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The Munsters is my latest Netflix-streaming obsession, to watch all 68 episodes from beginning to end. Besides getting a plumb education in old-school broad...
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The Munsters is my latest Netflix-streaming obsession, to watch all 68 episodes from beginning to end. Besides getting a plumb education in old-school broad...
If you’ve read this column enough times over the past few months of its existence, it’s easy enough to see where my nerd allegiances...
One day in eighth-grade English class, these two girls decided to hit on me for fun. I, like many nerds in junior high, didn’t...
After working Christmas weekend, I took a few days off to ring in 2012 in my hometown Philadelphia. My fiancee and I packed four...
How is it already so close to Christmas? It’s a few days away, and I swear it was just Thanksgiving. I know it was....
This week I picked up 50 Words For Snow, the latest record from Kate Bush, music’s dream queen. It’s more a collection of song-poems...
Life is full of marvels, isn’t it? Many are so commonplace that people forget they exist. One of those marvels is that I am...
I recently had engagement photos taken. Sure, I proposed to my fiancee Christmas morning, but with the wedding not happening until October 2012, it’s...
A week ago I was out with my father at the record store as he looked up new jazz and R&B stuff. He said...
They look at me with their sad, beguiling eyes. “You know you want us,” they taunt. “Oh, you’re taking us home today, aren’t you?”...
I got new eyeglasses for the first time in three years. And as usual, they’re pretty different from the last pair. But the most...
I wake up, drink two glasses of water, and fire up the cable box. In my mind, I’ve geared myself up for working out,...
Aside from my glasses and an occasional Thor T-shirt, my nerd markers aren’t too visible most of the time. I may look bookish, but...
Out of all the nerd stuff I follow, toy collecting is the most hidden. I don’t really talk toys with anyone aside from a...
Sword in one hand, staff in the other, Gandalf turned toward the balrog. He shouted: “You! Shall not! Pass!” and brought down the stone...
Last week I bought a TRON: Legacy identity disk toy. Not the regular, Frisbee-looking one, but the “deluxe” one that lights up and makes...
Last weekend I was in Philadelphia to meet some friends at Reading Terminal, a world-class food market in the middle of downtown. It’s busy...
In the past few months, I’ve been re-watching The Cosby Show in entirety. I’m currently on season 6, when the show jumped the shark...
You probably noticed that my cute Blerd Vision bug has Raj from What’s Happening!! in it. FOG! editor-in-chief Stefan picked it out for me,...
I still can hear the roaring crowds. The fist-pumping, shoulder-grabbing people – rushing to cheer, congratulate, even join in. When you sing Journey’s “Separate...
How was your Tron Day? Mine was swell. April 5 was the release of Tron: Legacy on video. And since seeing the movie in...
I’ve never said this in public before, but I’ve always felt this way. I could always feel the desire burning inside me, the urge...
You never know what can happen when geek worlds collide. Conan O’Brien decided to unleash the chaos after figuring out that his TBS show...
Fringe is moving to Fridays, so that can mean only one thing for this always-rumored-to-be-canceled show: It’s really gonna die, this time. Fox says,...