2015 won't be as cool as we hoped in the 80s, will it?

Have $30k or so lying around the house, and you just don't know how to get rid of it? Why not hop on over to eBay, where you can be the next bidder on this:



That's right, children of the late 80s/early 90s, it's the goddamn Hoverboard from Back to the Future Part II! And no, it doesn't work: the one up for auction is made of wood, and will fall to the ground with a devastating clang if you try to hop on. Still, if you have the kind of disposable income to casually snap this up, you could probably afford to develop the technology to make it work as intended, which I wholeheartedly recommend.

[11:39 AM]

31%!

Last week, I mentioned that Rush would appear on the Colbert Report. Now, there's a behind the scenes look at Rush at Colbert headquarters playing their own song on Rock Band (and failing miserably):



Poor, poor Alex.

[9:38 PM]

And the award for most unlikely TV musical guest goes to...

Canadian sort-of-prog-sort-of-hard-rock trio Rush will be performing live tonight!... on TV. More specifically, The Colbert Report.

Which is kind of odd. They've never been on SNL or Letterman/Leno or anything. And yet they're somehow going to fit Neil Peart's behemoth of a drum set onto Colbert's relatively small stage. I have no idea how this is going to turn out but I can't imagine it would be anything less than amusing.

So remember tonight to hop the turbine freight home to watch as they're captured by the camera eye and subsequently make electrical airwaves crackle with life! Be cool by watching or be cast out. Uh... Xanadu! (dear god kill me)

[11:24 AM]

Tom Cruise killed in plane crash

...is the inaccurate subject line of a spam email I just received for "enhanced" anatomy meds.

I guess it's a smarter tactic than the incoherent pseudo-beat poetry that spammers used to think would somehow grab our attention.

[11:18 AM]