Hey folks! I'm rushing to get this up before I run to work so I can't say much, but here's that new food piece I promised -- The Experimental OYSTER LOAF! Leave a comment, lemme know what you think... and don't be afraid to submit your own suggestions. I think I'm gonna try to make more oyster loaves in the future using a variety of different techniques. I've been bitten by the oyster loaf bug! OYSTER LOAF!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and feel free to read and add stuff to the previous blog entry if you want. But first, dig into some OYSTER LOAF! Okay, gotta go. Ja!

Hey folks -- sorry for the slight delay regarding the next article! Not only have I been kinda busy and exhausted lately, but I thought I'd leave the Harry Potter feature in the top spot a little longer to ensure that it gets the maximum opening exposure. Should have a new food experiment piece up for you tomorrow, though, so keep an eye out for that.

Regarding the HP piece -- I was pleasantly surprised to return from da big city to find voices of agreement and even something of a discussion taking place in the previous blog entry's comments section! As far as I've been able to discern from the site logs, most of the other opinions folks have had on the article haven't been very kind (though no one's ventured to send me any hate mail yet ), so the concurrent thoughts and additional insights were greatly appreciated. Everyone had something worthwhile to add, which was pretty cool! Thanks, peeps. (more...)

New print article -- a lengthy rant about how J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is hardly worth the excessive praise and fervent devotion it receives from millions of zombified admirers all over the world. Fuck Harry Potter. This piece has it all -- a mini Hot Flash style comic, mini-reviews of other books, anecdotes from my time spent working at the bookstore -- even some more sophisticated literary and social criticism. And if you've got anything to add -- agreements, disagreements, expositions on certain plot points that may contradict certain arguments voiced in the piece (because, admittedly, I haven't read any of the books save the first one, though I have seen the fucking boring films that never fail to put me to sleep), etc. -- that's what the comment form is for.

This article is dedicated to all of the people who, like me, dislike the Potter books but are nonetheless forced to live in a world where their influence, at times, seems all but limitless. La Resistance lives on, my friends.

...rely on the Batman! In this latest Scary-Crayon game review, we check out BATMAN: Justice Unbalanced, an educational Batman adventure designed to help children ages 7-10 learn valuable problem-solving skills and in which not a single punch is thrown. You may scoff, but I think it's pretty cool that the game teaches kids to use their wits instead of their fists to outwit enemies. I mean, what was Batman really teaching kids anyway? That to get what you want, you need to dangle people weaker than you off of buildings, that's what! Batman was a bully.

And if you're wondering why I actually bought this game -- as I say multiple times in the review, as if purchasing a game about Batman, educational or otherwise, requires any justification whatsoever -- it was $2. 'Nuff said.

I guess stuff like this will appear in the blog from time to time, too.

By the way, regarding the previous entry, it occurs to me that Robb Armstrong probably isn't a bad guy -- he just draws a really shitty and unfunny comic. So I probably wouldn't shiv him if I met him on the street. Breaking his fingers would probably be doing the world a favor, though.

This from the guy who'd make Supergirl porn!