Best $3 I Ever Spent: Bicycle Zombie Playing Cards
When the zombie apocalypse happens--and it will--you're going to need a good set of playing cards to pass the time with other survivors. I suggest Bicycle Zombie Playing Cards: You really can't go wrong with Bicycles. They've been making these cards since 1885. You...
Achievement Unlocked: Meeting Jane Jensen, Legendary Game Designer
Last Saturday I was among the privileged few invited to Pinkerton Road, the game studio and home of famed game designer and author Jane Jensen--one of my personal heroes of the video games industry. She's the ex-Sierra Online designer behind the successful '90s...
All the crap I did while I wasn’t blogging.
So yeah, it's been a while since I've posted anything. Sixteen days, to be exact. The past few weeks have been a blur of work (of both the kind that pays the bills and the kind that doesn't), sleep, and time with family, punctuated by a business trip to NYC, the...
I’m Never Gonna Say I’m Sorry for Loving Ace of Base
This week The League wants to know what our guilty pleasures are. Well friends (that is, if you still want to be friends after this) the time has come for me to reveal my secret shame: my deep and unconditional love for Ace of Base. I've been sitting on this gem...
The Walking Drunk and Disorderly Dead
I was on my way to the bank this morning when I saw this sign: My first reaction was excitement, thinking the zombie apocalypse had finally come. Then I got a little further into town--where all the bars are--and realized it's St. Patty's Day weekend, and by...
6 Inches of Vintage Turtle Power!
What does it say about me that on my recent fantasy shopping spree to Hakes Americana & Collectibles I only came away with $1639.00 worth of stuff? I had carte blanche with my pretend money to purchase all the coolest, most ridiculously expensive pop culture...
21 Red-iculous, Random Things About Me
The color of the day is red, like Honey Boo Boo's neck. Or cats dressed like lobsters. Or the ex-Power Ranger who does gay porn now, and other awful red things you would have probably never thought of on your own. You're welcome. This week The League threw down a...
History, motherf*ckers! FDR: American Badass
It's not often something that's actually educational sneaks into my feed reader, and even less often when that something perfectly aligns with one of my weird interests in some way and I end up giving two shits and posting about it. Today is one of those days. But...
Remembering the Top 5 Dirtiest Music Videos on The Box
Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage, back to the early 90s when a lesser-known music video channel known as The Box used to exist. With the tagline "Music television you control," The Box let viewers call a 1-900 number to pay $1.99 to play any music video...
10,000 Points to Everyone Who Recommended I Read ‘Ready Player One’
If I could pay you in valuable rare artifacts like Hayata's Beta Capsule or Fyndoro's Tablet of Finding, I would. At the very least I would send your avatar some OASIS credits, even though I'm only a third level noob who's never ventured far beyond the planet...
Fantasy Shopping Spree at Hake’s Americana & Collectibles
I want money, lots and lots of money, so I can buy all this cool stuff at Hake's! This week's assignment from The League was to pretend money is no object and go on a fantasy shopping spree at Hake's Americana & Collectibles. Part of Baltimore's famous Geppi's...
Hola? Is it Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos you’re looking for?
You don't have to tell me how sad it is that I'm excited about Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos. I already know. But combining this excitement with a Spanish-language version of Lionel Richie's quintessential 80s ballad "Hello"? Someone at Taco Bell understands me...
