Day 291: A Hasty, Half-Assed Article About Military Robots

originally published October 17, 2012 Today’s article is about military robots. Why am I writing about military robots? Simple – I don’t care about military robots. I care about butler-robots, rapping robots and sex robots (don’t worry honey, I’m only interested in the articles). I read through the article about military robots on Wikipedia. It’s […]

Day 290: Op-Art – Beauty You Can Squint At

originally published October 16, 2012 Is it a sign of my maturity that my taste in art has evolved? I now see beauty in the great masters, and find myself moved by the color and composition of inventive modernity. But there was a time in my life when great art was defined by whether or […]

Day 289: An Evening Of Duo Cocktails

originally published October 15, 2012 Here are three perfectly good reasons I plan on drinking tonight: It’s Monday. Not only Monday, but it’s the Monday of a five-day week – the first of four consecutive five-day weeks until my next long weekend. It still baffles me that, as an advanced society, we have not yet […]

Day 288: My Childhood School Of Witchcraft And Pinball Wizardry

originally published October 14, 2012 I don’t get a lot of complaints about my subject matter. Sure, sometimes I’ll prattle on a little about a particular brand of beer, or that palpable connection between the ethereal concept of heaven and the visceral world when one’s teeth crunch into that first stick of bacon on a […]

Day 287: The Funkified Hipsters Of Soul

originally published October 13, 2012 Were it not for my stunning lack of dance-floor coordination, I think I may have found the genre of music which could be my perfect match: Northern Soul. The ‘North’ in Northern Soul says nothing about where the music was recorded, nor does it necessarily distinguish a specific style from […]

Day 286: Bungled Justice – The Scott Sisters

originally published October 12, 2012 Every once in a while, the justice system incurs what we might call a ‘hiccup’ in logic. Surprisingly, this can occasionally occur in Mississippi, which I have always believed to be a state known for its progressive intellectualism, its groundbreaking racial tolerance, and its dependable inability to understand sarcasm. For […]

Day 285: Mr. Special Effects

originally published October 11, 2012 Sure, James Cameron’s Avatar is a fine piece of computer graphics show-offery. And somehow, the decades-old Terminator 2 still looks sharp and impressive. What George Lucas did to ‘improve’ the original Star Wars trilogy is up for debate, and I’m sure someday the internet will get around to discussing it, […]

Day 284: Superstar Mortality-Battle! Australian Folklore Creatures Edition

originally published October 10, 2012 (note: today’s article is in no way affiliated with MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch, so there is no point in informing their lawyers. No really, put down that phone.) Tonight on Superstar Mortality-Battle, we’re going to see who puts the “AU!!!” in Australian; who puts the “END” in Legendary; who puts the […]

Day 283: Justifying An Unjust World

originally published October 9, 2012 Do you believe in karma? If so, you may be more damaged than you’d thought. Or maybe you’re more healthy than others who hold no such faith in the universal balance. Or perhaps you’re exactly as mentally unstable as you deserve to be. The Just-World Hypothesis is the belief that […]

Day 282: A Columbus Day / Thanksgiving Quiz – Cereal Mascots

originally published October 8, 2012 On this sacred holiday, we North Americans gather around a hearty feast of turkey, stuffing and gravy and either give thanks that Christopher Columbus set sail to bring an October long weekend to America, or that someone in Canadian history decided to rip off an American tradition and bring Thanksgiving […]