After numerous attempts to validate my sense of humor in the Free-Lance Star cartoon caption contest, I have finally made the Final 4. Please click through and vote for the one starting with, “Finally, somebody who understands…” http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/toontalk/2012/02/08/caption-contest-156-finalists/ If you don’t think mine is the funniest, vote for it anyway Voting ends at noon on [...]
The latest Hardcore History podcast elegantly covers about 500 years of history in four years; from the Fall of Rome in the 476 CE through the general Christianization of the Germanic tribes shortly before the Crusades. Coincidently, my son and I spent about 4 hours in the car driving back and forth to Richmond this [...]
I just watched two hours of the most brilliant film making ever put to “film.” Star Wars uncut takes home made fan recreations of Star Wars from 405 film makers (I counted in the credits) to produce a scene by scene recreation of Star Wars. It goes from fairly serious attempts to recreate the movie [...]
Oscar Wilde’s only published novel was a bit of scandal when it came out over 100 years ago. I’m not sure my pedestrian command of the English language is really sufficient to review such a richly written book. An unexplained event sets young, dashingly handsome Dorian Gray up in a situation where a painting of [...]
This is not a cookbook. It’s the print companion to the first 5 seasons of Good Eats. It does include recipes from each episode, which makes it handy for looking up that thing he did with shrimp in season 3. It’s much quicker than trying to navigate the Food Network website. It’s also includes lots [...]
In 2005 I was interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle. I was asked: “If there are 50 beers on tap, what do you order?” I answered, “Something out of a bottle. via Amazon Kindle: Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing FT Press Science. Only January 2 and [...]
Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars. via Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews.
The kids and myself headed to the mountains this AM for a 8 mile circuit hike of Old Rag. I’m not going to lie to you Marge, it wasn’t the easiest hike we’ve done. Steeply up for the first 3 miles, with lots of rock hopping, actual hand over hand rock climbing, and several leaps [...]
When you can fit 20,000 songs on a thumb drive, and 1000 books on a Kindle, the concept of a “collection” becomes sort of meaningless. I was thinking about this recently as I scrolled through my MP3 collection, wondering where the heck some of the stuff on my server even came from. Back in the [...]
Regular readers know that I am a big Butch Walker fan. So it did not take me long to ante up for his first book, Drinking With Strangers. It’s insightful, occasionally touching, but mostly it’s just damn funny. We learn how a hair metal band can sign a $400,000 contract yet still be essentially living [...]
For the first time since I was about 13 years old, I don’t have ESPN on cable. The Red Sox were on last night. I do , however, have ESPN3 vis the Xbox, and the Red Sox game was streaming live. It was sort of a different game watching experience. First of all, the Xbox [...]
I logged into online chat with DISH Network this morning with the intent of canceling my service and going cable free. The plan was the use the $80 a month savings to fund the $300+ I would need to put a antenna on the roof. I live over 50 miles from the TV towers, so [...]
Sometimes a bubble gum pop song is exactly what you want to hear. Pair it with Harry Potter inspired lyrics and you get this.
The first song from the new Butch Walker album. I hope he tours in my neighborhood again this time. If you haven’t been to a Butch Walker show you are missing out. Big time.
My Queensryche roots go deep. Real deep. As in I owned a cassette copy of their EP before their first full length album was even available. (1983?) I have all their records, so there was never any doubt that I would buy Dedicated to Chaos on day 1. So trust me when I say I [...]