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Category: Video

What would you pack in your FUNvival backpack? [video]

We’ve all seen preparedness bags. Full of boring stuff like food and water and flashlights. Instead, I’m going to show you how to pack not for SURvival but for FUNvival.

What backpack is that? http://ogio.com/renegade-rss

May 8, 2014
TBR + TBD: To Be Read + To Be Drunk | May [video]
I’ve never done a To Be Read video. Why? I don’t care for them as a viewer, so I felt somewhat false in trying to project excitement for caring for them as a creator. However, I think I’ve found a way to easy my conscious. Introducing: To Be Read + To Be Drunk, in which I tell you the books I’ll be reading as well as the beers I’ll be drinking. Enjoy.

What I’ll be reading:
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
What I’ll be drinking:
- Steel Toe Stout from Ska Brewing
- Samaels from Avery Brewing
- Huge Arker from Anderson Valley Brewing
- Raspberry Imperial Three Blind Mice from Mother’s Brewing
- Lil’ B from Evil Twin Brewing
May 4, 2014
When is it okay to correct mispronunciations? [video]

People mispronounce things all the time. Hell, I do it like five times in this video where I specifically call attention to mispronunciations. So, is there ever a socially acceptable time to call attention to such linguistic slander?

April 30, 2014
When is the right time to stop reading a book? [video]

Lately I’ve started to contemplate how best to address my ever-growing TBR pile. I’ve realized that it’s not so much the quantity of books that prevents me from making even a dent in the pile, but more my absurd practice of reading every book to 100% completion, even if I know by page 10 that I won’t like the book. This, I have learned, must change.

So, how do a break up with a book when I know the relationship is going nowhere. Please help me!

April 26, 2014
Rural family noir: a video book review of In the Devil’s Territory by Kyle Minor [video]

Kyle Minor’s In the Devil’s Territory is rural family noir at its best, with lots of back-woods religion overtones, and family dynamics rooted in harsh sexism where women are taught to be subservient to men and men are trained to exploit that subservience.

Buy it here.

What am I drinking? Schlafly Coffee Stout. Mmmmmmm.

April 23, 2014
We Play Stephen King Plot or Adult Swim Show! [video]

Come spectate upon a rousing game of Stephen King plot or Adult Swim show in which I read a brief synopsis and you tell me if I’m describing the plot of a Stephen King book or of a TV show on the ridiculously Stephen King-like network Adult Swim.

My guest today is Gordon Highland.

April 18, 2014
We Play Bukowski or Bukkake! [video]

It’s time for another (the first ever) round of Bukowski or Bukkake, in which I show you a magnified image and you tell me if it’s a picture of the pock-riddled face of writer and poet Charles Bukowski or the cock-ridden disgrace at the center of a bukkake.

My guest today is Gordon Highland.

April 12, 2014