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Fox News is Trying to Kill My Dad (And Probably Yours, Too)

Jef Rouner — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

I spent a very frustrating weekend trying to convince my father to go get vaccinated. He’s in his 70s with both multiple sclerosis and lymphoma. With the Delta Variant running through the unvaccinated population like a grim reaper that has discovered m...

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Growing Up Poor and the Art of Video Game Item Hoarding

Jef Rouner — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Something comedian Robin Tran said has stuck hard with me: “I think there’s a lot of unexamined panic from fearing scarcity and it comes up in random ways, not using items in video games, not throwing away leftovers.” That sentence hit me like a train ...

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Station Theater Re-Opens, Featuring COVID Expert Dr. Peter Hotez

Jef Rouner — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The improv and sketch comedy scene across America has been hit very hard by COVID. Major locations like the iO Theater in Chicago and Dallas Comedy House announced permanent closures, and our own Station Theater was one of the first venues to shut its ...

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Don’t Mourn Your Child Growing Up

Jef Rouner — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

There’s this parenting piece by Laurel Anne going on around on Facebook that’s been shared over seventy-thousand times about how you blink, and your children have already grown up. A sample: Whether you are enjoying where you are in motherhood today or...

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Bayou City Comic Con Looks to Start Small

Jef Rouner — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Longtime Houston event organizer Ginger Simon is looking to enter the comic con game this fall, and her first attempt looks like it just might be small and notable enough to work. The Houston fan convention scene is in a tumultuous state, and it’s not ...

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A Tale of Houston and Free Flying Through Space

Jef Rouner — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Bruce McCandless II is the most famous man you probably don’t recognize despite having seen him thousands of times. That’s him above in one of the most iconic photographs ever taken during the space age. In the futuristic year of 1984, he did what no o...

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The Seven Most Bizarre Shark Movies

Jef Rouner — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Ever since Jaws defined the modern summer blockbuster, there’s been something about sharks that has bitten into the human mind and never let go. More than any other animal and even more than some monsters like vampires, sharks remain a go-to symbol of ...

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How Self-Identified “Liberals” Get Radicalized to the Far Right

Jef Rouner — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks reporting on both ivermectin as a COVID cure and the newest wave of dangerous anti-vaccination nonsense (spoiler: the two are deeply related). Since then, my email has been a non-stop neurotic cabaret of screwballs, ...

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I Think COVID Might Have Irreparably Damaged Our Kids

Jef Rouner — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Every Independence Day since my child was three, the Kid With One F has spent the night with my mother. Mum lives out on a big plot of land just outside Channelview where no one cares that the night will be filled with fireworks. Combined with my stepd...

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5 Things A Metroidvania Needs

Jef Rouner — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Metroidvania is a term used to describe a certain sub-genre of video games that mimic the style of Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. In general, they are non-linear, two-dimensional side-scrolling action games that have a focus on e...

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10 Fun Facts About Ivermectin, the COVID “Wonder Drug”

Jef Rouner — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Ivermectin has been touted as the miracle cure to COVID-19 that is being actively suppressed by Big Pharma and the world’s governments. It’s become particularly popular with people who are against efforts to vaccinate the population against coronavirus...

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The Real Dangers in the False COVID Remedy Promoters Like Bret Weinstein

Jef Rouner — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Two months ago, I implored people to get vaccinated against COVID instead of taking horse dewormer, and my email has been a circus train of screwballs ever since. By far, the largest number of messages I get implore me to seek out the work of Bret Wein...

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Opinion: Doxing is Not Some New Antifa Tactic; It’s Old Right-Wing Terrorism

Jef Rouner — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

One of the most frustrating articles I’ve read this year appeared in the Washington Post earlier this week. Crime reporter Robert Klemko did a deep dive into the life of Edward Jeremy Dawson, a man who has been a part of various far-right groups linked...

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Loki is the Doctor Who Gallifrey Story I Always Wanted

Jef Rouner — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

The latest Marvel series Loki is, well, marvelous. Like WandaVision, it’s less about flashy superheroics and more of a character study of one the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most nuanced villains as he transforms into anti-hero. It’s also exactly what ...

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Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Defends Anti-LGBT Political Donations

Jef Rouner — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Scott Cawthon, the Houston-born/Austin-based creator of the hit horror game series Five Nights At Freddy’s, is a major donor to Republican politicians. Records from Open Secrets show that since 2015 he has made $42,204 in contributions, almost all of t...

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Racist Backlash About Netflix’s Sandman Casting Gets its Own Backlash

Jef Rouner — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

When it was announced that Black British actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste would be playing the role of Death in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s celebrated comic book series Sandman, the reaction from some corners of the internet was as vici...

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Responding to Internet Creeps Leads to Bizarre New Shared Storyverse

Jef Rouner — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a social media account must be in want of creepers asking, “u up?” Few people take this ubiquitous experience and turn it into a bizarre shared storyverse set in Bar Harbor, Maine, bu...

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AstroWorld Fan Shuts Down Homophobe in Awesome Way

Jef Rouner — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Happy Pride Month. Would you like to see a ridiculous homophobe get absolutely owned by a woman in an AstroWorld hoodie? Me too! The person screaming in this Tik Tok uploaded by boilyourbottoms is known as Sister Cindy Smock. She and her husband, ...

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What the U.S. Senate Needs to Learn from Texas About the Filibuster

Jef Rouner — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The filibuster is currently one of the most hotly debated topics in national politics. The threat of one is enough to hamstring the United States Senate so that nothing can pass without a 60-vote majority. This includes the recent commission on the att...

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Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the Road to Secret Wars?

Jef Rouner — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

As the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets properly underway with a combination of movies and television shows, the big question is what will the next Endgame look like. Who will be the new Thanos, a cosmic threat that gathers all our hero...

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