I’ve been on vacation for a week and I know this has been everywhere, but I just have to say that Stephen Colbert is my hero. No kidding.

Between work craziness of all kinds (don’t ask) and a plague-like flu, I’ve been off the grid for a week or so. If you’ve sent an email, made a comment, or otherwise tried to contact me, don’t be mad. It’s me, not you…really.
Now I’m off on vacation and coworkers, family, and friends have […]

I’ve been getting into Veronica Mars this season. It’s a worthy successor to the “High School is Hell” idea started by Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Like Buffy, it’s well written and uses genre and character development to tell a good story. No vampires or demons in sight, but that’s probably for the […]

While my video game skills and encyclopedic knowledge of genre movies have served me well, there are a few essential bits of the man-boy toolkit that eluded me until later in life. My pals Rick and Eric set me up a few years ago, but for those of you still looking for bottle openers […]

Scott Campbell makes amazing sculptures from Transformers toys. I’m sure there’s a pseudo-intellectual link between this and the twisted metal of J.G. Ballard’s Crash, but my brain is very tired. Care to take a crack at it in the comments?
(via PingMag)

I got a new job yesterday and, while I’m honestly excited about it, it’s a little strange. My boss is leaving tomorrow and once he’s gone, I’ll be the sole survivor of our little university web department. My job is much the same as it was the day before yesterday, except now I […]

Holy shit! Between John’s good natured, but rigorous grilling of John McCain and the amazing interview with Studs Terkel, The Daily Show just hit a new high.

One of the interesting by-products of using an RSS reader is the effect it has on the time-honored tradition of April Fools Day. When you stack up hundreds of tongue in cheek spoofs next to each other in a newsreader it’s hard to be fooled, despite many valiant efforts.
It’s kind of sad really. […]