I always show up late to a party. There is nothing sadder than the start of a shindig. The conversations are awkward, there's the half-assed greetings, sometimes everything isn't set up yet so you get conned into setting up chairs or carrying out plates of cheese. It's terrible! A good party needs time to warm up. That's why I show up late. I wanna show up after all the preliminary lameness has already passed. People have settled in, they're relaxed, and the conversations are

The Internet Age is the best of times to be a pop culture nerd and the worst of times to be a pop culture nerd (That will be my one and only literary nerd reference, I promise). Once upon a time, nerds used to have to sit alone in their dark basement dwellings, screaming to their Worf action figure about how X-Files should have ended after Mulder left the series (Dogget, my ass!). That all changed with the invention of the Internet. Now nerds can sit in their dark basements o