Nerds
Oxford Has Put Heavy Metal, Mesopotamians, and Noh Theater Together at Last
In a play entitled 'Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria,' concerning the life of a seventh-century B.C. king, written by an Assyriologist DPhil candidate, blocked in the style of Japanese Noh theater, and scored by a quantum physicist with an...
Let's Colonize Outer Space
I would like to donate my ova to NASA so that they can raise babies in a highly controlled environment, see how human physiology changes over time/in weird circumstances, and help us get on track to colonize Mars.
Are You Pissed That Disney Is Making a New 'Star Wars'?
But does the sale really change anything? Hasn't 'Star Wars' been shitty for years anyway? Shoppers in Forbidden Planet, London's comic book Mecca, are you pissed that Disney is making a new 'Star Wars'?
Hunting R.L. Stine at the Year’s Biggest Thriller Conference
I went to ThrillerFest—a three-day-long nerd orgy for the writers behind those spooky paperbacks with the embossed covers you see at checkout counters. The speakers were a bunch of obscure writers I’ve never heard of because I lost my virginity a long...
The Babes of Comic-Con
At some point in the last ten years or so a mutation occurred in the nerds' sexual pheromones, and instead of ensuring a solid 20-yard buffer between themselves and the opposite sex, babes are now drawn to geeks and their penises like the Millennium...
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #57
You don't need to collect memes into books. If you want to profit off of them, put them onto T-shirts.
Off Hollywood - Eddie Deezen
When Eddie Deezen turned 18 his father offered to buy him a Dairy Queen, but Eddie had his sights set on showbiz.
VICE Mail
Dear Vice, I was incredulous at all the bullshit literature illustrated on the cover of your Fiction Issue. Whose bookshelf was that? Some 19-year-old with a sweater complex who thinks he's Holden Caulfield?
My Other Soapbox Is Your Ass
Do you like Polack jokes? I've always been a big fan of them. An Italian, a rabbi, and a smiling Polack walk into a bar.
God Damns It
He is using his evil and gigantic brain to cross-pollinate the embryonic cells of quails and ducks.