Speak of the Devil (or at least Devilshly handsome...)

Speaking of Mr. Nice Guy, I found this crammed into my email inbox this morning, with a crudely written, booze spattered note telling us to shut our pie-holes and post this:

I guess we're lucky he didn't spell that first word with a "u".

Great things to come

Thank you, Shenanigans, for getting things set up and kicked off. I'm looking forward to good things from you and Mr. Nice Guy. We've been talking about doing something like this for quite some time and I'm excited to finally be working on a joint project with you guys. I'm hoping more of our community will join in the discussion from time to time.

Here's a short introduction to me and the kind of stuff you can expect to see me post. I fill my Google reader, Twitter, and ITunes podcast library with science news, tech stuff, role-playing, board gaming, and video game industry info, consumer advocacy news, political fact-checking and satire sites, skepticism and educational feeds, short stories from the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres, and a smattering of humor, web-comics, and internet culture reviews.

When I'm feeling particularly excited, angry, or maybe just gassy about something I've read/heard/seen I'll blunder onto this site and vomit my opinion at you all and then I'll stumble away in a confused haze to gorge myself on more media until the whole ugly process starts all over again. And if that doesn't get you excited I don't know what will!

Now I need to get back to my feeds or else I'll miss something important on the internet!

Let's get this out of the way...

Well, here goes, our first post on this, our understated (for the moment) but ambitious blog.  

We're voracious consumers of media (almost degenerately so); news, movies, TV, books, comics, games and Web content all fall under our Sauron's Eye-like gaze.  So that you, dear reader, know how to think about said content we will give you unfiltered opinions, which means whatever we feel like spewing about whatever we see.  This is also an experiment in adage "quit your bitching if you don't do it yourself", as my dear grandmother used to say when I complained about dinner.

My posts will generally focus on news, current and classic TV and film, gaming, cooking, tech, and other nonsense.  Jefe will tell us what he's got on the stove; it'll be good stuff I'm sure.  And if we're good we'll get original comics and musings from the talented Mr. Nice Guy.

Comments, questions, and your own nuggets are welcome.  We'll be posting our favorites from other Egotists, and even our favorite Dumbasses!

Welcome to Empathetic Egotists.