham Is. Yes, I Will Probably Watch Her Sex Tape

  published May 03, 2013

  One of the stars of MTV's Teen Mom has made a professionally produced pornographic film called Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom, available May 6. The film is a 70-minute hardcore outing featuring v... More >>

• The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Indoor Playgrounds (with Air Conditioning!)

  published May 02, 2013

  Parents know that the best thing you can do with kids is find them someplace you can launch them like rocks from a trebuchet so they can ricochet off objects and other kids until inertia slows them to... More >>

• The Hates, the 1970s Gas Crisis, and "Do the Caryl Chessman"

  published May 02, 2013

  Not to brag, but I've got a copy of the new Hates album, People's Temple, and it is (as usual) a fantastic little CD that every punk fan in Houston should own. We're still waiting on a confirmed relea... More >>

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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 >>