My friend showed me a Youtube video where a guy took a music video and changed the lyrics of the song to tell you what was happening in the video. That doesn’t sound very funny, but it is and I have wasted way too much time watching and laughing my ass off at these videos. So I am sharing the [...]

One of the things I hate about kids television programming is that kid’s shows rarely deal with how kids’ minds actually work. Typically, kid’s programming is designed to teach kids oversimplifed moral lessons or how to be a fully functional member of society (‘share your stuff’, ‘disabled people aren’t monsters’, ‘Queso is Spanish for Cheese‘) – rare is the show [...]

One of the things I’ve been working on in my spare time is a roleplaying game designed for children. I’m not prepared to make any announcements or anything, but I’ve been working up to playtesting it with my kids – last night I sat down with my son and daughter for our first play session and I was amazed at [...]

Are you fucking kidding me? This is what passes for ‘news’ in Cincinnati these days.

I’ll probably never bother with this again, but I’m amused to be posting this on my iPod from the IHOP in Kenwood, Ohio. Frankly, typing on this thing is a bit of a pain but you do get used to it. Makes me think about picking up an iPad… And now that I’ve used my Off-Topic Karma for the day, [...]

Already engaged in a struggle to emerge from bankruptcy, Japan Air Lines is now engaged in a fight of a different sort: Keeping the stylish outfits of laid-off flight attendants off the black market and out of the hands of uniform fetishists. A jacket alone can fetch several hundred pounds, while one site is presently advertising a full set for [...]

Check out this sweet gallery of vinyage posters from Japanese industrial expositions from the 1920s-1940s. (via BoingBoing)

A model of Howl’s Moving Castle made of LEGO. ‘Nuff said. (via BoingBoing)

So there I was, playing Dance Dance Revolution X, and I find myself grooving on this great New Wave song called “Synthesized” by some band called The Epoxies. And I wonder, how the heck did I miss this band back in the ’80s?

Over the last few Gen Con game conventions, Assistant Ed Mazinga and myself have had a handful of opportunities to chat with the fine folk at CCP / White Wolf Games and they’re a pretty righteous bunch. At this year’s con Mazinga interviewed CCP’s Ned Coker, and their infamous Club Succubus parties are always worth attending. So what does CCP [...]

Ye gods, I am a sucker for limited edition swag. Seriously. If ebola came in a limited edition, I’d get it. So do I want the new Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition – which comes with a set of fucking night vision goggles? Does the Pope shit in the woods? Seriously, here – check out this unboxing video.

I was overjoyed tonight to learn that the shared-world fantasy anthology series Bordertown will return with a new volume at some indeterminate point in the future. Bordertown was one of my favorite series to have emerged from the ‘shared-world’ fad back in the 80′s (the other being Robert Asprin’s Thieves’ World), mainly because it sewed together the two main cultural [...]