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Emily and I are just days away from celebrating our first year of being (mostly) meat-free.  Last August we decided to stop participating in the wasteful and cruel economies of the big beef, chicken and pork industries.  We became pescetarians (vegetarians who eat fish) in large part due to this provocative essay by transhumanist George [...]

Hey all you Burlington Telecom subscibers!  Now you can watch several of my short films on your TVs whenever you want, for free!  Using your BT remote control, push “menu” and navigate your way thusly: rentals/local content/VCAM/Bill Simmon’s short films.  You’ll need to enter your PIN (provided by BT) but the content is all free.  [...]

Today’s the day that the 2008 Seven Days “Daysie” readers’ choice awards are announced, and Candleblog is pleased to receive the award again.  It’s gratifying to have a plaque to hang on my office wall, but I’m also humbly aware that the winning streak simply cannot last.  There are three important reasons for this. I [...]

See <a href=”http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d” mce_href=”http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d”>Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad</a> and more <a href=”http://www.funnyordie.com” mce_href=”http://www.funnyordie.com”>funny videos</a> on <a href=”http://www.funnyordie.com” mce_href=”http://www.funnyordie.com”>FunnyOrDie.com</a> Not to totally kill the funny mood of this piece, and I realize this Paris Hilton we’re talking about, but it would be unfortunate if any ballcap jocks watching this clip on Funny or Die actually [...]

One of the things that Steve and I talk about on our weekly radio show is how the presidential race isn’t so much a race between Sentator Obama and Senator McCain, but rather it’s a race between Obama and not-Obama.  McCain’s entire strategy appears to be about telling us that Obama would be bad for [...]

I’m adapting a short screenplay I wrote a couple of years back into a comic book script (blogged about here) and it’s a fascinating process.  Comics and movies are very similar media, creatively.  Writing a comic script scratches the exact same creative itch that film directing scratches for me — I take the screenplay, which [...]

The weekend is here!  Please to enjoy these awesome videos… Aw yeah… get your Large Hadron Collider on! Then get your Bert & Ernie on… …and then Get Your War On… Aarg. The 23/6 video embed code is teh suck. Can’t resize it for my narrow-ass blog. Click here to see the video.

The NYTimes Magazine has an outstanding investigative piece about the rise of troll behavior online.  These aren’t your run-of-the-mill potty-mouthed commenters on Boing Boing, these are professional, serious people who have an ideology — a messed up, juvenile ideology to be sure — but they’re not kidding around… or are they? The author is Mattathias [...]

“Call me Snake.” It can be purchased here.  I wear a manly XXL.  Here’s my address.   Via.