If you are at the dentist's office and would like to open the small talk by discussing the ongoing NCAA Tournament, do not open by saying "My bracket's destroyed." The dentist might take it the wrong way and become concerned, making for an awkward situation as you attempt to explain.

As I sit here and digest some fairly important news, I am reminded about this little sequence I found on YouTube a while back:



The lesson here, as always: don't mess with Jawas.

Leave it to a defender to wax mythic (and not unintentionally familiar) about the origins of the City of Heroes.

(The story posts have been collected and posted on this forum.)

This is a black hawkstrider, a ridable mount in World of Warcraft. It's not meant to look familiar. No, really, it isn't.

So, as per usual this early in the week I hit my favorite local Chinese restaurant during my dinner break. And, as they sometimes do, they added a fortune cookie to my meal. My fortune? "You will have gold pieces by the bushel."

This had better damned well not happen in bed. I can just imagine how sleeping on that stuff would tear up my back.

Here's a weird message that was on my answering machine last night:

"Hello, this is [NAME REDACTED] calling for Michael. You have good news! Just call [RANDOM TOLL-FREE NUMBER] to find out what it is." *click*

And no, I didn't call back.

Without additional comment, the full version of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya"'s end credits dance.

As found by the fine folks at the Pinnacle Role Play Congress, two wonderful finds on YouTube: a 40+ minute stab at a live-action console RPG, and a one-minute treatise on why we all find Bruce Campbell to be so bad-ass.

...as presented by Eric Burns, writer and majordomo of Websnark. He lays it out better than I can.