My bestest buddy, the BBC, is reporting that TOFU GONNA EAT YO FUCKIN’ MIND!

Or rather – back in reality – the article concerns itself with a study in Indonesia focusing on the effects of soy product consumption on memory – that’s human memory for those keeping score at home. High tofu consumption was associated with worse memory, further theories even connecting it to aiding the onset of dementia. However, the 719 subjects of this survey were all elderly participants so they may have quite naturally not remembered whether they ate Tofu or not, yet kindly nodded when asked by the researchers if they did.

The science actually points to the culprit being things called Phytoestrogens, micronutrients found in many soy products that have effects similar to the female sex hormone oestrogen. This is the same ingested compound [...]

This movie…is not as good as I think it is.

But my thoughts will not change on the matter. I was raised by my parents. When they weren’t looking, I was raised by Nick at Nite, on such shows as Gilligan’s Island, F Troop, The Addams Family and, most of all, Get Smart.

These were ridiculous, escapist comedies that had their own unique worlds and rules. For me, this feeling was markedly intensified 20 to 30 years after their original airing, like a lost signal of a parallel universe providing a black and white static to lose oneself from the modern world.

Watching these shows helped me, at a such a young age, to so quickly become such an old and crotchety man, denigrating modern TV comedy for its lack of imagination…no longer providing an absurdist or [...]

When did Dr. Samuel Beckett NOT have tits?

I am in one of those rare moods. It is a dumb, dumb rage that destroys one’s tolerance for the perception of every single molecule of one’s current existence. In this particular instance, it is caused by not having cone wrenches to fix a bike wheel. And the immediate object of my intolerance is the classic television series, Quantum Leap. I love that show – like crazy – but, with my emotions as they are, I have lost all ability to suspend my disbelief, no longer ignoring plot contrivances or gleefully enduring campy comedy.

For those who care and don’t already know, here is the plot of the show as summarized as it almost always was in the opening narration:

“Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into [...]

I was an avid gamer in my youth, buying every crap game for perhaps no better reason than to stimulate the economy…but I never had a Gameboy. My fat ass was perfectly content glued to my home systems, when I wasn’t busy ramming Doritos down my gullet in perfect time to the theme music from DuckTales or any other fine Disney entertainment of that time period.

I was also very, very skeptical of the Nintendo DS in its infancy, initially viewing it as nothing more than a means to play dumb “Shoot the Clown in the Eye” webvertising styled games. But I too eagerly gambled my tech savvy on this prediction…and lost it all. Luckily, I didn’t talk to more than three people about such opinions back then…so I was fairly safe.

After the initial [...]