It's that time of year again, friends!

Blake gets ready to go back to school! 

Before I begin, friends, I've got a quick announcement about Think About It. I announced  a while back that the column would be switching from Fridays to Saturdays and, obviously, that hasn't happened. I thought I'd be able to maintain that schedule, but the honest-to-God truth is... I've been writing Think About It since my third year of college. ( Read more... )

I am a geek. If this information is even remotely surprising to you, I can only assume that you have never read this column before. However, I’m not the sort of geek who has a slavish devotion to a single fandom. I admire the Trekkies and Trekkers of this world, whose love of a single aspect of Geek Culture is so great that they war over exactly ( Read more... )

Here we are again, friends, another Saturday, another Think About It... and it's time to delve back into the Mailbag. It's time, once again, to answer the flurry of e-mail questions sent in by you, the Highly Educated Readers, and neither the questions nor the answers should be even slightly diminished by the fact that they are, in fact, entirely ( Read more... )

The eminently wise Shepherd Derrial Book was once quoted as saying that there is a very special level of Hell. One reserved, he said, for “child molesters and people who talk at the theater.” Last night, I spent the evening with several of that level’s future inhabitants.

I got together with some of my friends to catch a movie last night. This is ( Read more... )

Here we are, friends. It's been over two months now, with no end in sight. We at home sit, watch, waiting for this most dramatic conflict in the history of the human condition to finally reach its resolution, and we're almost to the point where we don't even care who wins anymore. All we know is that we can't get any new episodes of Chuck, and it's ( Read more... )

Just a quick announcement, friends: this is my third semester as a teacher, and as such, it's a ridiculously busy time. I'm taking night classes, and I've got a huge portfolio project due next week, plus NaNoWriMo AND my plans to try to launch a Christmas-themed podiobook before December starts (more on that later) all on top of -- y'know -- ( Read more... )

Well, friends, another Halloween has come and gone. The candy has all been given out (and in most cases, devoured), the costumes are back in the closet, and people go back to staring at you funny if you walk around in a cape and mask instead of talking abuot how cute you are. I found this out the hard way. so with November staring us in the face, ( Read more... )

 
It’s the final Friday of October, my friends, the final Think About It Column in the Halloween Party. You’ve spent 26 days now reading reviews and silly articles about toys, listening to podcasts, and in fact there are still five days of them left. But with Friday’s column staring me in the face, I was at something of a loss as to what to write. ( Read more... )

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