I really can’t imagine having the time to pull something this OCD-nerdy together, but there’s somebody out there who has built a comprehensive timeline of the Marvel Movie Universe. By spending hours and hours scouring DVDs with a finger on the pause button to grab dates from bakground newspaper pages and calendars, this guy has […]

Witness, friends, a ten second teaser released to promote a 30 second commercial promoting a theatrical film? Okay. This is getting maybe a little ridiculous. Still, it’s The Avengers. I’m going to be there.

Apologies up front for the almost-certain crap quality of this post; I woke up this morning feeling, shall we say, pretty awful, and that will probably color just about everything I produce throughout the day, at least. So, sorry. Still, stuff and adventures and things happened this weekend, so I feel I ought to chronicle […]

Heading out to the convention for a couple of days. Don’t wait up. MarsCon Ho!* _______________ * – for the record, my body is not for sale at the convention…unless your offer is really good.

Presented forthwith are several short notices of a personal nature. Feel free to enjoy: – Thanks to the kind reminders from my amazing convention friends via the various social networking services, my head’s kind of been in con space all week. As it stands, there are only 36 hours or so until I arrive at […]

So, although I opened the year with something of a political personal reflection thing, I suspect at least some people are interested in the more mundane “what I did” sort of posts around here. Those are useful for me, because it helps me remember when I actually did things, and it lets me share some […]

Yesterday was a low-key affair, we all actually kind of slept in – presents weren’t getting well and truly cracked until after 8am. We went more for quality than quantity this year, which is perfectly fine with me. I got, among other things, a very fine, home made Jayne Cobb hat, some new pants, a […]

It’s been a while since I’ve really gotten away from it all. It was time. My friend Jason and I spent Saturday hiking a little piece of the Appalachian Trail through Shenandoah National Park in Western Virginia. As you can see above, it was an excellent day for a hike in the mountains, even if […]

If there’s a theme this time around, it’s the idea that you can draw lines between all kinds of things, and despite the existence categories like “rock”, “country”, “r&b” or whatever, a lot of interesting stuff happening in the brackish areas where the borders bump up against each other. Each of these records, quite accidentally […]

The preponderance of little but cat videos for the last week should tell you all something. I took a little break from the grind. Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve traditionally worked with the kind of person who hosted their family’s Thanksgiving feast, so I’ve usually been the guy who stayed around […]