We all grow and change, shouldn’t the climate? — I’m one of those people who don’t like drama. Not into it. I’m always having to tell people, “Don’t bring your drama to me.” But I tell you what — Brenda is a bitch and needs to die in a violent car accident. You know why? Two words — climate…

The summer I spent playing the greatest video game ever made — I was 7 years old in the summer of 1996. Summer vacation. Kids were supposed to spend their days outside, swimming in the Midwest humidity and dodging roving gangs of mosquitos. Being poor had its perks. Parents couldn’t afford babysitters or any kind of adult supervision and so I’d be…

Life is a useful lesson and I’ve lived through many lessons — God. I used to be such a whiny, spineless jag. Like you. A human carpet everyone walked over, spit on, let their cats piss on. You get it. I was human toilet paper for the assholes of the world. Then I changed. The time after my “metamorphosis” was full of…

It might be a tad more bamboozling than you think — Technology was supposed to improve our lives. Mostly, it has. There’s an app that cancels all those subscriptions you signed up for and forgot about. A website that buys all the tickets for concerts off Ticketmaster and resells them on their website for more money without offering any additional benefit…

You’d think with a TV budget they’d be able to get this right — While no one exactly knows what FX’s The Bear is about, we can all agree that no matter how accurate a show is — even when we don’t know what it’s trying to accurately capture — nothing is perfect. However, sometimes a television show doesn’t even get basic facts of…

Just because something won’t happen, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t prepare for it — Everyone knows how to survive flash floods and nuclear winter — but what do you do if you fall through reality and end up in The Backrooms? …

The True Crime of True Crime is lack of bootstraps — Few things wake me up in the morning like reading about the brutal murders of prostitutes. Coffee doesn’t even come close (although crack does). However, we can’t call them prostitutes anymore. We have to call them “sex workers” as if the name is the problem rather than the fact they’re…

We ain’t trying to be dramatic, but you’re doomed. You’re all doomed — Most travel writers lack the qualia that makes, say, A Walk in the Woods or American Psycho such enlightening reads. Shucks, half of ’em just copy what someone else wrote, run it through a text scrambler, and post. Other times they just make stuff up; call it all “travel hacks.”…

Why “Rambo: First Blood Part Two” is such an awful sequel — Thunderdome is a Fanfare series where our writers good-naturedly debate some matter of pop culture and then leave it to the readers to decide. Read each post and vote at the bottom! The second Rambo movie is one of the worst sequels of all time. I say “one of” because…