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“The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow.” — Mark Twain Earlier today, I took Ryan with me to the party store to buy some wrapping paper for my brother’s birthday present. At the checkout, there was one of those kiosks that plays selections from fifteen or so CDs of “party music.”…

Last week, Entertainment Weekly called my manager, and said that they were going to write announce Just A Geek in this week’s issue. I told my manager that I was concerned, because Entertainment Weekly has always written really cruel and misleading stories about me and my website, but the reporter assured him that this would…

I really wish I had that talking moose from Vacation to put here, or at least the ghost of John Candy. But since they’re currently unavailable . . . Anne and Nolan’s birthdays are coming up, Ryan is out of Summer School, and I think I need to take some time away from the ‘net…

As of this writing, there are 200 people registered in the $5 tournament on September 12, and 79 people in the $20 tournament for September 14. Math is hard, but I think that means that, within just a few hours, poker players have already contributed $3620, which is actually $7240 once PokerStars matches the contributions….

In this week’s Games of our Lives, I ask:Ever wonder what Donkey Kong would have been like if the game had talked to you in a weird underwater voice? Or what if, instead of playing a tough little carpenter fighting a giant cool gorilla, you were a wussy little lumberjack fighting a giant lame-o bird?…

Even though I’ve been doing interviews for almost twenty years, it’s still a challenge for me to keep it brief and simple, because that’s completely at odds with how I talk in real life. See, I look at interviews as an opportunity for The Audience to listen in on a conversation I have with a…