Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
A Conversation With The Infinite
(As composed while a cat stares imperiously from a lap, demanding food she knows she’s already eaten)
Me: So you’re The Infinite?
Infinite: Yup, that’s about the size of it.
Me: That size being infinite.
Infinite: As you say.
Me: Wow. Cool.
Infinite: A somewhat underwhelming response, but I’m in [...]
Neil Is Soooo Cooooool…
I recently picked up a copy of Hanging Out With The Dream King: Conversations With Neil Gaiman And His Collaborators and though I’ve only dug a few interviews into it, I am once again siezed with the wholly irrational impulse to try and figure out exactly how I can go about [...]
I’m Having Trouble With The Latest Script
Not because I don’t know what to write, so much as because it’s a fairly dialogue intensive storyline (Yeah, I’m talking about the CG Animated series again) and, if it hasn’t been made abundantly clear by this point, I like dialogue. A LOT.
So my basic problem is pulling [...]
More Pop Culture Musings
I’m beginning to think I’m one of the most shallow people on the Earth, the way the simple things like video games, movies, comic books, novels, animation, and my fiancee make me extremely happy. While the rest of the cool kids are dressing all Goth and reading Nietzsche in the cafe while [...]
So I Finally Got Around To Watching Kill Bill
Wow.
I’ll say something more coherent when I pick my brain up off the floor and tighten the slack that built up in my jaw…
Mercy For Michael
I am thinking that if I ever had the chance, I would do Michael Jackson the favor of giving him a time machine and allowing him the chance to visit himself on the cusp of his great success to warn him of the fate that awaits him in the years to come…
Young Michael: [...]
Okay, So Spiderman 2 Made Me Cry…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the geek in me…
It’s probably not the most professional attitude for a critic to have (Then again I’m a game critic, not a film critic, so in the immortal words of Sage, the Grand Theft Auto alternative music DJ, “Screw you.”) but I tend to [...]
Yup, It’s The New Year BlogAfter a long hiatus, it is time to once more foul the airwaves with the rather undramatic events of my life, dramatized with much narrative license so as to make myself sound more interesting.But first off:Why I Have Been SilentTruth to tell, mostly because I didn’t have much to say, [...]