I played baseball with my oldest son for an hour and a half last night. I hate sports generally, but my kid's enthusiasm for it has me morphing into someone that maybe hates them less? Anyway, it was pretty cool and I felt very fortunate to hang out with him in a capacity that allowed me to be his dad and NOT bust…

"Wikipedia sez that Moby Dick is about obsession and you can't get the revenge on a whale, and that it was written by Melville Dewey, who also invented decimals. Thanks for the prize, and fuck off."

THAT'S BOBSLEDDING!!!! I'LL KILL YOU FOR SUGGESTING OTHERWISE!!!!

He'd probably be okay with that. I contribute a dollar a month to his Patreon account.

5' 9", 200 lbs. I sort of work hard to keep it that way. Two years ago, I was 240. It's pretty goddamn hard to maintain, and I could do better, but I try to balance weight goals with enjoying life.

I shared two pitchers of Belgian White draft and nachos on Saturday before seeing Alien: Covenant. I've been sober ever since.

It's okay, Mr. Schumacher. Honestly, you aren't the first or last person to make a shitty Batman movie.

It's all real, baby.

Oh great there's a Truther talking real loud about 9/11 stuff in the library. Weeeeeee!!!!! Oh, now he's talking about Boston Marathon bombing conspiracy shit!

Yeah, Black Mirror is slick and all, but it sure does make me feel like total garbage when I watch it.

I wish I could find the exact wording of Asimov's quote about books. Something along the lines of "instantly searchable, easily indexed, highly efficient information retrieval in a highly compact form".

It's all right by me.

Transformers: a massively profitable franchise that is 100% guaranteed to always be horrible! It's a paradox of cosmic proportions.

Ah yes, you and I have chatted about this before. I believe I said that I would have ALSO taken the alternate reality sleaze-fest version promised by Robert Rodriguez.

The first Cars makes me cry. I watched Cars 2 once, and I'm thrilled to say my kids had no interest in ever watching it again.

They promote it on channels that kids watch. I know, because my kids have started hounding me about seeing it, much to my horror.

I'm not going to claim that it was a good idea to make a $250 million movie out of John Carter. I will say that it was a decent movie with some problems, mainly related to the attempt to build a franchise framework for a series that will never happen into something that should have been more focused on delivering a…

I thought we were transitioning into West Coast Avengers, all anchored by a Wonder Man movie.

Public libraries don't want that shit.

I hesitate to call anyone connected with this story "smart."