Beyond the Rhetoric

It really is amazing what you can accomplish when you set your mind to it. Beyond the Rhetoric started way back in March 2006 as the re-imaging of my first major website, Now That’s Entertainment. At the time, I updated the blog rather sporadically, but that has changed in recent years. I now make it [...]

Every Wednesday, I take a brief tour of the blogosphere to see what people are saying. Some weeks, I stick to a theme and other weeks, I gather an eclectic collection of posts. Today, I’m adhering to the former, looking for blog posts that can fit within the theme of endings and new beginnings. With [...]

By a show of virtual hands, how many of you remember the video game Renegade on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)? This was the side-scrolling beat-em-up from Taito that preceded the now legendary Double Dragon franchise of games. It also sparked a whole generation of side-scrolling games, paving the way for titles like Battletoads [...]