Every week, usually around Wednesday afternoon, a special, magical, delicate hunk of my soul withers like a flower petal and falls off.
Any time I put something online, I have the hardest time grappling with that moment when the blog post or column or bon mot I wrote disappears from the site’s front page, having been […]

While you’re waiting around here for me to say something interesting (and good luck to you, sir or madam) why not check out my most recent iFanboy column?
I know what you’re thinking: “Something something Spider-Man blah blah Catwoman.” But, in fact, no; today’s offering would fit in quite well on this very site. It hews […]

In addition to my usual writing duties at the comic book discussion site iFanboy.com, this week I was also lucky enough to guest host (or, I guess, guest cohost) their Pick of the Week podcast. Every week, the gents take turns picking the best thing they read last week as well as discussing any […]

(if you missed part I, how dare you, and also it is here.)
On the morning of my wedding, I sat alone on my old bed in my parents’ house for an hour, staring at my rented tux in the mirror. We had watched every video, listened to every lecture, attended every class, taken every quiz […]

Father Bob consulted the Vatican after our first meeting. At that moment, I should have known that Chuck Taylor would keep me out of heaven.
The sun was setting when we parked in front of the rectory that first night, but the June heat was still pitiless. The Church of the Immacollatta loomed at the […]

Five years ago, my life was completely different. I had the same parents I have now, but that’s about it.
Five years ago last month, I didn’t know my wife. Not in the way my dad doesn’t know my mom; I mean we literally had not been introduced five years ago last July. I was living […]