People get kind of silly around babies and pets, don’t they?  Babies?  Fine.  All bets are off.  It’s like some biological imperative to let the baby know we’re not a threat by acting ridiculous.  Pets, though, people fall in to two rigid camps: ‘Getting Cutesy With Your Pets is Idiotic’ and “Mr. Barkington doesn’t see […]

As you may have seen last week, there are new images taken by the Hubble telescope from deep field. This isn’t just deep space – this is up to an estimated 13 billion years in space/time.  What they did was, instead of pointing the telescope at something, they – in what sounds like something that […]

The world’s rock bands need your help!  Clearly, the world is running out of viable names for rock bands, as the emergence of more and more strained, awful band names come up, such as !!!(pronounced “chk, chk, chk”), And They Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and Dance of the Mourning Child.  Obviously, […]

I need to learn to let it go. You’d think, after the incredibly popular movie Transformers spawned two unbelievably popular sequels, I’d just accept it.  And yet I can’t!  The idea that someone, director Michael Bay, could take a toy from the 80’s and turn it in to a movie about aliens who are living […]

This week’s Weekly Question of the Week is about winking. Yes, the wink.  The micro-second flirter, the conspirer, the communicator of inside knowledge, the facial tic that gets mistaken for sexual harassment. Also something that is hilarious when people lack the musculature to do it.  Like when little kids wink, and their entire face collapses […]

Well, St Patrick’s Day is upon us again, and you know what that means!  No, not that… No, not that either… Okay, I’ll just tell you.  It’s time for my annual Why I Don’t Like St. Patrick’s Day Buzzkill!  Yay! Yes, loyal readers, I have been – in my more dramatically self-indulgent periods – the […]

Oh, Mitt Romney.  I adore you.  You are my absolute favorite political candidate in this presidential race, and I just want you to know that.  Don’t misunderstand me – I don’t really want you to be president, but I’m enjoying your campaign so much it just makes me giddy.  You’re like a parody of the […]

Today, my friends, we take the Weekly Question of the Week up a notch.  Call it Phase Two.  Exciting, right?  Darn right.  Just wait until Phase Three.  It involves lasers. Here’s the new dealio: I’ll give you a question, or scenario, or maybe even sometimes a visual prompt. You provide an answer.  You may answer […]