It’s kind of funny how synergy works. Just the other week I was musing about “princesses” and the problems they can present, and now, the always reliable JoCo releases a new song addressing the same general topic. The words of Coulton himself: I wrote a song called “The Princess Who Saved Herself” because my daughter [...]

Happy Birthday, kid!

Not been a good week in terms of working conditions. The air conditioning system in my part of the office has been out of commission all week, and it’s been hotter and more humid inside than out all week. There’s definitely something wrong when going outside into the 100+° with the heat index Virginia summer [...]

Yes, there are words on this image, violating the whole “worth 1000 words” dictum, but in this case, the picture (with words) really expresses what’s wrong with the the ubiquity of the kind of things soulless corporations are marketing to our children (and worse, that we let them). Just take a look (click it so [...]

Last year (YiB 2009, #5), I went against my better judgment and read Twilight to see what all the fuss was about. Based on what I’d gleaned from the pop culture currents, I was pretty sure it wasn’t something that was going to appeal to me. And, I was basically right. For many reasons, I [...]

Long-time readers of this space are probably aware of my general cynicism toward broadcast media, mostly to do with the fact that the “news” isn’t really much about disseminating useful information than about selling advertising slots, and with vast swaths of the american public, the most effective ways of raising ratings (to get eyeballs on [...]

Happy Birthday, kid. Enjoy the eleventh.

Yes, it’s that fateful Friday every year where I get to start resenting my kids because they don’t have to get up early every Monday through Friday for a couple of months, and I still do… THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL™!!! Oh well, nothing to be done about it. Still, it’s cool another year’s gone [...]

Author Jeremy Robinson in his piece at io9 dealing with conflicting feelings about the resurgence of 80s pop culture treasures in modern media really hits on a common truth for many of us of a certain geeky vintage. GI:JOE. Transformers. Battlestar Galactica. V. The A-Team. Voltron. Thundercats. The Smurfs. It’s everywhere. Everything old is new [...]

All the bot comments in my spam folder this weekend seemed oddly impressed with my “great jeans” for some reason. In a way, I’m glad my jeans are great, because for whatever reason, I feel like crap…damn these random virii. The weekend was nothing special, though thanks to the magic of Netflix Instant Watch, I [...]