2013 was a bit of a benchmark year for me in the realm of my personal life. Over the course of the last twelve months I have: successfully not shit my pants (time left), moved into my first official apartment with my girlfriend (I was squatting in hers), spent hundreds of dollars on caffeinated products, proposed to said girlfriend and begun planning a wedding, played far too many hours of Borderlands 2, stared at far too many asses on Tumblr, taught my first classes (I love it), and hung with the Gang Omega far too little.

The drawback of a boomin’ personal life is that pop culture has flowed through my brain with far too little interaction this year. What I perceive, I half perceive. What I enjoy is fleeting. Worse still, I’ve ventured very little out of my comfort zone. Indie games, comics, movies, and fetish sites have been largely ignored due to want of time.

As a result, my list is a pedestrian collection of my favorites from a very sad little slice of what arrived onto the scene this past calendar year.

Excelsior.

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Adolph Hitler. Thor. 1980’s cop movies. Viking babes. Dinosaurs. Kung Fury is poised to be the Blood Dragon equivalent of movies. I’m in.

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Cap 2: Bucky Is Back, Butt Hurt, and Brainwashed is going to be awesome. The trailer that ran before Thor 2: Seriously You’re Trusting Loki in IMAX was fucking fantastic. The Winter Soldier himself looks awesome. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t find his comparison to Grumpy Cat a bit amusing.

Hit the jump for more grump.

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Astronauts on the ISS are installing what they’re calling a “live” version of Google on the ISS. Whatever could go wrong with this? Besides — you know. The inevitable Robotic Uprising of 2014. Jesus Christ. We’ve given them a perfect perch from where they will be able to monitor the human labor camps, building their 50 foot tall robo-bodies.

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Amazon dun good this holiday season. Like, way good. I thought I was crushing it sell my crusty socks-turned-Jennifer Lawrence puppets. Sold three! One to Rendar, one to my fiance, one to my Mom. And Rendar didn’t even cry as I got my money from him at spork point, unlike the other two.

But man, Amazon did way better than me.

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Iron Maiden ain’t fucking around with their pirates. Unlike some blow hard former-heroes of mine (Metallica!), the righteous bros of Maiden do the opposite of persecuting the pirates. They tour the piracy-laden regions, making huge loot off of their concert performances.

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As 2013 winds its way down, it is a bit quiet in the geek-o-pop-culture-sphere. So have some simple yet effective Polaris cosplay.

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Hi kids.  Pull up a chair and grab a juice box, its story time.  I’ll be honest; I don’t really have much of an opinion for this week’s Opinions Vary article.  What I do have is my synopsis for a movie I wrote called Road to the Point.  Road to the Point is an ambitious tale that attempts to chronicle the obvious, but frustratingly untold, story that takes place between the movies Roadhouse and Point Break.   So hit the jump and get a towel ready, I’m about to blow your mind.

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How long until Bitcoin isn’t the future anymore? And it just becomes this really wondrous currency that I don’t fully comprehend? (Like actual currency, to be honest.) Cause place after place is adopting the currency for real-life, bona fide products.

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It’s official. I didn’t want to acknowledge it. But now it’s official. I have a bit of a heartbeat-quickening attraction to Flemeth from Dragon Age II. Whatever. YOLO! Unless you’re a dragon-lady, then you probably YOLForever or something. Hey whatever.

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