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The ultimate Venn Diagram

Naturally, Steve Miller sits at the very center of this one. The only issue that I have with it is that Miller’s identities are all self-identified, while the others don’t seem to be. Now we just need to wait for … Continue reading →

Batman Lashes Out at the Other Members of the Justice League of America After Spending the Weekend at the Jack Nicholson Film Festival

by Mark A. Rayner You know, I’m getting a little tired of all the snide remarks about the way I fight crime. We live in a world that has villains, and those villains have to be defeated by men with … Continue reading →

Ask General Kang: What do you do when your planet runs out of resources?

What do I do? Shouldn’t you be asking what will you do? What I do is charge up the power cells in my Interstellar Ape-arda, fill the ships with hordes of über-chimps hungry for adventure and loot, and set course … Continue reading →

Signs the singularity is already here

I knew it! Though this still isn’t as terrifying as a supra-intelligent self-aware Internet only talking to one web developer via text on his web-enabled fridge. (And using Comic Sans to boot.) Check out The Fridgularity here. We can only … Continue reading →

Nosferadude

Vampire fiction was my education. It was all I was allowed to sink my teeth into when I was young. And when I was just a little boy, I loved it.  My mom introduced me to the vampire Lestat, and … Continue reading →

A Reluctant Emcee

The stun bolt struck near me, and I was flying through the air. My hair crackled with static electricity. My vision went red. Quite possibly I soiled my expensive trousers. Did any of that worry me? No, I had much … Continue reading →

In your FACE, Proust!

Though I’m not sure the cartoon below has the elegance of the madeleine episode from The Remembrance of Lost Time (the first volume of which I’ve actually read), this cartoon below wins on brevity. If you want to save yourself … Continue reading →

Henry’s long ride with death

Henry rode with Death his entire life, but it never really cramped his style. For the most part, other people couldn’t see Death, hanging on his coat-tails wherever he went, and whatever he did. It was usually the very old … Continue reading →

The Fridgularity wins IRDA award for best humor book

Exciting news announced at Book Expo America (BEA): The Fridgularity won the IndieReader.com Discovery Award (IRDA) for best humor, 2013. Hugh Howey, bestselling indie author of WOOL and Amy Edelman, founder of IndieReader, announced the winners of the 2013  awards … Continue reading →

How Iron Man 3 should have ended [spoilers!]

I know you’ve probably already seen this on i09, but hell, sometimes you just have to put a youtube clip up in lieu of original content. Excellent parody/pointing out of massive plot holes. (Plus a good dig at Batman’s 7-year … Continue reading →