Failing again. Failing better.
Today, blastr.com posted a video of Max Landis (writer of the new movie Chronicle) explaining the death and return of Superman. It’s snarky and funny, and full of NSFW language. It also has a ton of cameos, so be sure to watch to the very end. Besides, drunk explaining the best kind of explaining, right?…
I readily admit that I’m a fan of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Heck, I’m re-reading books 1-4 before I pick up the latest, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, just because it has been so long since I last read them. But when I tell people this, I get funny looks–why…
A certain big football game is coming up on Sunday. A game so big that it generates lawsuits just for mentioning its name. It’s like Voldemort, Jr., basically. The halftime shows are usually worse that Voldemort though, let’s be honest. Where was I? Oh, yes, chili. As much as I love pizza and wings, the…
Today, Wired posted a snippet of text that explores Winston Churchill’s “Shall We All Commit Suicide” in which he predicts drone warfare–in 1924. The passage points out that Churchill often included imagined futures or alternate histories in his speeches and writings. And Wired points out a possible reason why–Churchill was an admitted fan of science…
Today on Twitter, Maria Popova of brainpickings.org (@brainpicker) posted a link to some Rules of Golf from Surrey, England during WWII. Apparently, instead of closing down the course during a period of actual bombs dropping on the course (and exploding), the Richmond Golf Club created some very interesting rules. They read like something out of…