Just because I hate all of the things that stupid young people like, you might think I make a pretty good Adult. Well first of all, let me set the record straight, I don’t actually hate all the things that stupid young people like. I mean, hello? Gangnam Style? I love that song HEYYYYY, SEXY LADY! Something something something YOJA something something OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE! I mean, come on, I’m not made of stone. Never before has one video made fake horseback riding and being Korean look SO FUCKING COOL. It’s the best dance craze ever to be inspired by Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I’m surprised that Psy doesn’t have go-go dancers in pink suits of armor banging coconuts together behind him. No, seriously- I’m REALLY surprised by that- I mean, considering everything else in the video- this is where he shows restraint?? It’s like: random, homoerotic sauna bit with fat guy and tattooed musceley guy- yup, Nation of Islam level bow-tie fixation- you got it, Psy with his pants down on the toilet rappin’ while he’s crappin’- hells yeah, girls in pink armor banging coconuts- whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa- easy there- let’s not go nuts here- that’s over the DMZ if you know what I’m saying. Still- it’s impossible to hate this song. Think of all the painfully dull wedding receptions this song has saved by bringing the bride’s bitchy high school friends and groom’s snarky co-workers together into a joyous pile of sweaty kim-chi on the dance floor. Think of the thousands of Bar Mitzvah boys, for whom this song will forever evoke memories of dance parties in synagogue social halls and their first cherry flavored lip-gloss kiss with the too-tall girl in the poofy dress who was lingering in...

Alright, a few weeks ago I went to Horrorhound Weekend (video recap of that right here if you’re curious).  After running around a convention centered solely around all things terrifying, it got me thinking that I hadn’t really played a good survival horror game in a while.  After hitting a local game store with my friends, we ended up picking up Dead Island and the Silent Hill HD Collection which includes Silent Hill 2 and 3 with updated graphics. So how did each fare as I dived back into the world of horror? Read on. Dead Island Dead Island was released in September 2011 as a zombie-fest that takes place on a fictional island of Banoi at a resort hotel not too far from Papua New Guinea. It’s an action-RPG with a focus on melee combat rather than firearms, or at least it would seem that way considering that out of the four characters you can choose at the onset only one is devoted to firearms while the other three specialize in blade weapons, blunt weapons, and thrown.  Locked in a safe room with a handful of other survivors, it’s your job to work together and find out what’s going on and stay alive in the process. From a presentation standpoint Dead Island‘s environments are immersive and beautiful.  The island locale is refreshing considering most zombie games put you in dank, derelict locations- but it’s not all sunsets and margaritas either; There are plenty of dark and foreboding locations to explore around the island and I’ll admit, even being a veteran to the genre Dead Island left me with chills in spots. Combat can feel a bit disjointed when using melee weapons, but for the most part the action doesn’t miss a beat.  Throw in a...

. A blogumn by Amy Robinson Advice and observations from a somewhat tall nerd If you share your home with an animal that poops, you’ll love Poop Bags too.  I’m here to tell ya, cat poop has consequences! One of my lesser of the “living green” New Years resolutions, was to stop flushing cat crap down the toilet.  Did you know that the immense amount of cat poop flushed into our water supplies leading to the ocean leads to a rise in encephalitis in the Sea Otter population?  Apparently the toxic bacteria in cat turds gets into the ocean water then enlarges the hearts of the little sea creatures, eventually killing them.  I currently share my home with 3 cats, so I face a lot of poop challenges.  I definitely don’t want to be responsible for killing sea otters.  They’re cute and entertaining and not for human consumption. With the lives of little Whisker-faced ocean critters weighing on my very soul, I swore, no more lazy flushing for me!  I started using old grocery bags to carry the crap out to the dumpster, but that didn’t seem too friendly to the environment either.  I turned to our old friend Google for a solution and up popped PoopBags.com — biodegradable bags for dog owners to carry on walks for poop disposal, but they work just as well for the scoop and dump of daily kitty clean up.  So now every one is happy, the cats are happy, the earth is happy, I’ve kept my resolution and scores of happy sea otters can frolic in the sunset with disease free hearts. . Amy Robinson’s children’s book “Too Many Monkeys” is now onsale at Lulu.com. 10% of all profits go to local animal...