Happy Birthday, Weird Al Yankovic.
Thank you for 33 years of laughter and fun…
… and for being the geek you had to be.

Right… tell me there’s a Ray Bradbury fan out there who’s looked at the number on the image to the left and gets the joke.  Tell me the title isn’t causing massive coronaries on the part of my book-reading friends.  Tell me you’ve ready Fahrenheit 451.
Yes?  No?  If you have, isn’t it good to be [...]

It’s been five  months since I started this whole get better thing began.  If you’ve been reading since May, you know that since starting to actively try and lose weight, to make myself a healthier me, I’ve had my ups and downs, weeks where I’ve dropped a few pounds, and even a couple where I’ve [...]

Remember those Schoolhouse Rocks! cartoons, the ones they showed back in the 70s and into the early 80s?  The one that stuck with me dealt with the number three, multiples of three, and how the number seems to pop up a lot in life.  This week, “three” has personal significance because it’s the number of [...]

Generation X provided us with nothing if not a rich variety of entertainment options with limited technology and a limited budget, and few films that have achieved cult status amongst those who grew up in the 1980s exemplify that fact as thoroughly as The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Those of you [...]

If indeed there is such a thing as a regular reader of bigsimon.com, said reader is probably wondering where yesterday’s weigh-in post went.  The calendar hailed the arrival of Saturday some eleven hours ago, while I was laying in the dark, staring at the place where there should be a ceiling, and I realized with [...]