History Blog / GeekRage

%% * The Alcoholic: Played up on Caius's Twitter.

%% * Bash Brothers: Caius and Mr. Ellis.
%% * Berserk Button: Lazy writing, certain authors, disappointing sequels, Tumblr's formatting, not properly loading ChekhovsGun.

%% * RedOni BlueOni: He's the red to Mr. Ellis's blue.

%% * Sitco mArchNemesis: George Mann, it would seem.

* TheAlcoholic: Played up on Caius's Twitter.

* BashBrothers: Caius and Mr. Ellis.
* BerserkButton: Lazy writing, certain authors, disappointing sequels, Tumblr's formatting, not properly loading ChekhovsGun.

* RedOniBlueOni: He's the red to Mr. Ellis's blue.

* SitcomArchNemesis: George Mann, it would seem.

* AbortedArc: After the ScheduleSlip, a lot of the "Next time" stuff kind of tended to get lost in the shuffle.

* CutYourHeartOutWithASpoon: Threatens this on occasion. Notable is Rod Rees and Creator/GeorgeMann

* FootnoteFever: More and more common after May 2011, as there seem to be footnotes on every review. During his NekoCon 2012 article, he actually runs out of footnotes and starts using "^"

*** Considering how long he let the joke go during the last part of the article, could count as a BrickJoke

* ShoutOut: The NekoCon 2012 title is one to Hunter S. Thompson

* AccentuateTheNegative: Mostly inverted, with the exception of the review for ''TheMagicians'' and ''Ghosts of Manhattan''.

* CutYourHeartOutWithASpoon: Threatens this on occasion. Notable is Rod Rees and George Mann

* AffectionateParody: The colors used in his HouseOfLeaves [[http://srmbc.blogspot.com/2011/02/house-of-leaves.html review]].

** Also: "But, and here's the important bit:"
** And: "Way back in the dawn of time...(okay, it was really (insert date x here))"
** Referring to readers as "all two of you" for SelfDeprecation
** More recently, he's switched to "Sweet hell" and "(x). That is all."

* TakeThat: Creator/JamesJoyce, Creator/AynRand, George Mann, Tumblr's formatting issues (said formatting issue jokes also doubling as BitingTheHandHumor).

* FootnoteFever: More and more common after May 2011, as there seem to be footnotes on every review, sometimes going up to "******"

->"''And then things get weird...''"
-->-- '''CaiusCaligula'''

!!''GeekRage'' provides examples of:

* NaughtyTentacles: The blog's tagline reads "We are Cthulhu, You are Japan", referencing this and Kaiju

* TakeThat: JamesJoyce, Creator/AynRand, George Mann, Tumblr's formatting issues (said formatting issue jokes also doubling as BitingTheHandHumor).

* BerserkButton: Lazy writing, certain authors, disappointing sequels, not properly loading ChekhovsGun.

* EpilepticTrees: His FightClub essay flirts with this.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In the old days. Reviews were colored green, site stuff was colored red, and personal comments were neutral-colored
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Mostly averted, though he has been known to get certain details wrong. And then there was the review he posted an apology for...

In August of 2010, people finally got fed up with Caius Caligula telling them about all the books he read, so he repurposed what was an angry rant blog and started doing book reviews instead. Here he has continued, through ScheduleSlip, a move to Tumblr, and a lack of anyone caring what was said, to review weird fiction books for anyone who would care to read. Recently, due to a habit of going to conventions and generally faffing about, Caius has added articles about the various places he goes to and faffs about, including an anime con and a book expo. He plans to do more of this sort of thing. The reviews are strange, normally starting with a "how I found this" anecdote, and WallOfText usually applies.

* TakeThat: JamesJoyce, AynRand, George Mann, Tumblr's formatting issues (said formatting issue jokes also doubling as BitingTheHandHumor).