Alan, Byron, and Cammy stand at the end of a line in the snow. Alan looks pissed off, Byron looks cold, and Cammy looks tipsy. A: Why are we here? […]
Four Sentences to Avoid in Mad Science
Take a look at this scenario: This man’s life used to be in order. Now he’s making an army of giant radioactive jungle fauna. Within moments, a protagonist will be […]
Five Top Five of 2011 Lists
Five Worst Songs “Moves like Jagger” by Maroon 5 – Maroon 5 somehow found a way to get worse. I have a habit of comparing bad pop music to venereal […]
Youtube’s Guide to Constructive Feedback
As a freshman, I made this Nostalgia Critic ripoff. It was fashionable at the time. The video has a long laundry list of problems. The topic is dull, the audio […]
Metaphysical Therapy: 11 Obscure Religions
I’m neutral towards the gods, spirits, and saints of the global religious canon. Pascal offered me a wager, but I don’t gamble. Like many others, I enjoy my pork and […]
Cynic’s Guide to Comic Book Movies: DC/Vertigo
Batman: The Movie Proof that idiots will always try to elevate themselves over wit they will never understand by making a “shark repellant” joke every time Adam West is mentioned. […]
A Cynic’s Guide to Comic Book Movies: Marvel
Blade Wesley Snipes makes vampires cool again. Look where that got us. Blade 2 & Trinity Every possible camera angle for stabbing a vampire is used and reused. Spider-Man Peter […]
At the Library, Midterm Edition
Leon: Are you already done with everything? Maxine: No, I’ve got to write three papers in about two days. Leon: Why were you playing Arkham City all week? Maxine: Why […]
Occupy Arson
Enough real analysis has been done on Occupy Wall Street that throwing my hat into the ring would only make me look like an idiot. So in lieu of commentary, […]
A Snapshot
I’m in a Princeton lecture hall. It can hold around two hundred people. Right now, there are about sixty. Over eighty signed up for the class. The class is about […]