Most of you probably don’t know, but I’ve been watching (and to a small degree, participating in) the Real Life Superhero movement for a short time now. Don’t know what that is? Let me put it this way:
Superheroes are real.
It’s amazing, and completely true. Walking the streets of our cities are men and [...]

Okay… so I’ve been itching to try this, and tonight I finally took the time and did. Putting together some scenes from Superman Returns and the music from Toby Mac’s “Extreme Days”, I’ve posted my first fan-made music video on YouTube.
Now… it’s fairly amateurish, I know. Some of the transitions aren’t that great, and the fades are [...]

What kind of social commentary does it make that Parker Brothers has teamed with Toys R Us to begin sales of a new style Ouija Board.  The updated fortune-telling tool, which has been long purported to allow its users to contact spirits who can pass them information from the Great Beyond, is now available in [...]

So, I applied for college today, and in doing so, also filled out my FAFSA.  For those who don’t know, the FAFSA is the Federal Application for Financial Student Assistance (I think).  Basically, it’s the application that will determine if you’re getting a Pell Grant, SEOG, and Stafford loans.  It was a long application, which [...]

Okay, so it’s been a while – eight months, in fact – and I’m going to be starting up Two Truths and a Lie again on Wednesdays.  Since I never answered the last one, I’m going to just update this post so anyone who still might be reading after all this time (and an address [...]

It looks like I’m going back to college.
Pretty cool, huh?  In the process of making all these sweeping changes in my life, this is just one more, piled on top of the others.  I’ll be headed to a local community college for a couple years, then off to a nearby university to finish my Bachelors [...]

Someone on boards I visit regularly recently asked about the most significant injury his fellow posters had ever sustained.  Here’s my response:
I’ve fallen from twenty feet of scaffolding. I’ve been hit by a car. I’ve run into a truck. I’ve been in two vehicles that rolled. I’ve been in numerous fights. I’ve been struck by [...]

If the President of the United States can do it, why can’t I?
For those who have kept up, I moved the blog away from The Simon Project and started using an old domain I had sitting around, the one I used for blogging way back in when online journals were new.  That’s change number one. [...]