Screw Politics

The American International Toy Fair

Toys: Not Just for Kids!

Characters on Parade at the New York Comic Con

Comic Con. For nerds!

The International Gift Fair, a Satanic Den of Consumerism

This week, I visited the International Gift Fair at the Jacob Javits Center, where suppliers displayed their wares to potential retailers. Basically, people who make things set up a booth in hopes that people who own shops will attend the convention and order lots of the things for their stores. So, imagine this: 3 floors [...]

National New York Boat Show, Not Just For Rich Jerks

I visited the Annual Boat Show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, and I fully expected to meet a bunch of rich, white jerks who voted for McCain and were out of touch with reality. And yeah, they were there. But everyone was for the most part nice to me. And they [...]

E3 – Booth Babes, Geeky Gamers, and More

So, I was hired by UGO.com to cover E3 at the Staples Center in LA. They hired me because they knew I’d have a lot of fun with all the insanity there: the booth babes, the nerdy attendees, the overlit, overproduced shrines of consumism – all of it. They were right. I had way too [...]

Wired NextFest – Shirts That Hug You!

I’m totally a tech-geek, I’ll admit it. Well, ok. I’m an everything-geek, and technology is no exception. So I went to check out Wired’s NextFest to do a little crashing, I was psyched! I really love Wired magazine and even subscribe like the nerd I am. I get all my geeky info from alternative news [...]