How and Why I Started Blogging

The most common question that people email me, is how I got into blogging.  As life usually is, the answer is complicated.
My blogging roots can really be traced to a night in June of 2005. Around 4:00 am on June 11th, I awoke to smoke in my apartment and then screams. The [...]

Happy Endings for the Greatest Nerds in Movie History

No, this is not some type of story about a massage parlor in Chinatown.
Instead, have you ever wondered what happened to your favorite nerdy characters after the movie ends?  Did they end up with the cliched ending of marrying the cheerleader and having 6 children?  Did the years of torment cause them to gun down [...]

Rejected Garbage Pail Kids

Do you remember the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards? First released in 1985, these trading cards were designed to make fun of the nation’s Cabbage Patch Kid mania. Each card featured a Garbage Pail Kid character, with some comical abnormality and/or suffering some terrible fate, and a humorous, word play-rich character name.
Recently, executives [...]

How Chutes and Ladders has Corrupted our Youth

Chutes and Ladders, originally known as Snakes and Ladders in England, was introduced to the United States in 1943 by American board game pioneer Milton Bradley.  The game was supposed to teach a little morality to our youth by showing the effects of good and bad deeds.  Instead, Chutes and Ladders has been  responsible for [...]