Seven Handy Tips for Winning at Live-Tweeting
If Twitter ever needs TV ads, its theme should be “Birdhouse in Your Soul”.Thanks to the invention of the internet, the convenience of the smartphone, and the rise of Twitter as the premier...
View ArticleWhat Buzzfeed Gets Wrong About Your “Geek Number”
My quiz results don’t tell me how many other geeks I outrank and are therefore useless to include on my resumé. My Facebook friends love sharing internet quizzes out of the boredom of their heart, but...
View ArticleHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Internet Rape Threats?
The cover heard ’round the world. Art by Kenneth Rocafort. Other working titles for this entry included “Why I Avoid Comic Book Discussions”, “Comics Industry Spends Easter Week Debating Baseline Human...
View ArticleComics are for Everyone. Period.
Design by Jordie Bellaire and Steven Finch. See unaffiliated link at end of entry for buying from them. This shirt doesn’t exist yet, but I’ll be camped out in line as soon as the line forms. Hot on...
View ArticleMCC Request Line: Live-Tweeting “Batman & Robin”
That time when Batman, Robin, and Batgirl started wearing black…black like the studio executives’ hearts. Fish in a barrel? Sure. But sometimes it’s nice to relax for one evening with some frivolous...
View ArticleWhy I Shouldn’t Be Around Memes
Family and some friends may have noticed I’m not on Facebook often nowadays. Or maybe they haven’t noticed because so many other people aren’t on Facebook often nowadays, including said family and...
View ArticleMCC No-Reason Live-Tweeting: “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance”
How much of this mid-transformation shot is CG and how much is the real Nicolas Cage? I’m not asking him. YOU ask him. While my son is off living at college and my wife finds other things to amuse...
View ArticleMCC Live-Tweeting: “Sharknado 2: the Second One”
Shark and Tornado. Tornado and Shark. Who’s the master and who’s the servant? Because too many viewers patronized the first one! Thanks to America’s unreasonable groundswell of bemused support of the...
View ArticleScenes from the Class Struggle in Ferguson, MO
Michael Brown’s stepfather Louis Head walks through Ferguson, on or after 8/9/2014. (Photographer as yet unknown. Source: blue cheddar via Flickr cc)I’ve lost all ability to concentrate tonight because...
View ArticleThere’s Nothing Wrong with Your Internet Connection. For Now.
90% of the following message was provided as an unpaid courtesy by Battle For The Net. The other 10% is value-added MCC editing and reformatting. * * * * * If you woke up tomorrow and your internet...
View ArticleThe Official MCC Guide to Finding Joy in Blogging All Wrong
If you’re pressed for time, please feel free to pretend this photo of our dog Lucky wearing a bandanna is today’s entire MCC entry, toss him a happy “Like”, and read no further. He’s used to that kind...
View ArticleThe Desperate Search for the Rare, Elusive, Original Reboot Joke
All-new all-different Scooby-Doo art by DC Comics VP Jim Lee. To the EXTREME. Just when you thought entertainment corporations had cooled down on the idea of rebooting their property catalogs, along...
View ArticleOn Pasta and Copypasta
I guarantee this spaghetti dinner was not made by photographing someone else’s spaghetti dinner and then cranking out a replica on a 3-D printer. Last night my lovely wife made spaghetti for dinner...
View ArticleMCC Live-Tweeting: The “Sleepy Hollow” Season 3 Finale
In which Ichabbie bids us a clumsy, ill-conceived Ichabbye. Okay, after a self-mandated 24-hour cooling-off period, I think I’m ready to tackle that Friday night fiasco. Once upon a time, Midlife...
View ArticleGreetings and Regrets from the Indiana Primary Scene
The pathway to my precinct’s voting HQ, marked along the way by glimmers of hope and dread. Today I performed my civic duty as an Indiana voter and participated in our May 3rd primaries despite the...
View Article“Ghostbusters”: Best Film of the Year, Possibly, Let’s Assume
For Your Film Award Consideration. Like, all of them, because we have a dream. Normally I wouldn’t review a film till after I’ve seen it, but I get the impression from some corners of the internet that...
View ArticleIt Takes More Than Seven Minutes to Save America
Another year, another free sticker. Too bad I haven’t owned a Trapper Keeper for sticker displays since junior high. Once again it’s Election Day here in America, the taut finale to one of the worst...
View ArticleTrump: Trump trump Trump? (Trump…Trump?)
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View Article5 Reasons Why Glitter Guy is No Chewbacca Mom: Our Searing Hot Take
No one wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves, “I wonder if someone will slap a chyron under me today.” Misleading Headline Disclaimer: this is really more of an “If We Were Having Coffee…”...
View ArticleMamaw’s Big Fat Fraudulent World Tour
What’s wrong with this picture? The answer may shock you! Or possibly not! Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: in November my wife Anne and I made our annual excursion to the Indiana Christmas Gift...
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