PCA/ACA Conference: Day Two (It Begins)

The first day of the actual Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference proved to be one of the best of the entire event, not least because of my presentation at 2:30 PM. But we’ll get to that in a minute. The day began innocently enough. Luckily for me, I roomed with a particularly interesting […]

PCA/ACA Conference: Day One (Travel 101)

(A little overdue, but so be it.) Day one of my trip to the Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference in St. Louis, Missouri proved to be rather informative. First, I learned a few things about air travel: No matter what airport you go to, you will not get on the plane if you […]

10 Things You Learn About the Internet (in a couple months)

(Note: @amisuggests on Twitter remarked that this post sounds angry. I’m not sure why. Perhaps the tone in some of the items below suggests anger? For the record, this post isn’t actually an angry post, nor a reflection of some personal experience with the below items. These are general assessments of the Internet, some of […]

Question: Loading Time For This Blog

Someone recently brought up the unusual load times for this blog, which prompted me to make some changes to the content in the sidebars. With that in mind, I was wondering if those of you who are my readers could load up the blog and let me know if you notice any lags in load […]

Hitchens vs. D’Souza: An Interesting Debate

I just got back from a debate at the University of Florida between Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza on the truth of the existence of God. Truly an interesting, if not downright amusing, experience. Some quick thoughts from me:–Hitchens absolutely won the debate. It wasn’t because he made the best arguments one could possibly make […]

Book Giveaway: Num8ers Winners!

The giveaway is over. The winners are: Carraka Blogicious Andrew Parsons All of you have an email or message of some sort from me asking for your address (you know, so I can send you the book). Congrats!