2007-12-04: I'd like to see poo and monkeys face off in head-to-head comedy competition, which is exactly why I demand a playoff system and the end of this BCS...
2007-10-01: Random Garfield = awesome! Here's one I “made” with the generator: http://www.printculture.com... I love the idea that the “them” in the last panel refers to the 63 times Jon fell down, but which he...
2007-09-14: Bonus points since the Austria / Australia confusion keys one of the opening jokes in Dumb and Dumber, which, yes, involves an awkward “G'day...
2007-08-14: Part of it, too, is that pro football makes a spectacle of this competition (in much the same way that the NFL generally aims for the spectacular, I suppose). With so few games compared to the other major sports, everything gets compressed and...
2007-04-25: One other thought on the idea of ornament - even in goods-as-capital based games like EverQuest there is an element of ornament to the virtual goods one has. So, on one hand, you could note that the heavy emphasis on the game part of that virtual...
2007-04-20: This isn’t a direct response to your piece, or at least I can’t exactly make it line up even though reading this essay inspired the following observations. I’d say the common element is the consideration of the virtual world online RPG character...
2007-04-17: On something of a different note, here are a couple of thoughts based on a meeting I just came from this afternoon made up of students and faculty from our honors program. 1. The other faculty – me included – seemed somehow more put off by the...
2007-04-12: It doesn't happen all that often, but every once in a while it's like printculture is on the...
2007-04-11: “I'm not clear, having not attended many such functions, whether formal means 'no pants'?” I'm no expert, J Lee, but I can tell you that nothing says formal to me like someone who's not wearing any pants...
2007-04-02: I'll try to get K Klingensmith, she of “Which one is basketball?”, to a computer for some well-deserved smack talking as soon as she's done burning sofas in the street in celebration of OSU's most recent win. Meanwhile, of course, go...