Every day, we have a new wave of bad news that hit us in the face from cable television, news websites, and social media. In 2020, those waves feel like tsunamis. Between the bushfires in Australia, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, skyrocketing unemployment, and the ongoing civil unrest across the United States, it can feel like the world is about ( Read more... )

With the murder of George Floyd and the resulting unrest in Minneapolis dominating the news this past week, it has created a tense atmosphere across social media, even more than before. And as always, the loudest voices are the most polarizing ones with some proclaiming that All Cops Are Bastards and some proclaiming that looters should be shot on ( Read more... )

To Quasi Skunk,

For the first decade of LAFFBall, it was a booming success with many hours put in by the organizers promoting and umpiring the monthly event. Despite a move from Waukegan to Lombard that alienated many from Wisconsin, numbers and participation continued to grow. However, in the past couple of years, attendance has been in a sharp ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I posted a map of all furry cons in the United States to my Twitter account. As of this posting, the original tweet has 80+ favorites and 30+ retweets. I've received several questions and some criticism over the map. As a result, I want to explain the critieria I used to put this together.

First off, the source for the data is from ( Read more... )

I’ve been accused of a lot of things in my life, some from misinformation, some from simple miscommunications, and some from sociopaths with a black heart. Generally, I will either try to correct people or just laugh it off. However, there are times when people are so determined to ruin your name, you have to stand up and fight back. This is one of ( Read more... )

Ok. Without knowing physical descriptions, which of the following five characters would you most like to play? Keep in mind, these are fursuit characters, so talking is strongly discouraged ( Read more... )

All 30 conference champions have been crowned, several in dramatic fashion. Fresno State won the WAC with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 13th. Manhattan needed extras to win the MAAC. Samford needed 11 innings to win the SoCon. UCLA needed to hold off USC to win the Pac-12 title. Yesterday, Purdue took the Big Ten Championship after a ( Read more... )

Two days ago, I claimed that the conference baseball tournaments in May made the conference basketball tournaments look tame in comparison. After two days filled to the brim with upset after upset, the bubble looks a lot different and is much smaller. The only teams who have played their way into the NCAA Tournament talk are teams who needed to win ( Read more... )

All across the country, conference baseball tournaments are taking place as I write this entry. From the Norwich, Connecticut down to Clearwater, Florida out to Las Vegas, Nevada, teams are fighting for their conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. From experience I can tell you, if college basketball has madness in March, college ( Read more... )

Two weeks until FCN ( Read more... )