Well, another Black Friday has come and gone, and once again the news is filled with hilarious pictures of people causing their fellow humans bodily harm to get to a DVD player.  (Correction!  A DVD player that’s 20% off!) Maybe you love Black Friday, maybe you hate it, maybe you hate it but are drawn […]

I am thankful to have the whole family together this holiday evening, especially those who haven’t spoken to each other for so long, to share this special meal. I am thankful for this wonderful looking turkey, and the honor of carving it. I am thankful to hear the constant joyful shrieking of so many children.  […]

Today marks one year of The Byronic Man being online.  Hurray for me!  One year of not shooting myself in the foot, and not abandoning it.  Phew.  I did a few posts before launching it initially, so that when the legions of people flocked to it immediately upon creation there’d be several posts for them […]

It’s time for another Weekly Question of the Week (which may or may not appear weekly)!  Your chance to mull over a theoretical, ultimately meaningless question! Fan or not, I think we can all agree that pro-wrestlers and roller derby competitors tend to have pretty awesome names.  Wrestlers like The Undertaker, Macho Man Savage, Big […]

Dear NASA, I read this morning that you are currently taking applications to be an astronaut.  I was under the impression you were making a lot of cutbacks so I’m not sure how this is possible, but I stopped reading after the “Now Hiring” part because I wanted to get my resume in right away. […]

President Obama attended the APEC summit yesterday, as part of the important international exchange of whatever the thing is that happens at this summit.  There’s probably something about trade agreements, though it seems to revolve largely around shirts.  Lots of matching shirts.  I’ve never understood the shirt thing (at conferences and whatnot.  I’m pretty clear […]

A little something different for a (hopefully) lazy Sunday morning.  Possibly a regular Sunday feature – Your Weekly Question Of The Week, in which I’ll pose Your Weekly Question Of The Week Question.  I’ll throw out a question for you to mull about, and then maybe you leave your thoughts.  We share, we laugh, we […]

Hey, everyone, how are things?  How’s your week?  Anything interesting happen?  Uh-huh.  Uh-huh.  Uh-huh.  Wow, that’s great but Oh my god listen to what happened to me! So, my mother-in-law has gone out of town for a few days, and we’ve been taking care of her house – feeding the pets, picking up mail, feeding […]