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Before I watched Pan Am, I assumed it was an attempt by ABC to cash in on the success of Mad Men. Then I saw it, and now I’m convinced that the execs who came up with the great idea of ripping off Mad Men were celebrating with a cocaine party. They drew straws to [...]

I’m almost 30 now. And when I was nearly 19, I broke my foot, right on the arch. I had no health insurance and no one to help me get medical aid. So just had to wait it out and hope my foot would heal right…. It didn’t quite do that. I was reminded of [...]

So many of us are raised with an image in our minds about what we should look like, then look in the mirror and feel guilty and worthless, so much so that it causes brain-sickness. People try to justify this bullying as important social instruction, but you’d have to be a deluded imbecile to think [...]

I just got through watching a YouTube video in which a young guy called DarkDreymer protests to werewolves being used as objects of hetero lust in movies like New Moon, as he believes and states — literally and very loudly — that lycanthropy is gay. Of course, he didn’t mean gay in the childish, insensitive, [...]

Faith insisted that I blog this, so here goes: I was listening to her explain an argument she was having online with a chick who thought you can’t do a decent website for a male actor, and didn’t seem to have more reason than the fact that actresses look better at red carpet events. She [...]

So every once in a while, I recall how many people — fans and industry insiders alike — refer the the character of Captain Jack Sparrow as being “cool”. No, not cool as in a really well-drawn, entertaining and endearing fictional character. Cool like he’s really badass, Reynolds-style. But it occurred to me today, that [...]

We all have difficult lives and strange circumstances and, in that, we’re all similar. Some of us have no idea how alike we are. We’re separated by meaningless stereotypes and expectations, even to the point where men and women look on each other as extreme opposites. But one of the ways we’re all alike is [...]

I’m thinking about doing my next Travel Log on witches, but it’s more to form if I do the idea I had about my celebrity interview the highly sexualized Lincoln town car.
So in holiday news, as per usual, my mother and her boss ruined everything. The whole day was shot working for them and ended [...]

My step-father used to be sick all the time, and would complain about loudly, making it the excuse for everything he did, or didn’t, do. But whenever anyone else was sick or hurt, he’d tell them it was in their head, that they wanted to be sick, because they didn’t want to work, and that’s [...]

Man, time’s been running together lately. Money thin. Good thing hot dogs are cheap!
So, for the last couple of months, I’ve been thinking of making a Jhonen Vasquez fan forum. See, about nine years ago, I had the fleeting urge to see if there were any fan forums for JV, on account of becausin’ I [...]