Category Archives: Hatboy’s Nuggets of Crispy-Fried Wisdom

Cancel of the Week: Dilbert (Another Hatboy’s Lukewarm Sociocultural Events™ Special)

Okay, fuck it, we’re doing this. The “descent” of cartoonist Scott Adams has really only ever been of tangential interest to me, sort of like the stately collapse of Gina Carano and the supernova-level bed-shitting of Kevin Sorbo. These are … Continue reading

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On this day, back in the final year of the Twentieth Century, I turned twenty-two. I was in Manhattan, cowering in a dingy hostel and all alone in a city of eight million people. No small fraction of whom were … Continue reading

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The Rings of Power

Okay so I guess we’re talking about this. There is a new piece of the Lord of the Rings saga being adapted for the screen. After the functionally-impossible-to-top trilogy of the early 2000s and the well-meaning prequel trilogy of the … Continue reading

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Little Soul

Today we found Sandy, our old Siberian dwarf hamster, had curled up in her little house and died. Sandy was a good hamster. She’d lived a long life – over two-and-a-half years – and had been getting steadily scruffier and … Continue reading

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The Sad Case of Lauren Hough

I don’t want to make this comment into a whole post but this has turned into another really fascinating facet of online and modern human communication culture. Also, I got blocked on Twitter! I get it, blocking is damage control … Continue reading

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Ulkomaansplaining: Sima

Sima, or mead, is a classic sweet drink brewed for the 1st of May around these parts. In Finland they call the day Vappu, and it’s a day of general merriment and drunkenness (I may have talked about it before … Continue reading

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Saying Things On The Internet

I don’t think I ever talked about this directly, or made a blog post about this specific case. I know I’ve talked with a few of you about it to varying degrees of depth. But anyway, there’s this YouTuber who … Continue reading

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The Strange Case of Gina Carano (A Hatboy’s Lukewarm Sociocultural Events™ Special)

(I added this as a podcast interlude, using the female (Remy) voice. It’s pretty fucking funny.) Once upon a time, there was a martial artist turned actor named Gina Carano. She played an evil mutant in the first Deadpool movie. … Continue reading

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Weak Ass (P)ideology

Remember the WAP song? Remember how conservative snowflakes lost their minds about it[1]? It was funny. P-word is, uh, female genitalia. Classic. One facet of it has been rattling around in my head for a while, and it’s a silly … Continue reading

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Interlude: Good Man

Courtesy of Twitter, and a good conversation I had recently with my boy Aaron. I haven’t had much to put on the blog lately but this seemed to fit the bill. I’ll return to normal production as soon as possible. … Continue reading

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