My Snowtober

Not very often you see snow in October. Pretty crazy.

Strapping on My Jetpack

This has been a rough couple of weeks at work, and naturally it's culminating in one of the worst weeks I've had in quite some time. So I need something good to happen. Really, anything. Someone to say something even remotely positive or reassuring. Maybe see a double rainbow or...

Game On: Week of Oct. 21

My recent column reviewing Forza Motorsport 4 and Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. Thanks to the Seattle Times for publishing.

Friday Funnies

This weekend the wife is getting back in the saddle again. No, really, she is. For the next four weekends she is taking horseback riding lessons. She loves horses, and after we recently watched the excellent documentary "Buck," she decided it was time to get back up on a horse...

Hanging with Murdoch (not the A-Team member)

It's been a while since I've been to a live show, and so luckily in the next few weeks I'll be hitting up a few new ones. First up is tonight's concert featuring Alexi Murdoch. I first heard him when he dominated the Away We Go movie soundtrack. The music...

Game On: Week of Oct. 14

My recent column reviewing NBA 2K12 and X-Men: Destiny. Thanks to the Ventura County Star for publishing.

Blog Action Day 2011: Three Things You Can Do

Continuing the theme for Blog Action Day, here are five easy things you can do (believe me, it's not even 10 a.m. and I've already done them, so no excuses) to take part. 1. Sign and share this petition: Take immediate action against the famine by signing this petition and...

Blog Action Day 2011: Save the Children

First post of Blog Action day 2011 (Food) is a video from Save the Children. It’s got some surprising facts about hunger and the end of the quiz asks you to take action to keep Congress from slashing the aid budget while famine ravages East Africa.

Blog Action Day 2011

This year's Blog Action Day snuck up on me. Normally they send out a series of emails to promote the day months and weeks in advance so that bloggers like myself can prep some content. This year, I got one Friday telling me it was today. Not sure if I...

Friday Funnies

I know you've put up with my goofy obsession with movie bloopers, and while you may not enjoy them all, you have to take a moment and check this one out. And if you can't see the amazing movie screwup here, then you are blind and have no sense of...

What I’ve Read: Born Standing Up

This was the third book that I read on my Hawaiian vacation, and it was a pleasant and quick read. I've always enjoyed Martin's early work and think he's been unfortunately forgotten in the discussion of great American comics. It's certainly because the roles he's taken in the last decade...

Game On: Week of Oct. 7

My recent column, reviewing FIFA Soccer 12 and Rage. Thanks to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, ABC Action News and North Jersery Papers for publishing.