My love for horror movies has been well documented on this blog. And given my recent discovery that the Huffington Post is being trolled by controversy-starved production assistants at Fox News (more on that later), perhaps a move away from the political sphere is in order. So I’m gonna write about slasher flicks for the [...]

Second Life still creeps me out a bit, in a good way. I like being a bystander to the virtual world — it’s amazing to watch the hysterical wildness (and depravity) that humans carry out when the constraints of daily reality are lifted.
But whenever SL devotees declare they’re going to break my resistance and [...]

Not a chance. But I will sort of miss it when (if) it does go.

So Twitter. If you don’t know know what it is yet, you may soon be the only one. As with any new form of communication that sucks us all into its vortex (TV?), Twitter’s rise is bringing all sorts of criticism, with bloggers and other Web pundits (pot? kettle? black?) leaping on cyber-soap boxes to [...]

After a couple months, I’m getting used to this whole “30″ thing. At the least, it makes for a handy punchline — “I don’t have to put up with this bullshit from overcharging deliverymen/surly bus drivers/dudes in bars…I’m 30!” It’s a nice mantra, a reminder that I’m not as terminally stupid as I once was–things [...]

As much as I loathe math (as anyone who’s ever watched me struggle to add anything with 2 digits can attest) I’m gaining a new respect for it. Why? Because it’s one of the few things in the universe that humans, as much as we try, can’t fuck up. It exists separate from us, and [...]

Human beings are funny. We waltz around, prisoners in our own heads, absolutely certain that everything we think and perceive is “real,” and not just a concoction of chemicals swirling in our skulls.
Take the classic “white Toyota” example: You spend your waking hours cruising along the roads, noticing other cars in a “I could [...]

But he does pretty much embody everything a woman could want in a partner:

“Michelle is a tremendously strong person, and has a very strong sense of herself and who she is and where she comes from. But I also think in her eyes you can see a trace of vulnerability that most people don’t [...]

There’s something brilliant about six word memoirs. Paring an experience down to its simplest element can be cathartic, forcing you to shave off all the messy emotions and perceptions that calcify around your memory of What Actually Happened. So when I heard about the first anthology of six word memoirs, I thought it was a [...]

If you haven’t made the pilgrimage to Obamaland and/or you’re not currently steeling your bladder and freezing your appendages off on the Mall, get thee to a cable or network news broadcast. And preferably one on a big screen — let’s face it, the Internet may not do this one justice.