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Monday Morning Mashup: USF Goobers, Greg Schiano, Twitter, Elephants, Wii U, Cosplay

Bobby — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:55:12 +0000

Until Saturday I didn't have any good links to mashup a worthy post. I figured it might be a good time to move this feature to Friday mornings as I originally intended. However, on Friday and Saturday morning, I found a mother lode of cool shit that I couldn't possibly wait five more days to [...]

Monday Morning Mashup: Star Wars, SOPA, and Hello Kitty Jets

Bobby — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:25:03 +0000

This is all the shit I found interesting last week while surfing the net instead of writing my novel. I can't believe that "surfing the net" is still acceptable parlance over fifteen years later. This week we cover Death Star Economics, the Evils of SOPA and NDAA, the crap new DC Comics logo, Hello Kitty jetliners, [...]

Netflix Randomness: Twelve and Holding

Bobby — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:29:40 +0000

I am a passionate fan of 80's kids’ movies. Goonies, Stand By Me, Explorers, Space Camp, Monster Squad, Cloak and Dagger, Labyrinth, and several others occupy coveted slots on my all-time list. While I enjoyed recent kids’ movies such as Harry Potter, Super 8, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, they never captured the magic [...]

My 2011 Resolutions In Review

Bobby — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:24:34 +0000

Wow. I am rusty at this writing thing. So, 2011 sucked donkey balls and I’m going to grade the resolutions that I made a one year ago on this day. Here’s a hint: I failed. This is why I hate New Year’s Resolutions. They are just further proof of how much I suck. Obviously I haven’t written [...]

The Loot from Harry Potter World

Bobby — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:57:36 +0000

Ah, the loot. I love loot. Looty, loot, loot. If you’re a Harry Potter fanatic heading to the Wizarding World for the first time, you should check your wallet with someone who’s less enthused to be there. You might get caught up in the atmosphere and try to buy everything you see. And this shit [...]

A Trip to Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Bobby — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:14:14 +0000

My Harry Potter fandom is about to reach epic proportions now that I am the proud new owner of annual passes to Harry Potter World, I mean, uh, Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure. I have been itching to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter since it opened last summer, but I heard horror stories [...]

A Guide to Becoming an Otaku

Bobby — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:01:31 +0000

I recently began writing for Anime Maki, the anime/manga blog created by my former DVDTalk/AnimeTalk cohort, Todd Douglass. I just finished my first review for that site and am still in full-on anime geek mode. There are many who claim to have no interest in anime, but underneath the veneer of indifference there’s that nagging [...]

Carnivorous Creations: Growing Plant Monsters

Bobby — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:33:30 +0000

Carnivorous plants have always fascinated me. It’s a fitting turn of events for the once defenseless bottom of the food chain to bite back. I first learned about them on Mr. Wizard’s World, an old 80’s Nickelodeon show that aired on weekday mornings after The Mysterious Cities of Gold. That was the finest hour of kid’s television programming ever. I tried to nail down a video clip of that Mr. Wizard’s World segment, but Nickelodeon is stingy with their classic shows. You can buy the DVD of Mr. Wizard’s World Season One, if you’re interested. Episode 15.

I actually had heard of Venus Fly Traps before I saw that episode of Mr. Wizard’s World. As a kid, I subscribed to Boys’ Life magazine. No, I wasn’t a boy scout. I only went to one Cub Scout meeting and thought the whole thing was retarded. For what seemed an eternity, a group of us sat in a small, dim room with our parents and made paper mache armor for no apparent reason. Oh, rad. Where the hell was all the cool stuff like learning survival skills, building fires, tracking beasts, and pitching tents?

Netflix Randomness: Night of the Demons

Bobby — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:04:20 +0000

Recently, a strange game evolved from a combination of Netflix’s Instant Watch and my own comatose state of couch-potato boredom. I call it Netflix Randomness. Not that this game is at all random—the name just rolls off the tongue a little easier than Solitaire Movie-Geek Chicken.

USF Eats Poop

Bobby — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:10:51 +0000

The USF War Cry also functions as the USF Get-Out-Of-Smack-Free Card. If they lose a game, you are certain to hear, “Look How Far We’ve Come.” If they win, that’s when the goobers run rampant. If the team they beat was ever ranked higher than #5 in the past 30 years, then the head coach gets bathed in Gatorade. Goal posts are torn down. They throw a parade on Dale Mabry Avenue. A building in downtown Tampa changes its roof lights to display green and yellow, which I guess is close enough to green and gold. The fans talk about a National Championship run. No, not just one championship. A fucking Dynasty! Inevitably, a week later, USF loses. The goobers pack away the car flags. The building in downtown switches back to red, white, and blue lights. The billboards come down. And USF Fans mutter, “Look How Far We’ve Come.”