Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Hurray For Excessive And Gratuitous Violence
Finally got this today, and MAN am I ever impressed. The original God of War was released in 2005, and made my list for best game of the year. Now God of War II is out and while it’s essentially the same game, it addresses all the minor [...]
Forums & The 80’s
There’s a truism that’s popped up on forums on the internet that goes something like this, “Arguing on the internet is like participating in the Special Olympics, win or lose, you’re still retarded.”
I really should pay more attention to truisms like that.
Over the last few days, I’ve actually found myself honest to [...]
Monday Is Grocery Day
Meaning that we did pretty just that… and I wrote more of Lost in Loveless and managed to finally figure out a particular plot problem. More precisely, the Wife figured it out, and I’m just stealing her idea….
Another Boring Sunday
All I did was update my DVD catalog (something that I apparently hadn’t done since 2003 according to the program’s record) write a bit of Lost in Loveless, do up a last minute GameAxis article and watch some bizarre Japanese film by the same guy that did Audition, Ryu Murakami only this wasn’t [...]
Getting What Is Deserved
This is something I’ve been meaning to mention for a bit now, and today is as good a time as any. Anyone that grew up in the 80’s might remember the animated film The Last Unicorn, based on the novel of the same name by Peter S. Beagle. There are [...]
Work, Movies and Velma
As you can see, the Wife suddenly got motivated to finish the sketch of Velma that she did in black & white way back when we were still in Singapore. I don’t remember Velma looking quite this slinky, but I sure ain’t gonna’ complain about it.
Other than that, this was another [...]
You Know You’ve Settled Down In Your New Home
When all you have to report on your blog is nothing but work. Finished up more GameAxis articles, saw the dentist for the second and final cleaning of the teeth, and went down to a shop on Queen Street called The Magic Pony to see whether [...]
Another Quiet Day
The only things that happened of note were that I finally got around to watching Rubber’s Lover, a WTF movie if ever there was one. Kind of a Japanese combination of David Lynch with Stanley Kubrick’s clinical inhumanity. And screaming. Lots of screaming. And rubber suits. And people’s [...]
This… Is… Yet Another Quote From The Movie 300!
Yep, today was the day that I finally broke my 10+ year fast and stepped into a Canadian movie theater. Fortunately the experience was somewhat mitigated by the fact that I was watching a 4:00 pm matinee showing on the fringes of southeastern downtown Toronto. [...]