I’m Starting to Think This Whole Groundhog Day Thing Is Bullshit
Every year, twelve days before Valentine’s Day*, the nation gets together for its age old tradition of forcibly evicting a woodland rodent from his burrow in order to arbitrarily predict the weather for…
The Darkness Returns For More Heavy Metal Irony
Get in your way-back machines for a visit to the mid-2000s. Back then there was a heavy metal band called “The Darkness” that was an incredibly spot-on ironic tribute to the metal bands…
Dispatches From the Wiki Blackout: My 10 Favorite Twits
In case no one has yet told you about it, you need to check out @herpderpedia, a collection of excellent tweets from Wednesday’s Wikipedia Blackout in protestation of SOPA, or the Stop Online…
Is Dr. Pepper Trying to Bring Back the Hitler ‘Stache?
So, the other night I’m watching The Colbert Report on its website and before the show can even run the cold open, I get the above ad. And I’m not averse to watching…
A Few Thoughts on “Skyrim”
I know that videogames and Jewishness don’t exactly mix. In fact, one of my first articles was about just that. I don’t why this is. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to bring you some…
Viral Texting
Above you’ll see today’s Rex Morgan, M.D. If you’re not familiar with the strip, it’s one of the longer running comic strips, having begun its life in 1948 as a sort of Funnies…
NYTimes Breaks Story on “Running”
In what I can only describe as the sheer cutting-edge of newsmaking, the New York Times has a story about a form of movement previously unknown to man as “running.” This new movement,…
Now That Video Games Are Art…Let the Hating Begin!
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (or SCOTUS, as you can call it if you want to sound “in the know” and make people think you have some awful STD)…
