The Harry Potter Festival just got more cringe

Last weekend, thousands of Harry Potter fans descended on Chestnut Hill, PA for the 7th annual Harry Potter Festival on Germantown Avenue. For seven years, this flamboyantly jejune exhibition has granted both disappointed children and brazen developmentally halted adults the ability to frolic in unfettered glee in what would otherwise be an unmitigated playground of derision, a…

Harry Potter and the Grand Wizarding World of White Supremacy

That guy who is known for portraying Harry Potter is going to star as an undercover FBI agent who infiltrates white supremacist groups in order to prevent a terrorist attack!?! Sign me up! After watching a few interviews with Daniel Radcliffe explaining that the dialogue was so harsh he had to apologize to his fellow…

Talking Nerdy, Ep. 196: Furries for a Fascist Europe

The Walking Dead is filming again / Live on Facebook / Dan gets a new phone / The Big Fucking Giant / Assassin's Creed is doomed / Bratzis will be the end of Johnny Depp / American Hogwarts / Dan Mansplains #Supernatural Tweets from Girls on Twitter / Game of Joes / The Misfits are…

I Love Movies, but I Hate Yours: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

And so it ends. Eight movies, all glorious; millions of fans, all utterly devoted; billions of dough flooding the bank, all very much deserved. The "Harry Potter" franchise truly has become a gigantic staple of contemporary popular culture, each magical movie wonderfully adapted from the beloved series of bestselling books written by celebrated British author…

The SuperDPS Guide to Un-Sexy

As an American male who has long-since been desensitized to the likes of Two Girls, One Cup, I think it's safe to say there is very little taboo in this age. You can be a sexual deviant and be a mega-star. You can be a child predator and still wind up making it big on…

Gryffindor FTW!!

Once in awhile, I'll happen upon something that I will--for a short time--consider the "Greatest Thing Ever." While this practice is often more spasmodic and arguably useless than Keith Olbermann's lists of Best and Worst Persons in the World, it often serves to satiate my otherwise excruciating somnambulism during the average work-day. Just about every…