Day 311: It’s Time To Kill The Redskins Rule

originally published November 6, 2012 Having grown up as a Dallas Cowboys fan, I never much liked the Washington Redskins. Of course, I live nowhere near an NFL city, and over time I’ve softened my loathing of the ‘Skins, especially since they acquired the most interesting draft pick this year, Robert Griffin III. I watched […]

Day 310: Take Out The Trash Day, Volume III

originally published November 5, 2012 Once every month or so I like to sift through my ever-ballooning roster of potential article ideas and flush out the ones I find interesting, but which would require so much filler to puff out to a thousand words, I might as well not bother. Not everything can inspire a […]

Day 309: 1000 Morphemes, 1000 Diurnal Courses

originally published November 4, 2012 Nobody picks up a guitar and searches clumsily for their first proper E chord, hoping someday they’ll play in a Bay City Rollers tribute band. But they might figure out the progression to “Saturday Night”, and it’s possible that they’re pretty good at it. And when they’re older, struggling to […]

Day 308: The Super-Size McIdiots & The Strip-Search Hoax

originally published November 3, 2012 I’m going to slap this right up front – as I approached the end of my research on this fascinating story, I learned that it has been recently made into a film. If you totally missed this strangeness in the news a few years back, and if you really don’t […]

Day 307: Of Lucas And Disney

originally published November 2, 2012 There are several ways one could react to this week’s news regarding the sale of the Star Wars franchise to Disney for $4.5 billion, stock options and free Splash Mountain ride photos for life for George Lucas and his family. Some devotees are hailing this as a miracle of child-dream […]

Day 306: Scanning The Sludge – Worst TV Part 2

originally published November 1, 2012 Sometimes there’s nothing more fun than laughing at someone else’s complete and total failure. Until you realize that quite often those people got paid for their failures. In the case of these terrible television shows – all plucked from that fetid, rotting tree known as reality TV – the producers, […]

Day 305: Drinking From The Legend Of Stingy Jack

originally published October 31, 2012 For 304 days I have reported on the facts as they have popped up in Ms. Wiki’s stony gaze. Today, in honor of that most sacred of holidays in which gore-splotched zombies mingle with slutty nurses and mustachioed Marios all over the world, I thought I’d change the pace and […]

Day 304: Masters Of Darkness

originally published October 30, 2012 I have a cluttered drawer of memory from my childhood television addiction, of tuning in to some late-night monster-movie show on one of our local channels. It was hosted by Elvira, the self-proclaimed Mistress of the Dark, and as a child it always left me confused. On the one hand, […]

Day 303: It’s A Life! It’s A Life! The Karloff Story

originally published October 29, 2012 I have been asked by hundreds (or more accurately, two) people whether or not I plan on running a series of spooky-themed articles in the days leading up to Halloween. My response has ranged from “I haven’t decided yet” to “who are you, and why are you in my bathroom?” […]

Day 302: The Pixelated Madness Of Advergaming, Part 2

originally published October 28, 2012 Last weekend I re-discovered some of the more blatant attempts to sell product through pandering and often sub-par video games. It almost seems as though these corporations thought so little of their target demographic that they believed we’d play anything with colorful graphics and pretty bleeps, then turn around and […]