Brian Thompson
Brian is the editor of The Amateur Scientist (www.amateurscientist.org), a daily news blog covering science, politics, religion, and dick jokes from a skeptical perspective. He also produces and co-hosts The Amateur Scientist Podcast, a skeptical comedy program whose past guests have included magician James "The Amazing" Randi, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, Upright Citizens Brigade member Matt Besser, and the Cigarette Smoking Man himself, Mr. William B. Davis. All aspects of Amateur Scientist Industries are meant to promote reason, humanism, and dick jokes.He also edits GameSnobs.com, a site about video games and the virgins who play them.
Brian's writing has also appeared in Skeptical Inquirer magazine, on the popular chick-centric geektainment site PinkRaygun.com, and in the book 101 Things Every Man Should Know How to Do, in which he advises readers on how to grow a successful beard.
Blogs by this Author
Forget Mark Millar’s take on Superman. “Epic” and “archetypal” are just synonyms for “flat” and “lifeless”. There’s no there t...
I live in the South. No, I’m not talking about the metropolitan South. This isn’t some suburban wasteland of grocery stores and strip malls and planned communities like Oaky ...
I always thought M. Night Shyamalan just wasn't a very good writer. Too many scenes in his movies come off stilted. His characters feel like robotic plot devices--like they're all puppet...
The recent announcement that Johnny Depp will be playing Tonto in a new Lone Ranger movie may have come as a surprise to many of you. It would make far more sense, you thought, if Depp were pl...
A while back, Devin issued a call for thoughtful discussion of The Dark Knight that didn’t take the form of a top ten list. Was he referencing the questions I asked myself while watching...
Last week, I wrote of my harrowing journey through the bowels of the Downtown Atlanta Sheraton into the sweaty belly of the beast that is modern Star Trek fandom. I attended a Dragon*Con screeni...
I ducked out of Dragon*Con a little early Monday morning so I could beat the hurricane back home to Louisiana. For those who don’t know, Dragon*Con is the largest gathering of something ...
The Mountain Goats make the best music. Let’s throw out that fan-wank conceit that any aficionado’s tastes should be too dense and layered to let any one artist rise to the top.&nb...
I’m not going to write about The Clone Wars. Not because George Lucas bullied me into an embargo. Lucas hasn’t bullied me into doing anything other than get the hell off his ...
Last week I began a look back at the summer movie season of 1994 in an attempt to contextualize this year’s excellent, though potentially overblown, crop of blockbusters, blockdenters, and blo...
