beware of blacksad

Blacksad is a comic book series written by Spanish author Juan Díaz Canales and illustrated by Juanjo Guarnido in November 2000 firstly aiming the French audience with the title Somewhere Between the Shadows before U.S release title Blacksad.

Although it was the creators' first comic book, the first volume was an immense success, selling more than 200,000 copies in France alone.

The story is set in a film noir environment with completely antropomorphic animal characters. Species are given specific characteristics such as policeman which are drawn as German Shepherds, Scottish Terriers and foxes.

The main character is a black cat named Blacksad who is a typical private investigator wearing a dark green suit, a red stripped tie and a trench coat in the U.S.A of the late 1950s. He often gets into trouble while trying to solve a case before revealing the shocking truth, as in a typical detective story, however the dirty realist outlook of the human like animals in darkly cinematic style makes Blacksad a worth reading comic album.

smells like lemon jelly

Lemon Jelly is a British electronic duo formed in 1998 by Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen.

The group released three full lenght albums and gained reputation as one of the most downtempo acts in the U.K. before going on hiastus in 2008.

Lemon Jelly has been nominated for many awards including Mercury Music Prized and Brit Awards.

According to Deakin, the name "Lemon Jelly" comes from an incident when Franglen came into Deakin's kitchen and said "It smells like Lemon Jelly in here."

 In The Bath - Lemon Jelly by marshman 

ho ho ho

The legendary symbol of new year depicted as an joyful benevolent old man who always wears red contrasting his white hair, eyebrows and beard is believed to be ready to make the children's wish real during the evening of Christmas Eve. 

Even though the popular western culture portrays him as an humoristic character having the latest gift manufacturing technology overrun by elves and reindeers waiting to fly outside, his origins are much older and vague than expected.

Nikolaos of Myra is thought to inspire the popular folk-legend of Santa Claus. He was a 4th century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in Lyrcia, a province of the ByzantineAnatolia, now in Turkey. Nicholas was famous for his generous gifts to the poor.  He was very religious from an early age and devoted his life entirely to Christianity. In Europe (more precisely the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Germany) he is still portrayed as a bearded bishop in canonical robes.


The tradition of him dwelling through chimneys reach back to the tales of Saint Nicholas tossing coins down a chimney when he found the windows locked.


Images of Santa Claus drawn by Haddon Sunblom for The Coca Cola Company’s Christmas advertising in the 1930s further popularized him giving rise to urban legends that it was the company to invent Santa Clause as he was wearing red and white to promote the company colors.

The figure has been criticized by some authorities claiming that he is a symbol of commercialism as he has become burdened with some of society's greatest challenges: materialism, corporate greed, and domination by the media.

Another debate  about his existence is that it is unethical to lie children that he is real and the children may lose their trust in their parents. However Dr. John Condry of Cornell University interviewed more than 500 children for a study of the issue and found that not a single child was angry at his or her parents for telling them Santa Claus was real. According to Dr. Condry, "The most common response to finding out the truth was that they felt older and more mature. They now knew something that the younger kids did not". 

The picture on the top was illustrated by American cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1881 in Harper's Weekly. It was colored later.

beautiful archaeologist returns

It's a well known fact that last Tomb Raiders installements never got the same quality as they had in the first games.

The game developpers launched a new Lara Croft game with her own title adding a completely new camera angle and gameplay on August 2010 exclusively for Xbox and a month later for PSN and Steam.

After all those years, the players are going to fall in love with Lara all over again.

The story which is the only downside of the game introduces us Totec, supposedly a 2000 year old Aztec deity as an excuse for allowing the players to experience one of the greatest parts of the game; cooperative gameplay, however the player also has the option to play a solo game which is also satisfying.

falling down

Eden of the East is (東のエデン Higashi no Eden ) a Japanese anime series which first aired in Fuji TV on April 2009.

Three months after the missile strikes in Japan on November 2010, a young Japanese woman named Saki Morimi visiting Washington D.C. in a graduation trip gets into trouble as a mysterious Japanese man, who introduces himself as Akira, helps her through it. The man appears to have no memory and is completely naked, carrying only a gun and a cell phone charged with ¥8.2 billion in digital money. While they are coming back to Japan, they learn that a new missile has hit their country.

The series has won numerous awards since its release, including the TV Feature Award at the 2009 Animation Kobe festival and the best television series of the year award at the ninth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair.

The opening theme of the first episode of the series is Falling Down by famous English rock band "Oasis".

 Oasis - Falling down by Han Branch 

rebirth of the gunslinger

Based on the story of The Dark Tower series written by American author Stephen King who is best known for his contemporary horror, science fiction and fantasy fiction novels, the first volume of The Dark Tower comic book series was released on February 2007 with Stephen King serving as Creative and Executive Director of the project.

The first chapter run of the series consists of 30 issues that make up five volumes illustrated by Jae Lee who won "Best New Series" Eisner Award, for Inhumans vol. 2 and Richard Isanove who won the Wizard Award in 2001 for his work on Wolverine Origins.

The first volume, The Gunslinger Born, introduces Roland Deschain who is asked to prove his new title as a gunslinger by completing a challenging quest; however before reaching the Dark Tower, Roland is yet to carry the weight of the consequences of his actions.

un petit gâteau coloré

Basically made from powder of almond, sugar and white eggs; macaroon is a round shaped cookie with different flavors such as chocolate, vanilla, pistachio, raspberry, caramel, lemon etc.


Once cooked and filled, the macaroons are put to one side for 2 days before going on sale, the time it takes to achieve a balance between texture and flavour.


This soft and crunchy confection had much debate about its origins, however the macaroon today known is called Paris macaroon and is the creation of Pierre Desfontaines of the French pâtisserie Ladurée, composed of two almond meringue discs filled with a jam layer.