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Things I Found Humorous This Morning

I misheard a commercial for Good Morning America this morning during my local newscast, where they were promoting a forthcoming story about The Dangers Of MySpace!! (which seems to be the scapegoat of the year). At the end of the commercial, I thought they said “That’s today, on Googling America”. When, of course, [...]

My Superpower

I’ve finally had a revelation about what my superpower is. It took being on vacation and sleeping in every morning to figure it out. Here it is… (wait for it)… I always know what time it is.

Dream A Lucid Dream Of Me

I’m not sure why, but my dreams have been especially vivid lately. I go through cycles like this. During these vivid dreaming periods, I can recall slipping into Lucid Dreaming. That’s the process by which one can consciously control or influence their dreams. I read a book on it a long [...]

Reading Hour

A couple of weeks ago I came to the realization (which should come as no surprise to all two loyal readers) that I watch too much damn TV. I look at the stacks of unread comics and books, unlistened-to music, and unwatched DVDs and think to myself “When am I going to have time [...]

Bonus Boobies!

I was a bit freaked out this morning when I opened up my local paper and read today’s Pickles:

My initial impression was that the artist was going the surreal Zippy the Pinhead route and thought that adding a headless apparition of a sumo wrestler (or naked pregnant woman?) to the second panel would give the [...]

Escaping the Past

This weekend I saw the latest comic-book-to-movie blockbuster, A History of Violence. (Yes, though they haven’t advertised it as such, it is based on a DC comic book, err… “graphic novel”.) It’s a taut little character study (of not just the main character, but his family as well) of the type that I [...]

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