At last the final installment of “Rewards Points-A-Palooza” has arrived. I hope over the past few entries I’ve helped you find the right program for your needs as well as how to maximize your earnings for it. In this last installment we’ll go over a few more tricks and tips. Please feel free to ask [...]

According to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., 72% of political ad spending during the 2010 elections would have been prohibited before Citizens United     mood image credit: gIadius

I walk into my supervisor’s office.  “This,” I say as I pull out a chair, “is going to be a sort of awkward conversation.” I’ve been building up to this conversation for weeks.  I’ve also been putting it off for weeks.  My inability to initiate this talk has dragged me into spirals of self-loathing and [...]

This time with Liam Hemsworth (Gale from HUNGER GAMES), Chuck Norris, more Ahnold and Bruuuuce (Willis), and exactly one chyck, so as to more thoroughly conform to the Smurfette Principle. As for the trailer itself, I’m reminded of the time, Friend of FaN, Cynthia Bechhold Hawkins, referred to a movie as being “directed by a [...]

Let’s say you killed Guy Fieri and dumped his body in a swamp- accidentally, of course. That is to say, you killed him accidentally- it would be very hard to drop something in a swamp accidentally unless you lived in the Everglades and were a particularly poor juggler in which case you’d be dropping beanbags and kittens [...]

1. I loved this round-up of the 30 Nerdiest MAD Magazine Covers from the last sixty years. As one might imagine, there have been quite a few. It was hard for me to pick just one for the featured image. But in the end my enduring love for STAR TREK IV won out. [Topless Robot] 2. [...]

The Big Mac is the signature sandwich at the globally popular McDonald’s restaurant chain.  Their secret sauce recipe is a closely guarded secret, known only by the top company executives.  But, sometimes you’re craving one and you can’t make it to the restaurant.  Well, here’s my take on the secret sauce recipe that you can [...]

Forgive me, dear readers. It has been five months since my last blogumn. There has been much speculation as to where I have been, and I will simply say NONE OF IT is true (unless you assumed I am right where you left me, in which case, yes it’s all true). I was approached to [...]

This week the Packrat gang stages a B-dryl intervention; reviews the new Iron Man graphic novel; recaps the China Mieville comic, DIAL H FOR HERO — sleepily; and gives the latest issue of AVENGERS VS. X-MEN a very enthusiastic thumbs up. If you were already excited about finally getting to see AVENGERS this weekend, you’ll [...]

Yeah, that pretty much sums me (and every nerd I know) up. Click here to get a 100% truth button of your own at the beanforest Etsy shop.