Felicia Day just announced an international initiative to get people playing tabletop games. Her YouTube channel Geek & Sundry has put a lot of focus on tabletop gaming with their original show “TableTop” hosted by Wil Wheaton and the distribution…
Bullying is one of those subjects that gets talked about a lot in modern media. Yet, from my own experience, it’s very rare that a film, TV show, web series, etc. actually hits on the lasting impacts of bullying. I’ve…
Bravest Warriors is an animated web series from Pendleton Ward, the creators of Adventure Time and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack on Cartoon Network. The show follows four futuristic teenage heroes who work as soldiers for hire. They warp throughout…
Leave it to the mastermind behind Regretsy to once again turn concern trolls into entertainment. Helen Killer, aka voice actor April Winchell, took a leave of absence from the popular Etsy-mocking website to launch a new series. The details were…
Comedy music duo Hard ‘n Phirm (Chris Hardwick, Mike Phirman) put out a new video last week that’s pretty special. The pair was inspired by the Ermahgerd meme to write a midtempo love song. Not familiar with the meme? It’s…
Sweet Fever, the web series about a candy store owner willing to do anything to earn the top prize in a professional pillow fighting league to save her store, needs a little help to finish their first season. I raved…
Tony Harris, the award-winning comic book artist of Ex-Machina, Starman, and many DC/Marvel series, has taken a passionate stance on the subject of cosplay at conventions. Harris posted a long rant on his Facebook page admonishing women who he believes…
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary on San Diego Comic-Con, came and went without much fanfare. It was a portmanteau documentary, telling a handful of stories about people attending the convention for various reasons. It did a…
If this video doesn’t make your day better, I don’t know what will. We’re dealing with a video that promotes peace and unity with absurdity. A band of Klingons performs a Wookie song that translates to “Peace.” Then, a Wookie…
Today, I turn 27 years old. Despite working as a freelancer writer for just shy of ten years now, I still get excited by the entertainment writing. I love watching people go back and forth over ideas and sharing their…
This is not a sports blog primarily because of my lack of interests in sports. Yet, in some rare instances, sports crossover into my entertainment media radar. Discussions of the NFL referee strike are becoming ubiquitous on news programs. The…
When I learned that Felicia Day was running a romance fiction book club called Vaginal Fantasy Book Club, I didn’t pay much attention. I’m not exactly the target demographic for romance fiction. What I know about it–the paperbacks with dreamy,…
This season on Sesame Street, the popular “Elmo’s World” segment is being replaced by “Elmo: The Musical.” Cookie Monster and Grover visited Entertainment Weekly to promote the show and their own musical prowess. The result is very sweet and funny.…
A Slenderman nightmare by way of an Atari dot chase game that never existed. That’s a new one. — Robert (@robertjgannon) September 24, 2012 I tweeted about it yesterday, but I might as well come clean: I love the idea…