Okay, not better, but hopefully a bit different than most lists out there. 2009 was not my favorite year for music or for Jennifer Garner/Matthew McConaughey romcoms, but we’ll save that hot-button topic for another day. For the most part, the belles of the blog ball left this cranky old fella yawning, not fawning — [...]

I was listening to way too much Propagandhi while mowing my lawn today, it’s so good for the soul and the mind but it can be a bit dangerous (I was this close to burning down a slaughterhouse). All that ferocity needs to be tempered a bit, so I thought back to my youth and [...]

Big Phoot: Wildlife photographer Todd Marrone took a  Polaroid of a phanatic in its unnatural habitat.

Perspective: infoMania’s Ben Hoffman chimes in on the new Facebook:  F*ck My Facebook!

Top-notch Time Waster: “The 10 Best Aqua Teen Hunger Force Episodes” selected by the show’s creators.

This American Life – Live! Our pal Dave Hill will be performing with [...]

Ever dig a band so much you have a hard time describing just how amazing they are? That’s how it is with this guy and Propagandhi. I’m almost speechless (lucky you), so we’ll let the record label give you taste:

Legendary and unrepentant residents of humankind’s ideological peanut-gallery, Propagandhi does not disappoint with Supporting Caste – [...]

Hey Kids, been a way for a while, sorry. My daughter turned 4 and the birthday party festivities seemed to go on for a week. I also celebrated a landmark birthday, which hurt, big time. The only upside is my acquisition of one of them fancy iPod Touch jimmy-jams (32 GBs worth). I am learning [...]

Mad Props: The venerable Mad magazine gives us: The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency [via laughingsquid]

It’s Electric! Our pals at Geekadelphia are throwing a shindig honoring America’s greatest geek Ben Franklin. Yup, that long-haired, fat bastard invented a ton of stuff (or so they say) and he’s arisen from the dead and [...]