Who's Annette, and why is she Running?

A friend sends me an invite on Facebook for an event: Official Net Runner Tournament.   The catch was that it was at a card shop near me called Anime Imports, and it was a Friday night.  That means that Magic the Gathering events would be going on at the same time.  What the hell - I need to write an article, so I plan to show up.  Nathan tells me that I should play in it.  He'll teach me how to play on the day before.  That sounds like a recipe for success, right? (No. -Ed)

The Maze Runner is "The Event" movie of the Summer.

Personally, I'm really excited by the current state of Young Adult Fiction. Despite the rebirth of the genre coming from series I'm either indifferent to (Twilight) or sort of annoyed by (The Hunger Games), there's a lot of really good and interesting stuff happening in that world, and a lot of fantastic book series, like Mistborn, being rebranded for a new generation to discover. It's great, and I fully support the YA fever that seems to have swept the nation. Anything that leads to more kids reading is great. Anything that leads to more kids reading fantasy and sci-fi, to me, is even better.

So, I was excited to go and check out The Maze Runner. The previews showed a really cool mystery, an interesting location, and some decent acting from the usual twenty year olds pretending to be teenagers. It seemed like Lord of the Flies meets...well, a maze, and that could be really fascinating. When I saw the final movie, the mystery was there. The acting was there. The setting was there. But the movie fell into a deep trap, one we should long ago have learned to avoid. One that is exemplified best by a short-lived television series on NBC known as: The Event. Spoilers for The Maze Runner to follow.

Rejoyce, citizens of Strongbadia! Homestar is Coming back

     Citizens of Strongbadia, Free Country USA will be allowing internet visitors to once more espy the going-ons of their favorite denzinesy.  Though the itty bitty tid-bit were were given in April was deemed to be a ploy to fool the fools of April, an anonymous tipster has told the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Podcast that there is more to come. More Strong Bad? More Homestar? More hidden features?

Ok....I'll get to the quote. -Ed

     This whistleblower, going by the nomme D'internet Matt Chapman, had many secrets to tell. "When we did that April Fools update this year, way more people looked at it than we ever even imagined would have at this point. Our goal — we did that thing as sort of a test to get back into doing it." He went on, we imagine, after adjusting his luxurious and identity concealing false mustachio  "We'd love to start making things again...It depends on how whole-hog we go, if we give Strong Bad a Twitter or Strong Sad a Tumblr."

     A Twitter....for Strong Bad? Are those tears in my eyes?