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The Difference Between Literal And Metaphorical? One Dead Body
It’s a good thing that teenagers, both dudes and dudettes, don’t really understand the literal meaning of literal. I mean, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard one young dude or the other...
View ArticleHow Great I Am
Every once in a while I run across something that is so amazing, so wonderful that goose bumps start running up and down my arms and I get that feeling you get when you’re in the presence of something...
View ArticleSunday Scream: Network
When it comes to screaming about the state of today’s life, about the horrors of being on television, only one scene even comes remotely to mind. It’s Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network, as an...
View ArticleBoom On The Moon
You dudes know that I like to look at the night sky and talk about all the cool stuff up there. Well, you should know that. If you’ve been around here more than once or twice. You have, haven’t you?...
View ArticlePacific Rim
Look, dudes. It’s okay to admit it: Giant monsters are cool. Giant robots are cool. Giant monsters fighting giant robots? So far into coolness it’s developing new words for how cool it is. By which you...
View ArticleVery Cool Stuff From A Floating Canadian
If you’ve not been paying attention for the last couple of months, you dudes probably didn’t know there was a Can-eh-dian up in space. On the International Space Station to be exact. Chris Hadfield,...
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Buy A Ticket At Walmart, See Man Of Steel Before Nationwide Opening! Aw, Yeah!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Warner Bros. Which means I’m getting a little bit of cash to tell you something I would have done anyway. Mostly I would have written about this to...
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The Weirdest Places On Earth
Other than your basement, I mean. What? Come on, it was a joke, dude. Just a joke. Okay, fine. I take it back. What I’m not taking back, though, is that the Sierra Club has gone and collected up some...
View ArticleSchool’s Out. . . For Summer!
Yeah, dudes. Today is the last day of school for students and teachers who are part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system. Which means that Hyper Lad and I are free for the next couple of months....
View ArticleAwesome Science Trick With Hot Coal
Every once in a while I’ll be reminded that the world around us is just abso-frakkin’-lutely amazing. That just happened yesterday. Here’s a bit of background. Fire and rust are exactly the same thing,...
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Science: In Which We Find The Astonishing. . . And Then Drink It
About a month ago, scientists in Canada found what they consider to be the oldest undisturbed cache of water on the planet. This water had been sitting under a huge rock for more than 1.5 BILLION...
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Sunday Skillz: Human-Powered Helicopter
Human-powered flight has been a dream for mankind as long as there have been minds capable of looking up and watching with envy as the birds prowled our skies. I dare any of you dudes to tell me truly...
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How Bigfoot Fits Into His Genes
Bigfoot still is a mystery, dudes. I know. It’s a bit shocking. Especially considering all the hoo-ha a couple of months ago when a researcher claimed she had a some viable Bigfoot cells and was on the...
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The Future In The Palm Of Your Hand
No, not like that, dude. Geez. Get your mind out of the gutter. And, no, I’m not talking about your futurephone this time, either. Nope, what’s got me all riled up today is the pure, tasty,...
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Around Saturn With Cassini
The Cassini spacecraft is an amazing piece of awesome, dudes. Launched in 1997 as the Cassini-Huygens space probe, the Huygens probe was dropped onto Saturn’s moon Titan in 2005 and returned some...
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Fight The Power
I know you dudes have all heard a lot about the mutant menace, but I want to talk about the other menace, the one you don’t even notice because it’s been there for so long. For more than 40 years,...
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Sunday Show: Boulet’s Long Journey
Here’s a lovely little something for you dudes today. Instead of a song, I’ve got a journey for you all to take. But first, a question: Just how bored would you have to be to seek adventure by crawling...
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Rolled Flat
I am such a little kid. Let me explain. For the past couple of weeks, Buzz, the garbage disposal who walks like a dog, and I have been semi-trapped in the spacious confines of Dude Manor by road...
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It’s A Dogfish Eat Dogfish World Out There*
Every once in a while, there comes a picture that is so awesome, so fantastic, so amazing it would be a crime not to share it with as many people as possible. I’ve actually stumbled upon one of those...
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The Past Of Days In The Future Or Something Like That
A while ago, I wrote a cute little post about how Sentinels were real and confessed to being more than a little geeked out about the upcoming film, X-Men: Days of Future Past. A Sentinel, by the way,...
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