I have a secret crush on Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris.

After seeing this:
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog
I am a horrible Buffy the Vampire Slayer dorkette. Not only did I watch every single episode religiously, but I bought the entire series. When I saw that Joss Wheedon was doing this, I had to check it out. The first episode is kind of slow, but if you stick [...]

I’ll miss George Carlin’s caustic sense of humor.

My dad and I didn’t agree on much when I was growing up. He liked things like the Patriots, the Sox, the Bs and the Cs. He liked skiing and smoking and going to Hampton Beach. He liked going to the track and racing horses. Most of these things I did not like - even [...]

Hooray! Someone else hates the so-called “Millennial” Generation, too!

OK, Radar magazine. You had me at one glance. I, most definitely, am not a Millennial. Thank GOD, or else everything in this blog would either be misspelled, ungrammatical, or punctuated with ‘like’.
Sign me up for the X revolution!
This is important enough to post in full:
Generation Slap
They’re naive, self-important, and perpetually plugged in. This is [...]

You Heard it Here First - a Prediction about Obama as President

I like Obama. Not as much as Hilary, but there you go. I also like John McCain.
I am, however, sick of hearing about “change”.
I’m even more sick of hearing about “hope”.
These are, for the most part, empty rhetorical devices, bandied about by people who want to get elected into the hot seat that is the [...]

Maybe this is why I’m a pessimist: “He’s dead, Jim.”

I grew up with a hardcore Trekkie. By which I mean that my aunt would actually watch and then catalogue every single episode and had: an outfit (I think she had a gold outfit, which signified something that I can never remember), a communicator (that actually beeped), a v-shaped pin (which also did something), models [...]

In honor of the new baseball season, an old favorite.

I don’t know - third base!
That’s right!
I don’t even know what I’m talking about!
(The forerunners of academese - the language of the anti-masses.)

Finally, some sanity about eggs, drinking 8 glasses of water per day, and other health fears that our grandparents never thought twice about . . .

One of the things that boggles my mind is the fact that some people will do anything to be “healthier”, where “healthier” is a stand-in for one or all of the following:

1. Look younger.

2. Stave off aging in all forms. Haven’t you heard that 50 is the new 30? (Or so people who are 50 [...]

Stuff White People Hate: #2 Paying Taxes

Upper and middle-class white people hate paying taxes. Due to the fact that most of them owe money to the government, despite all the sneaky write-offs they do. (Come on, do you really have a “home office”? If we could write off over-filled garages, spare rooms, and attics, we’d be all set.)
Worry about “filling out [...]

Stuff White People Hate: #1 Traffic

White people hate traffic.
In fact, they hate it so much that they obsess about it. Especially in California, where you must talk about what route you will take to your destination (i.e. Driver: “Let’s take the 405.” Passenger: “That’ll be too crowded, let’s take the 5.” Driver: “Cool.”).
White people pay taxes, at least in part, [...]

Grown-ups don’t necessarily know what they’re doing.

It’s my birthday tomorrow, and that always makes me think more than usual about things. Like life, the meaning of it, the purpose of my own, how much time has gone by in a flash, how much time I might have left. You know, the small stuff.
When I was younger, I used to think that [...]