Mental Floss Exclusive: Our Interview with Bill Watterson!

For the December issue of mental_floss magazine, Jake Rossen managed to do something we thought was impossible—he snagged an interview with the legendary Bill Watterson! Since we’re guessing there are a few Calvin and Hobbes enthusiasts in the audience, we thought we’d provide a glimpse of the e-mail exchange.

Owing to spite or just a foul mood, have you ever peeled one of those stupid Calvin stickers off of a pickup truck?
I figure that, long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.

Click here to read the whole story.

Battlestar Galactica: A quick look back

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I’m currently working on an article on Battlestar Galactica that’s set to be published on the tenth anniversary of the premiere of the TV mini-series this December. Looking back I’ve actually written quite a bit on BSG over the years. I thought, and still think, that I was lucky to be alive when new episodes were being produced. (Or, how can you tell if someone’s really into TV? They say things like “lucky to be alive” when talking about TV series.)

Here’s most of the longer pieces I’ve written on BSG since the premiere of the show:

This doesn’t include shorter blog posts because, in my infinite wisdom, I made it practically impossible to link to specific older blog posts when I archived my blog content off an older CMS I built myself. Note to self, never work in ASP again. 😉