I dislike jargon. It’s a silly human invention that generally doesn’t mean anything to anybody apart from marketing people trying to sell to the idiocracy. “Web 2.0″ is a term that has grated on me for some time, and I’ve decided it needs to be fired from our vocabularies. “Web 2.0″ means just about as [...]

There is a show with some British wanker on it that bugs me something fierce. Man vs. Wild is a show hosted by a guy named Bear Grylls. Seems like an awesome enough name, right? Bear. Grylls. Those are names that say he’s tough like a wild animal and crazy like a Welshman. Having a [...]

I stopped watching Lost sometime during season 2. Bill put it best: “J.J. Abrams makes awesome television shows. Until halfway through season 2.” I couldn’t agree more. I think I enjoyed Cloverfield so much because the contracted time frame forced Abrams to focus his storytelling and the pace of the reveal of the monster was [...]

As a writer and musician, I know all too well how willing people are to exploit your artistic passion. I’ve been shafted at gigs before, like the time I sang at a wedding and the guy who hired me said, “Well, you don’t really need to be paid. This is your passion, and it’s good [...]