...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.