So we reach the midseason finale of a show that has worked extremely hard to shake off the cobwebs of its second season which saw most everything drag to an abrupt halt where there was even a question of the show’s survival if it didn’t improve. What’s made the first half of the third season remarkable is the almost new found focus and energy the show’s found by sloughing off most of the trappings of the second season and putting forth a reinvigorated showing to add more balance to the middling product. Continue reading →
We’re really rolling now, right?! This show just keeps getting better and better. It’s almost as if last season didn’t exist. The pacing is fantastic. The writing is sharper, crisper, darker, and epically more interesting. The best compliment we can give the show at this point is we don’t want the episodes to end. Continue reading →
Ever wonder just what the hell you would do if the Apocalypse came? And we’re not talking about some little natural disaster, oh, no, we’re talking about seas boiling, clouds of tear gas, dogs and cats plotting their revenge, and all other manner of indescribable horror, or just your run of the mill zombie outbreak. What would you need to survive? Or better yet, what would you need to survive that could all fit into one pack? Continue reading →
It was a hard fight that came down to the wire with one edging out the other by only the tiniest of margins, sort of like that whole Santorum/Romney Iowa debacle. Sheesh. Yikes. While we’re renaming things, can we rename both Santorum and Romney? How about Conservatives Unite Moneybomb (C.U.M)? Oops, that’s already taken. Gosh Darn! How could they know what we were thinking? This is probably the best name of anything in the whole world ever! Hipsters need to hire Rick Santorum to be their PR man.
Well, you know, those hipsters who aren’t retired. The retired ones? Yeah, we’ve already got a name for them. Continue reading →
In this simmering pot, which often seems a bit too slow to boil, will questions be answered this week? Will we find Sophia? What is going on at the Greene farm, and finally will zombies rise again to remind us of what these characters really and truly face, or will we continue to only ponder the intricacies of humanity.
Any Sci-fi fan or Systems Administrator will tell you: Zombies are bad for business. This holds true whether your managing a theme park, a mission critical webserver, or especially the ecology of the human body. Zombie processes on a webserver are ones that are supposed to terminate but instead they hang around eating up resources and wasting processor time. The same is true in the human body. “Zombie cells” are no longer able to divide like normal cells. Instead they hang around releasing toxins and presumably making one crave human flesh and to start talking with a lisp. I may have made up that last part. Continue reading →
You know one thing Zombies don’t currently have? Well, they own all of Hollywood, that’s for sure. And, yawr, they’re pretty popular in books too. And, yes, also, some of us may have zombie apocalypse survival kits. What?! It’s not just me. Anyway, now zombies will have their own convention. Like for serious, guys. Continue reading →
I’ve been keeping a collection of the mad nonsense that comes out of my kid’s mouth for a few years now. I’m fairly certain that this breed of insanity crosses the lines of parent and non-parent so I hope you enjoy. Continue reading →
We all have bizarre idiosyncrasies, strange things we’re afraid of, paranoias that just seems irrational. Have you ever wondered what it’s called? Well, here is a completely random list of phobias that may or may not relate to you.
Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
So you’re afraid of being afraid, so you become even more afraid, causing you to become even more afraid of being afraid than you were in the first place, and so on. It’s like a dream within a dream within another dream, within a movie screen. Only not really.
Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads..
What about jokes about crossing roads? Why did the chicken cross the “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” No? OK.
Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
I don’t understand – this seems perfectly natural.
I wasn't afraid of flowers until just now.
Ablutophobia– fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning..
I believe this is the patron phobia among hermits. I love taking showers and being clean, but I hate picking up after myself. Can I be considered partially ablutophobic? Would it be called hemi-ablutophobic?
I just can’t even conceive of that. Sleep is what I do when shit has hit the fan and I’ve been exhausted by stress. Sleep is a sweet, sweet escape from the world. I am most definitely pro-sleep.
Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon’s fear of operating.
Seriously? “Sorry boss, can’t come in today, I have Ergophobia. Yeah, it’s a thing.”
Of course surgeons could be imagining this.
Well if it isn't my old friend Mr McCreg. With a leg for an arm, and an arm for a leg!
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
I’m afraid of words of that length. What’s that called?
Kinemortophobia – fear of the undead, specifically zombies.
Who wouldn’t be afraid of zombies? Are there some sort of warm fuzzy zombies that bake pies and give back massages I haven’t heard about that most people wouldn’t be afraid of?
OK, this one is kind of adorable.
Koumpounophobia – fear of sewing buttons.
What about sewing on snaps? Hemming something? Having buttons thrown at you? I need more information!
Nomatophobia – fear of names.
But…. Why does it have a name?
Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances.
“Home surroundings”? As in walls? Or just your toaster? In which case, I understand.
Not technically a toaster...
Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
These names have to be made up. They probably are – I’ll admit my research was minimal.
Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
This must have made being a Brett Favre fan rather difficult. John Madden most definitely does not have this phobia.
I have a phobia of this guy.
Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
Does anyone actually like clowns? How about this – who would you rather have direct contact with; a dentist or a clown?
Exception to the rule? Fizbo. Thus is the power of Cameron, of Modern Family.
So what did I miss? Feel free to add to the list with your own favorite phobia. My real phobia, which I didn’t even know was a thing until a few weeks ago? Trypophobia – I just went to google image it to share pictures, and it just about made me cry. So, no visuals for that one (at least not from me).
