( BRACKET FEVER! )

This weekend I experienced the sublime, uncomfortable joy of hearing 75 people trying desperately not to laugh ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, uh...hey, wait a minute! The 1976 Super DC Calendar doesn't list anything for today. Lazy-ass DC writers, trying to convince me no one in the multiverse was born on January 6th? Uh uh, y'all, I ain't goin' out like that. I hereby declare that today is the day to wish a happy birthday to Tom "Pieface" Kalmaku ( Read more... )

And now, for Mr. Jonathan Morris of South Central AZ, today's installment of NAMES TO CONJURE WITH!

1. Captain Compass
2. The Human Target
3. Jason Bard
4. Johnny Peril
5. Jonny Double
6. The King
7. King Faraday
8. Midnight
9. Slam Bradley
10. Tim Trench

Our Settlers of Catan game board arrived yesternight. It's actually pretty damn cool; the pieces fit in perfectly on a light, thin, portable board, and the way it's laid out, there's no need for the edge pieces, which I've always found awkward. It's built for Settlers instead of Cities & Knights, so there's no slots for a few of the cards, and ( Read more... )

Inspired by the genius of "Less Than Hero", the episode of Futurama where Fry, Leela and Bender become superheroes, I spent some time in a traffic jam (thanks, IDOT, for installing a pointless stop sign at a three-way intersection on California) writing retarded theme songs for superhero teams that don't have one. ( Read the 'New Justice Team' theme from Futurama. )

NERDS! By the truckload! One per truckload, please, they're huge! God, I've forgotten how many nerds there are, and how nerdy. There are a lot more women than I remember from the last time I was at a con (when I was, oh, 20), and a lot more people of color, but also the exact same amount of morbidly obese bearded sweaty guys who talk a lot ( Read more... )

Okay, bitches! Who at Wizard World gonna be is?

You know the problem with your picking amateur celebrity fan art for my next icon set? The problem with your picking amateur celebrity fan art for my next icon set is that it necessitates me doing Google searches that might result in my accidentally discovering something like this page of pornographic "ThunderCats" drawings, and then I have to ( Read more... )

So, any of you nerds going to WizardWorld (Chicago) this year? I ask because I'm trying to get a drug gang together to hit Kevin Smith with crowbars.