July 2010

684 – White Smoke Mountain • 52

July 16, 2010

The Thursday Blog: Pick Your Superpower Edition

July 15, 2010

One of mine and Lena’s favorite car games is Stupid Superpowers. The idea, as you might guess, is to come up with comic book “superpowers” that, while they might be useful in exactly the right circumstance, are probably not really all that “super”. A template for this would be the movie Mystery Men, where superpowers included such [...]

Read the full article →

683 – White Smoke Mountain • 51

July 14, 2010

We have a Wiki! Upper-right hand corner… check it out! See something you think needs to be in there? Write it up!

Read the full article →

The Tuesday Videos: The Musical Edition

July 13, 2010

The first video is here for a variety of reasons. This kid sounds good, he’s clearly having fun, but most of all it really makes me smile. This to me is one of the best things you can do with YouTube… other than overdubbing old Star Trek episodes. This next one smelled a bit viral [...]

Read the full article →

682 – White Smoke Mountain • 50

July 12, 2010

Read the full article →

681 – White Smoke Mountain • 49

July 9, 2010

Read the full article →

The Thursday Blog: Wonder Woman Edition

July 8, 2010

So Lena is really hot about this. Before I met my wife I knew that some of the Wonder Woman episodes with Lynda Carter had nazis, and some didn’t. That was most of what I knew, or cared to know, about Wonder Woman. I didn’t have anything against her, she just wasn’t one of the [...]

Read the full article →

680 – White Smoke Mountain • 48

July 7, 2010

Read the full article →

The Tuesday Videos: HISHE Edition

July 6, 2010

This week’s selection is a sampling from that wonderful fixer of other peoples’ pop culture, How It Should Have Ended. These guys take our most popular movies, poke their fingers through the plot holes, and fix ‘em up with duct tape and sarcasm. You can probably understand the appeal this would have for me. The [...]

Read the full article →