I told someone in an email that one of the things I looked forward to about owning a Mac was that, since there were fewer games available and most were of the kind that I don't play, there would be...

This is a video I made for the Birth Year Project, started by Fuzzy Dave. It was my first real project made in iMovie, which was much easier to work with than Windows Movie Maker. 1975 from jay on Vimeo...

...I strongly urge all of you to watch this video in it's entirety immediately. You might wish to use your head phones as the sound quality is crap. Preview of the upcoming Family Guy Star Wars special "Hey when we...

Loosely inspired by. I am having a hard time deciding between two songs that are both vying for the title of "jay's official musical guilty pleasure of summer '07". One is the new track from everyone's favorite boy-band-that's-not-really-a-boy-band, Maroon 5....

Thank God I Was Raped [via] On one level it seems a little harsh to criticize this video, creepy as parts of it may be to certain viewers such as myself. After all, gratitude in the face of hardship...

I decided to embed the vids this time around rather than linking. If this causes any problems (slow loading or the annoying tendency of some videos to not play sound when too many are open at once) let me know....

A documentary in short snippets by comedian Eddie Izzard, produced by The Discovery Channel in the UK. The documentary deals with how many of the things (language, monarchy, food) which are thought of as being quintessentially English are, in...

Around this time every year publications begin to publish their "Best of $CURRENTYEAR" lists, each jostling for position as the definitive list of its kind. I have already started to see a few such lists out on the blogosphere, and...

I have been off work since last Friday. I ended up without the necessary funds with which to travel, so I am stuck here at the house until next Wednesday, when I go back to work. At this stage of...

The Death Cab/Ted Leo show on Thursday night was really, really great. Ted rocked significant portions of my face off and Death Cab made my heart swell and pound. I ended up with two extra tickets due to Josh dropping...