Last week I came across something so perfectly ironic it absolutely floored me. It filled me with a warm fuzzy feeling, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

I'm sure any of you reading this must be partially familiar with the X-men. You know, the super-hero team that faces discrimination and bigotry, essentially serving as one ( Read more... )

 Have not posted in almost a year. Mostly because I've started working on my thesis, which has taken up nearly all the time I used to have devoted to writing. I do miss it, especially since I've let some people down because I had to stop. But I need to write a thesis to, you know, graduate and make the past four years not a waste of time ( Read more... )

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Is it me or does this commercial have some rather disturbing implications?

Haven't posted lately, due to my recent move back to Texas. Yes, I'm back in San Marcos, and will discuss my post DC impressions soon. In the meantime, I thought I'd see if any of you were familiar with "Alien Voices."

"Alien Voices" is a theatrical company owned by Leonard Nimoy and John DeLancie, who put on radio-style plays. They've put radio ( Read more... )

New Monkey Island game!

"The Secret of Monkey Island" was one of the first, and best, computer games I ever played. The puzzles were challenging, the characters engaging, and the writing...mmmmmmh. With all due respect to Captain Jack Sparrow, Guybrush Threepwood will always be my favorite pirate of the Caribbean!

And 10 years later, there making ( Read more... )

Friday night I had a date where I did something a little out of the ordinary, or should I say a lot out of the ordinary--I went to "Artomatic," D.C.'s month-long art festival featuring local artists, music groups, film screening, and dance performances. Some of the exhibits were done and others...not so.

There were of course, the naked men, naked ( Read more... )

This is kind of freaking me out.

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Either I've been posting youtube videos in my sleep, or I just found my evil twin. Or maybe my good twin. it's hard to tell since we both have facial hair.

I'm not that familiar with rapper Kanye West. The only real image I have of him is from South Park's "Fishsticks" episode, which was apparently right on the money.


He's writing a book.

I would not have a problem with this, except that he proudly declares himself a non-reader who doesn't respect books. "I like to get information from doing stuff like ( Read more... )

I think I just had my first walk of shame.

A friend of mine already posted this on his lj, and I felt like sharing because it fills me with happiness.

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The video is to promote a new game that's out, that I now want to own.