As we get closer to the holidays, perhaps it’s time to turn the mood to the positive, the festive. Because while it’s true that some things about the holiday season are trying and awful, there are always those things that get under you skin and, try as you might to not, you just love them. […]
December 17, 2011
History… Lego-Style!
One of the things that the Internet has done is mainstream what had previously been tucked away out of sight. Fringe interests. One of those that doesn’t involve bodily fluids, is the apparently very popular hobby of Lego Re-Enactments. There are people who do Lego re-enactments of history: Of Movies: Of Religious Text: And recently […]
December 15, 2011
Won’t You Like Me? Won’t You Really Like Me?
7 Reasons Why You Should “Like” The Byronic Man on Facebook: I like being liked. If you like something, and I like that you did, you may like knowing that. Look at that! We are exponentially increasing the happiness in the world! This could very well start a chain reaction, like a cup of water […]
December 13, 2011
Who Are You, And Why Are You Recording The Hallmark Channel?
My wife is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met. Truly. She reads Russian novels for fun. She goes to the opera and gets it. Which is not to suggest that I’m married to Lady Snootybottom of Floggingpeasant Estate or anything, she’s fun and goofy and everything. It’s just that her intellect is […]
December 11, 2011
Thanks, I’m Touched. Baffled, But Touched.
The ones that were clearly picked up at the last minute at a truck stop or airport. The ones that obviously were desired by the giver instead of the receiver. The ones that the saleman must have talked them in to. Then there are the ones that just made you wonder: has this person ever […]
December 10, 2011
Forever/Flipper Fooferaw!
Scandal! Chain clothing store Forever 21 catches heat for selling a fabricated version of a shirt Kurt Cobain wore! Also! Clearly I have recently figured out how to use the font buttons on WordPress! But more importantly: this shirt thing. Apparently, the chain store (whose name makes me kind of sad) is getting some flack […]
December 8, 2011
Your “What’s Hot For Christmas Gifts 2011” Guide
Are you tired to getting looks of disappointment and barely subdued loathing on Christmas morning? Constantly baffled that other people seem to find just that perfect gift for the people on their list? Are you getting ulcers worrying about what to get people this holiday, knowing that if you don’t spend enough on everyone you […]
December 6, 2011
#OMG Rowzbud Is, Like, A Sled!
Movie theaters have, as everyone knows, grown more and more desperate to lure people back to theaters in recent years. Attendance has particularly dropped as home theaters have grown more sophisticated and less full of awful people who won’t shut up and oh my god seriously you’re going to answer your phone? During the finale? […]
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December 18, 2011
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