And to think I wondered why girls thought I was a nerd in high school…

The stereotype is that comic book nerds still live in their parents’ basement at age 33. I didn’t, but my comics did.

They were stashed away in a stack of big copier paper boxes in a corner of the basement, waiting [...]

As those of you out there who follow my Twitter feed may have noticed, my beautiful wife and I have been on the road for the last couple of weeks, heading for the wedding of some friends in Connecticut.

Along the way, we saw a whole bunch of the country. On our way to the wedding, [...]

Out of all the annoyance of the completely idiotic LeBron James saga that has dominated far too many headlines this summer comes something genuinely hilarious. Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert wrote an open letter to the team’s fans – promising that the Cavs would win an NBA Title before BronBron does, no less. But the [...]

Two of my favorite people, as you may know, are Leah and Simon.

Is it because they’re swell folks all around, fun to hang out with and generally good to know? Sure. Is it because Simon was totally psyched to wear a kilt in my wedding, was a fantastic groomsman (how many groomsmen are willing to [...]

The scene: June, 2008. Two RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVES are having lunch in a trendy L.A. restaurant. EXECUTIVE #1, an older guy, is pretending that “cold gin” and a martini are the same thing. EXECUTIVE #2, a young go-getter, is pretending to like kombucha, like people do these days.

EXEC 1: I just don’t know what to [...]

I have figured out how the universe works.

The day those assholes are done digging mysterious holes in the street ten feet from our front window and filling them in with various materials each day, with their jackhammers and air compressors and beeping backhoes and rumbling tractors and shit?

That will be the day that I get [...]

Art by Gene Luen Yang

Lotta folks linking today to Gene Luen Yang’s comic calling for a boycott of the upcoming film The Last Airbender. Can’t say I disagree with him. To cast white actors in a film version of a story rooted quite deeply in Asian culture seems silly at best. If it were [...]

Photo borrowed from Flickr user markfftang under Creative Commons license.

A little while ago, Mle and I were chatting and the Spanish word for “rabbit” came up: conejo.

I assumed that this word was connected, linguistically, in some way to the rural English slang for rabbit, “coney” (e.g. Samwise Gamgee, the most stereotypically “pastoral” of Tolkien’s [...]

Annie says, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!"

…there’ll be no Annie.

Tribune Media Services is pulling the plug on Annie, the daily comic strip chronicling the adventures of the dot-eyed little orphan girl with a penchant for red dresses. According to the article, the strip is now appearing in fewer than 20 papers. Here’s [...]

The 12th of Fucking May. For fuck’s sake, people, it’s the 12th of Fucking May, and this is what we see out our front window this morning. NOT FAIR! Colorado, I love you. I really do. You know you’ll always be Home to me. But if you’re trying to convince me that moving to California [...]