Youtube music videos made with World of Warcraft animation. God, just stop, people. There is no possible way to improve the experience of any song by making a World of Warcraft video about it. None. Zero. Zilch. De nada. No, not even that one Jonathan Coulton song you really, really like – you know, the […]

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Quite possibly the best comprehensive analysis of the Democratic Super Tuesday races on the entire goddamned internets.

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ZeroHouse. Of course, there’s the question of expense, but… damn that is cool. All you have to do is park it somewhere; it’s like a trailer home, except future-awesome. (In the year 2120, rednecks will live in ZeroHouses.)

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I know I still have a few more questions to answer from a couple weeks back, and I’m gonna get to them sometime this week, but somebody recently asked in comments what I thought about “Old Man Logan.” Short short version: oh boy, The Dark Knight Returns with Wolverine, except grittier and meaner. Check.

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I have a (very stupid) essay due in two and a half days. I did not need to discover this game.

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My mon Bahlactus don’ shiv.

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Tip of the hat to Jim Smith, without whom I totally would have missed this: Over the past month a new Axis of Evil has emerged — not one based in Damascus, Tehran or Pyongyang — but instead in Cedar Rapids, Charleston, South Carolina, Derry, New Hampshire and Boca Raton, Florida. No, seriously. He’s not […]

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I was watching the Democratic debate just now, and Hillary Clinton suggested that having a woman President would “change the world.” Pretty obviously in response to the fact that the Obama campaign excites people because, hey, potential black president, that’s a big deal. Look, I hate to have to be the one to say it, […]

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Well, if Obama loses the Democratic nomination, it’s certainly not going to be for lack of funding. $32 million on January, with 170,000 new donors? That’s insane.

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FACT. The Count lives in a large, Gothic-ish castle on a lonely hillside. FACT. There are no large, Gothic-ish castles upon lonely hillsides in New York City. FACT. The Count does not have a job in the city. THUS. The Count has no actual reason to enter into New York City bar his own wishes. […]

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1.) Is it just me, or does the cowboy star look uncannily like George W. Bush? 2.) Who, come to think, is also a fake cowboy. 3.) In the Golden Days of Hollywood, “pen” was a codeword for “heroin.” 4.) In 1948, $2.25 was “America’s best value” for a pen? I can get a perfectly […]

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I don’t generally think highly of most mechanima movies (Red Vs. Blue is about the only good one), but this one is really clever (in a melancholy way, no less) and well done. Anytime you can tell what the character is thinking with such a limited range of animation, you know you’re dealing with storytellers […]

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Every so often, I get emails from people saying “they heard” [x], asking for my opinion. Which is flattering, but honestly – I have practically no contacts within the comics industry. (I have a few in film and TV, but no, I don’t know what’s going to happen with Smallville this season. Honestly, I’m happy […]

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Beautiful Girls is something of a rarity, because it is a guy movie. By this, I do not mean it is an action movie, which for some reason has become the accepted definition of “guy movie,” despite the fact that women can enjoy a good action movie just as well as men can. (Men, to […]

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