I have a confession to make. I love picketing. Every day, I spend four hours walking back-and-forth on a sidewalk in front of 20th Century Fox Studios. Four hours of protesting the movie and TV producers’ corporate greed. Four hours of light, low-impact cardio. Four hours of cool, breezy fresh air. Four hours of cars [...]

It’s probably a good thing that the “Dubledore is gay” story is old news. If J.K. Rowling dropped that bomb yesterday, it would be hard to resist writing a bunch of obvious jokes about this entry-level comedy-delivery premise. I mean, a gay wizard? Who could say no to that? It writes itself. I.E. it’s easy. [...]

I don’t know if there’s anything nerdy in Venice. Though all that half-ruined masonry does remind me a bit of Gears of War. Anyway, that’s where I’ll be next week. Posting will be intermittent-to-nonexistent.

My name’s Matt Selman. I write for The Simpsons. Well, I used to. (Strike!) Time.com has awesomely offered me a gig co-blogging on Nerd World. The other guy, Lev Grossman, seems pretty good at it so far. Lev is an actual journalist. He’s intelligent and funny and drinks four big glasses of wine at expense-account [...]

Matt will be co-blogging with me from hereon out. He’s very nice and smart and has actually done something with his life, namely working on The Simpsons for like forever. He’s in IMDB and has Emmies and everything. Please give him a warm Nerd World welcome! I don’t know what that means. I had wine [...]

YouTube pulled Sturmgeist89′s account, but it lives on in Google’s cache. Incredibly disturbing.

Pretend I’m a huge idiot. I’ll make it easy for you.

Dawn is the coldest time in the Mojave Desert. Dawn is also really, really damn early. It was at dawn that I rolled into the Southern California Logistics Airport, a deactivated Air Force base in Victorville, Calif., an hour and a half east of L.A. This was the site of the DARPA Urban Challenge. Why [...]

Here they are.