With two weeks to go until Christmas, it’s pretty much a guarantee that everyone has at least one holiday party coming up. Perhaps, even, you’re the person in charge of throwing it. The general requirements for a Christmas party are pretty simple: finger foods, lights, drinks, and plenty of Christmas carols on the stereo. Not that we have anything against traditions, but these alone can leave parties feeling a little, shall we say, boring after a while (or maybe I […]
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Virtual Insanity: Playing Games and Shirking Sleep for Charity
If you would like to donate to the Children’s Miracle Network, you can do it here . Hello, world! In a way, this is the first official post in a new Popblerd feature called “Virtual Insanity”, dedicated to all things video games. I’ll give a proper introduction next week, with some of my history with video games and what to expect in each weekly installment. So for now this is more of a portent of things to come. But gamers out […]
Spin Cycle: That Handsome Devil’s “The Heart Goes To Heaven, The Head Goes To Hell”
I imagine that relatively few people decide to go to a rock concert twenty minutes before it starts. But, see, my wife and I were spending the week in Boston, and we had a Friday night with nothing on the docket. There was talk of a movie; there was talk of dinner, but ultimately, we wanted to do something unique, something singular. Take in a play, or some jazz, or climb a mountain (which, to be fair, is kind of […]