Day 41: Trevor “The Punching Boxer Guy” Berbick

originally published February 10, 2012 I could have been a boxer. Of course, this would have necessitated a completely different childhood from the one I experienced, probably in a different city with different parents and a more gritty urban soundtrack playing as a dismal grey rain pierced through the neon glow of a dingy street […]

Day 40: Feeling Like A Complete Ideograph

originally published February 9, 2012 Today’s article will dance down the hallways of rhetoric, spin beneath the sparkling chandelier of discourse and pose in a graceful dip against the backdrop of propaganda. We open on the ideograph. Master debater and social critic Michael Calvin McGee coined the term in 1980, referring to certain words and […]

Day 39: Crap-Bucket Of History – President John Tyler

originally published February 8, 2012 Ask most people who John Tyler was – especially people in my corner of the non-American world, you’ll get a tiny minority who will know the answer. Congratulations, if you’re reading this article, you get to be part of that tiny minority. We meet on Thursdays; orange drink will not […]

Day 38: Made For TV (For Now) – Hollywood On The Small Screen

originally published February 7, 2012 Is there anybody left who remembers Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? Keep in mind, I don’t mean this one: I’m talking about this one: The original Killer Tomatoes remains one of the finest B-movies in that smelliest of cinema vaults – really it’s a B-movie parody of the B-movie genre. […]

Day 37: The Side-Scroller – One-Upping Video Games For 35 Years

originally published February 6, 2012 The fundamental theorem of Riemannian Geometry states that on any Riemannian manifold, there is a unique torsion-free metric connection, called the Levi-Civita connection of the given metric. This is what Wikipedia felt I should write about on a Sunday morning. Instead, I hit ‘Random Article’ once more, and now get […]

Day 36: Debating The South Park Republican

originally published February 5, 2012 Whether or not you are a fan of South Park – and I’d consider myself a fan – it’s impossible to deny that it’s a hit. Most episodes also tend to be brewed with political and topical issues. Given the show’s consistent mass appeal among the younger demographic with its […]

Day 35: Helith, And The Good, The Bad & The Grody Of Hacking

originally published February 4, 2012 Today’s article will remain on this site for roughly three and half hours, tops. By then, the hackers will have found it and destroyed it. They might go after my credit rating for good measure, but that would be akin to shooting a dead cow. I came across a group […]

Day 34: Uncovering Unschooling

originally published February 3, 2012 When I was in school – the first time, back when it was an age-appropriate activity and not simply an opportunity to be the “creepy old guy” at the back of my University classes – I would have relished the opportunity to be unschooled. Unschooling is not about liberating kids […]

Day 33: Milly Witkop Named Her Son ‘Fermin’, Yet She’s Actually Kind Of Cool

originally published February 2, 2012 To quote Wikipedia, that fair maiden who imbues me with a zesty yolk of seemingly meaningless information every day, Milly Witkop was “a Ukranian-born Jewish anarcho-syndicalist.” So why should we care? In her lifetime, Milly was not only the reigning queen of Wrong-Place-Wrong-Time, she was also a pretty sharp rebellious […]

Day 32: “What’s Your Flava” Literary Analysis

originally published February 1, 2012 Today’s seminar will deal with one of the most important poets to have emerged from England since Sir Linchley Hassbrumley of Limerick delivered to the throne his epic Poeme regarding the well-fortuned lad from Nantucket: Craig David. He unfurled this bastion of artistic purity in 2002, lending vocals through his […]