Every once in a while I’ll read something that restores my faith that writers are important. Something that’s so true, so authentic, and so universal that it needed to be written, and read, by as many human beings as possible. This is that in a nutshell.
I listen to conversations. A lot. Hell, one of [...]

Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since that sad scrap of humanity has been mentioned on this blog.
UPDATE: The witty and smart Lindsay Robertson has the best [...]

Writing on the Internet is funny. You can cook up a post in a couple hours and watch it generate national controversy, then spend a month reporting an actual edited piece (on a far more controversial subject) and watch it barely splash the surface before sinking into Google-able obscurity.
Such was the case with this [...]

Alright, so admittedly I fanned the flames on purpose this time with this. But it’s important that the true bullshit vortex be ID-ed and brought to light: A small segment of society is exercising undue control over the larger conversation in our news media. And this is harming our freedom of speech, our national discourse, [...]

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 [...]