Annoying my friends is not enough, I need strangers ...

Welcome to blog. This is more of a place where I can post research, joke fragments, story ideas, links to political essays -- little publishing bits and rants now that I don't really have time to do stand-up.

The idea of blog-as-research pit (he calls it a "newsmine") was originally suggested by filthily talented writer and occasional drinking companion Warren Ellis, who has his own little record of our world's ongoing yet molasses-paced apocalypse over at Die Puny Humans. (WARNING: That is not a work-safe site. It is barely a brain-safe site.) You will note he also references a monkey, but that is pure coincidence. His filthy monkey plans. My monkey is a monkey of action.

We'll talk movies & television (both as product and industry), conspiracy, politics, comics, gaming, blatant logrolling for friends, and general weirdness. There will be occasional updates for my family, to in some way convince them that I'm not negligent in my attentions, merely eccentric.

I've always felt, "the price of attention is entertainment." I'll try to be a fair value, but know that I'm fully aware very few of you are really paying all that much attention.