You know what, It’s been months since I’ve gotten lazy enough to throw up a collection of random musings and links to things I thought were interesting and/or amusing! Let’s do it!

♦ – The bike commute this week was pretty damned scary. My nerves are a bit frazzled after nearly getting hit four or five times in three days, despite lots of flashing lights and my reflective hi-viz yellow cycling jersey.

♦ – Here’s a great illustration from my comicon acquaintance Dan Nokes from 21st Century Sandshark Studios of the Avengers as Teddy Bears, created for this weekend’s Pittsburgh Comicon charity auction:

♦ – Amanda Marcotte is actually pretty much right on with this piece about how conservatism is largely based on selfishness and mean-spiritedness, particularly regarding how young people and students in particular are being hammered in the current and political and economic climate.

♦ – According to this “article”, I am simultaneously sensitive and emotionally vacant. Kind of digging the whole “Dr. Evil” potential, though.

♦ – The Badlees have a new greatest hits collection coming out this weekend, and Bret’s been posting the stories behind each of the tracks on the band’s blog leading up to the release. They’re worth reading.

♦ – If you like fun, you really should be watching Tabletop with Wil Wheaton on Geek and Sundry. This show has already cost me fifty bucks in board game purchases.

♦ – It really sucked this week that I was like five miles from Dulles on Tuesday, yet was stuck in a conference room with no windows during the Shuttle Discovery flyover. Thank goodness for twitter and it’s #SpotTheShuttle hashtag. Our whole meeting was following along.

♦ – Hark, it’s the Game of Thrones Drinking Game!. Hangover is coming. Hodor!

♦ – Joss Whedon is having a pretty good summer. Also – go see The Cabin in the Woods…Just Go, like now. Trust me.

♦ – I really hope that out there somewhere, there’s a roller derby girl jetting under the name “Downtown Abby”.

♦ – For the music fan out there, here’s a non-wizard rock song from the fun and amiable wizard rock combo The Blibbering Humdingers:

Yeah, that’s probably enough links and stuff for now. Hope you found something here amusing.