21 Saturday May 2016
Posted in Behind the Frames
So, I’m stuck in a lecture on music librarianship, and the gent doing the presentation is explaining all the different types of heavy metal. Including something called “death-metal” and did you know that there’s early music symphonic-cross-over death metal? Yep.
So, I was doodling, ponies, the way you do, and I thought: I wonder what death-metal Bronies would look like.
Here you go.
20 Friday May 2016
19 Thursday May 2016
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture
Welcome back! In part 1, I described some common tricks the pundits use to make their predictions appear accurate after the fact. I won’t be using any of those tricks for my predictions. There are two reasons for this. First, I don’t have an army of pundits backing me up. The self-reinforcing nature of pundits accounts for over half of the perception that they are all geniuses. Second, I am a humorist on the internet. Sometimes people laugh at the things I write. Playing the fool is an honored tradition. Besides, when I am wrong I will get to write a post berating myself, and that’s considered “easy content” in the blogging world. Continue reading
18 Wednesday May 2016
17 Tuesday May 2016
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture
Predictions. Prognostications. Fortune-telling. Prophecy. Whatever you want to call it, a significant number of people from commentators to commoners and bartenders to bookies want to know what the future holds. Nobody wants this more than the pundit class. Continue reading
16 Monday May 2016
13 Friday May 2016
Posted by overgrownhobbit | Filed under Sad Puppies, Worldcon
12 Thursday May 2016
Posted in Life as a Leftie, Politics
America is divided: politically, spiritually, geographically, and humorously. We wanted to help. Enter PolitiDate.
PolitiDate is an app designed to match people with different backgrounds and perspectives. To encourage a deeper level of diversity that is more than skin deep. We hope it will lead to respect, friendship, and maybe even love. Continue reading
11 Wednesday May 2016
10 Tuesday May 2016
Posted in Politics
Today’s boring civics lesson is brought to you by everyone crying, “Why can’t we have a third party?!?” Please use your whiniest six-year-old voice to say that quoted part. Nobody born prior to 1975 should be asking the question. If you were born later, got to attend our stellar public school civics courses, and wonder the same thing: good on you! Intellectual curiosity will always be rewarded at Tempest in a Teardrop.
You may be wondering about my qualifications to write this post. I am a cartoonist. May I ask what qualifications you have as a reader? Continue reading
