Day 227: The Hasbro Conspiracy

originally published August 14, 2012 On the surface, Hasbro brings joy and smiles to hundreds of billions of people every second by giving Shortcake to our Strawberry, Action to our Figures, Ladders to our Chutes, and Head to our Mr. Potato. But underneath lies something more insidious, more… well, I don’t want to say evil, […]

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Day 159: Playing With Your Pee

originally published June 7, 2012 Tired of peeing like a common schnook? Do I have a treat for you. If you’re like me, and I believe wholeheartedly that you totally are, you find urinating to be a dull, uninspiring task. “Why is it,” I have often asked myself, out loud and in a mezzo-soprano Scottish […]

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Day 147: Spoiling Magic – Three Card Tricks To Impress The Young Or Feeble-Minded

originally published May 26, 2012 Wikipeida is not merely a wonderful resource for information and finding out if old celebrities are still alive (you go, Abe Vigoda!), but it can also be employed to shatter childhood wonder. Gone are the days when some guy in a top hat can convince me that there are otherworldly […]

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Day 127: Bad Video Game Art

originally published May 6, 2012 Are video games an art form? If you ask Roger Ebert, his answer would be a resounding “no.” But I would argue that there is art involved in the game world, whether it’s designing a likeable protagonist character, an immersive and often colorful environment, and even in designing the game’s […]

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