Summer is in full swing, and that means here in the Midwest it is fairly hot – and I loathe being hot. Air conditioning costs a bundle, so I am constantly looking for more frugal ways to beat the heat. Going to the mall and wandering around works pretty well, but sometimes you need a […]
Traveling for leisure has never really been something that I considered. Potential destinations either sound too mundane or too fraught with insidious dangers like sunburns or mosquito bites. However, outer space and its many mysteries has always fascinated me, and if I was physically fit and wealthy enough I would be on the first commercial […]
Through nostalgia-tinted glasses the world can become a different and much prettier place, but leaning too heavily on nostalgia to form your perception can lead to disappointment. Imagine wanting to revisit the beautiful, shining pizza restaurant where you had your 12th birthday party, but when you get there it has been shut down due to […]
As the roar of the 20s quieted into the purr of the 30s, an American astronomer named Edwin Hubble, using big words like recessional velocity, “relativity” and “megaparsec”, rocked the scientific community the world over by suggesting that our universe is expanding. This discovery sent out a seismic shock wave that is still felt today. […]
A lone astronaut wanders around a desolate and dark environment. Eventually, he makes his way to a space station which is equally dark and devoid of life. Your first instinct is to try to figure out what happened to this station and its inhabitants, but in order to do that you will need to be […]
She’s the original Fly Girl of In Living Color — Game Boy Color, that is. Shantae, our favorite purple-haired, gold-bangled half-genie hero first made her debut in 2002. Despite the fact that the Game Boy Advanced was released in 2001, Shantae’s debut adventured conjured a cult following. Whipping forward eight years, Shantae cast a spell […]
”If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” – Douglas Coupland There’s the inevitable point during every Halloween party where everything begins to unravel faster than your friend Denice’s toilet paper mummy costume when she got stuck on a treadmill. “Sexy Mechanic” is bored with your fanatical […]
When I first fired up BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma, my expectations were low because I didn’t know too much about the series. I knew that the games were typically fighting games and that the Internet’s otaku at large typically swoon over them. I’m no stranger to oddball Japanese pop culture (we can talk about my Super […]
The sun is shining bright. The roar of the crowd has approached the level of volume that makes the rest of the world fall away. Now it’s just you, them, your powerful machine, and the wide ribbon of blacktop in front of you. The countdown starts. You begin to rev your engine, and then finally […]
Your day starts out like any other: another long, boring and seemingly endless day at the hard hat testing company. The hours stretch on and on across a figurative distance so great that only a literal mathematician could compute them. Each unending stretch of hours is punctuated only by the cranial blunt force trauma you […]