1. Fear & Loathing In Graves County
(Article Categories/Politics and Current Events)

... to talk about the sheer economy of language by which the founding fathers packed the most essential freedoms of our society into just 45 words. Then I would launch into a story of the Coke Zero Culinary ...

2. Is the Ground Zero Mosque the GOP's Way of Gaming Google?
(Article Categories/Politics and Current Events)

... up in arms about something that is very closely related to the story they're trying to keep buried. I first noticed this kind of correlation during the previous administration when Dubya gave the soldiers ...

3. A Six-Pack of Stagger Lee
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

... from song to song, but the basic story goes something like this: Read More At The Death Cookie  ...

4. An Introduction to TableTop Role-Playing
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

In my continuing quest to write for every web site in existence, I've started a series on role-playing over at hubpages.com. The series will be geared towards new gamers, but will get into more advanced ...

5. The Rules: Robin Hood
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

... book, Robin Hood, which attempts to find the historical Robin by tracing the character's literary history, I bought a copy. I've also been watching the second season of the recent BBC Robin Hood ...

6. The Funniest Shit You've Never Seen: God Edition
(Article Categories/Forteana and Fringe Culture)

... viewpoint. You can read the Bible straight through, navigate by Book, or look up particular categories of wackiness, such as “Absurdities,” “Science and History,” or (because we know what our readers want) ...

7. Fratboys of the Week: The Outsider
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

... some fraternities tend to recruit members of a particular race, and some fraternities are made up entirely of rednecks who apparently missed the "Appomattox Courthouse" day of their Civil War history ...

8. Wednesday WWPHITM?: Preacher
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

... suited for an HBO style series. Since there are so many storylines and characters in the series, we'll just stick with the central characters and a few of the more interesting folks who only show up ...

9. Web Series Review: Broken Toy
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

... effects that can hold their own against major studio releases. The comic book geek in me was happy to find out that, whether intentional or not, this has all the makings of a great super-hero story. Of ...

10. Movie Review: The Box
(Article Categories/Pop Culture)

... the box would be a lot less painful than watching the new movie, The Box. The film tells the story of Cameron Diaz and Cyclops, two very uninteresting people with an uninteresting kid and terrible accents. ...

11. Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
(Article Categories/Forteana and Fringe Culture)

The usual way to adapt a movie based on a piece of reporting is to tell the story being reported on, leaving out the reporter entirely. With a Jon Ronson book, however, that sort of adaptation doesn’t ...

12. Founding Fatharrrrghs
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

This article first appeared in the September 2009 issue of  Bazooka Magazine. When most people think of democracy in the New World, they think of a rag-tag band of rebels who stood up against a ...

13. Movie Review: Jennifer's Body
(Article Categories/Pop Culture)

Jennifer’s Body is the story of two high school friends, the popular, pretty bad girl Jennifer (Megan Fox) and her geeky (which of course in movie land means “also incredibly hot, but wears glasses) ...

14. Book Review: Death's Daughter by Amber Benson
(Article Categories/Geek Culture)

Death’s Daughter tells the story of Calliope Reaper-Jones, a young woman trying to make her way up in (or, more precisely, up to) the fashion industry in New York. Or at least that’s who she thinks ...

15. Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
(Article Categories/Pop Culture)

... away from being complete disasters, and with this kind of history I was afraid that this might be the one that couldn't overcome Quentin's directorial neuroses. Still, the movie has Brad Pitt with a crazy ...

16. Movie Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
(Article Categories/Pop Culture)

... and lots sequel set-up. In a way, the whole movie is really set-up for a sequel, since it’s basically the origin story for Destro and Cobra Commander as well as Duke and Ripcord.    While the movie ...

17. Fiction: Road Trip, Part 1
(Article Categories/Other Stuff)

I don't usually write fiction. In fact, I'm not sure I've every finished a story. I do, however, occasionally write bits and pieces of fiction. The piece below was written for a Play-By-Post M-Force game ...

18. Movie Review: Moon
(Article Categories/Pop Culture)

Moon is the story of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who’s nearing the end of is three-year contract with Lunar Industries as a Hydrogen-3 miner. The job requires him to live alone on a moon base for the ...

19. Book Review: Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way
(Article Categories/Pop Culture)

Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way tells the story of Bruce Campbell, a B-Movie actor known for his major roles in countless low-budget movies and failed television serious and his bit parts in every ...

20. Book Review: Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
(Article Categories/Forteana and Fringe Culture)

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier tells the stories of three men convicted of computer crimes: Kevin Mitnick, Hans “Pengo” Huebner, and Robert Tappan Morris. Each story is told ...