Last year, I had the pleasure—and honor—of utilizing my luxuriant upper lip to help combat men’s cancer by raising funds and raising awareness about men’s health as a participant in Movember—the month formerly known as November during which men grow moustaches as a visual aid to help with the aforementioned fund raising for men’s cancer research. I helped to raise, alongside my compatriot Matthew Lubicky, over $1,100 for the cause! It was a good effort and the testicles and prostates of the world are a little bit safer for it.
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Wheat Thins Crunch Stix?!
Back in May, after substituting Wheat Thins for a more substantial lunch due to extreme busy-ness, I began a conversation on Twitter about crackers. My hypothesis: While the Wheat Thin might not be the best cracker in the world, it is undoubtedly the most addictive—in a good way, of course. Surprisingly, many of my followers on Twitter are—apparently—avid cracker fans and I was soon defending my position against suggestions like Cheez-Its (Too heavy!), Triscuits (Too hearty!), Pita Chips (They’re chips!) and Chicken in a Biskit (Too rich!). Make no mistake, all the suggestions I received were for tasty snacks and delicious crackers, but few—if any—rise to the level of addictiveness that Wheat Thins achieve.
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: I Loved it! HARD!
I’ve made no attempt to hide my extreme excitement for Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.” After waiting patiently, and then irritatingly missing a series of advanced screeners for one reason or other, I finally got a chance to see “Scott Pilgrim” this weekend… and I loved it!
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SUPER TIMELY BLOG POST ALERT! My Comic-Con experience in bits and pieces.
I went to my first San Diego Comic-Con three weeks ago. Long story short, it was a work-filled, more or less sleepless, alcohol-infused 6-day bender of nerdiness. Long story even shorter, I had a blast.
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Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”… Saucier than you thought!
One would expect a comic by the masterful Jack Kirby about a race of space gods, a population of hideous evil mutants and a small clan of immortal super humans to be mind blowing, but would you expect Eternals to be racy as well?! Ripped the pages of issue #5, take a gander at this exchange!
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My name… IN COMICS!
I really should have realized this before, and it’s kind of a little thing, but I just noticed that my name appears in every Dark Horse comic book. In the company colophon featured in each Horsepower letters column, my name is listed alphabetically under the marketing department header.
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Continuing a Pre-San Diego tradition
Last year, I drew a cartoon for my buddy Josh Wigler as he worked vigorously to prepare for Comic-Con International in San Diego. Josh used that cartooned image of himself for his Twitter icon up until last week… when he asked me to doodle him up a new face to run alongside his tweets. Busy with Comic-Con prep work for Dark Horse myself, not to mention I needed to do laundry and other assorted chores in preparation of a week away from home, I still wanted to keep the tradition going and doodled up this new image while washing my unmentionables.
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Get your follow on: Seen All Over and the return of Nothing More American
If you find yourself residing online way more than what’s considered healthy (much like I do), you’re always looking for fresh blog blood to make your Google Reader a more diverse and interesting venue. Presuming you are like me and that applies, let me make some site recommendations for your reading pleasure…
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By Crom, Conan can Frisbee!
“Back to the Future III” would have us believe that Marty McFly invented the Frisbee when he time traveled to the Old West. Turns out Robert E. Howard’s Conan was flipping discs as far back as the Hyborian Age.
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