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December 31, 2014
2014 in review: The Phil Factor
Much like the President having to make his tax return public, I’m making my blog report public. Thank you everyone for stopping by to read and comment all year. I hope you enjoyed my idiocy enough to come back again next year. Have a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve tonight. Read the slightly altered excerpt below the picture and then if you want read the full report by clicking the link below.
Here’s an excerpt:
The 20,000 views is nice, but if we’re all being honest with ourselves, I know yo...
December 30, 2014
Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Incredibly True Predictions for 2015
I’m psychic. A soothsayer if you will. Today I’m using my awesome powers of psychitude to give you a vaguely believable list of predictions that you can bank on occurring during 2015. Here they are:
10. The World will not end: I wanted to get this one out of the way to put your mind at ease. I would say go ahead and make long term plans and save for next year’s vacation, but the world making it through another year doesn’t mean that you will. Proceed with caution. Floss and eat your vegetables...
December 29, 2014
Everybody Have Fun Today, Everybody Wang Chung Today!
I’m not going to share this post with Facebook or Twitter. I’m too embarrassed. Not as embarrassed as Wang Chung should be. Yesterday I was in my car with my iPod connected and playing on shuffle when the Wang Chung song “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” came on. For you kids out there who weren’t alive in the 1980’s Wang Chung had two popular songs that were played ad nauseum for years. Embarrassingly, I liked them and downloaded them to my iPod at some point in the last eight years. Not the wors...
December 27, 2014
The Super-Annoying Friends!
Image courtesy DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera
When I was a kid there was a cartoon called The Super Friends. It involved Superman, Batman & Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman working together to fight evil. I dreamed of becoming one of the Super Friends one day and maybe casually dating Wonder Woman. As I grew up I realized two things; when I got older, Wonder Woman would also be older and maybe not filling out that low-cut suit quite as well. I also realized that we all have Super Friends too, exce...
December 26, 2014
Secrets of a D-List Supervillain by Jim Bernheimer
My friend Jim Bernheimer, whom I had an interview with here just 12 days ago just released the third in his D-List series yesterday. If you like the “down on his luck”, ambiguously moral protagonist, has Jim got a series of books for you!
Don’t really try to look inside that book. I just pulled the picture from Amazon. Jim’s books are funny, suspenseful and action packed, almost if a comic book were turned into a novel. They’re fun reads and Jim’s a good guy, so go try one of his books. The th...
December 25, 2014
Happy Holidays from The Phil Factor
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone! Thank you to my friend Gooby whose photoshop wizardry made this great picture possible.
Tagged: The Phil Factor, Wordless Wednesday
December 24, 2014
Wordless Wednesday! Happy Birthday to Gooby!
Happy Birthday to my lifelong friend on whom the character Gooby in my books was loosely based. Have a great Wednesday! ~Phil
December 23, 2014
Top Ten Tuesday! The Ten Best Holiday Specials of All Time
This may be the most debated and most important top ten list of all time. Feel free to chip in with your opinions in the comments. Here is my criteria for qualification for this list: This is a list of “specials”, not movies or Christmas episodes from TV series. To be a special it must be no longer than one hour and not part of a series.
10. Rudolph’s Shiny New Year:This piece of crap has been played every year since 1976. I think I accidentally watched it once as a child and vowed to never wa...
December 21, 2014
Hanukkah For Dummmies
A brilliantly hilarious and educational poem by my friend Marissa of Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth.
Originally posted on Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth:
In 168 BC,
Things looked badly for the Jews,
It seemed the Greek emperor,
Wanted them to worship Zeus.
The Jews they didn’t like this,
And the Jews said, “Oy yoy yoy,
Who is this meshuggeneh?
I think that he’s a goy!”
And so the Jews did dissent,
To the mountains they did flee,
And this brave group of rebels,
Were known as the Ma...
