Author: blue midget

  • I Find Your Lack of Pants Disturbing

    If you haven’t heard it on the news or seen anyone wandering around without pants, today is National Underwear Day. Arise, pantless masses! Come forth in your boxers, your tightie whities or your thongs! It makes me yearn for the days of Underoos! Everyone I knew had a different kind and they were cool because…

  • Chapter Two – Further Instructions

    “This week should be fairly quiet out in the big black, except for a small meteor shower moving through a few sectors of the Colonies beginning this Thursday. Officials report that the Sanctioned Planets will not be in any danger, although it will cause issues for some travelers over the next few days.” Instead of…

  • The Bachelor Crisis

    It has come to my attention that the bachelors of North America are facing a crisis. Just recently I was talking to a coworker in my office, who happens to be newly-bachelorized (PC for “divorced”) as well as a single parent. We were chatting about our weekends, as coworkers do, and the conversation migrated to…

  • Chapter One – Arrival on Tab Kabelac

    The skids touched down on the landing pad, engine fans blowing red and brown debris in the air. It wasn’t so much of a landing site as it was a patch of barren ground. Then again, most of the planet was pretty much just that. This particular system had become popular after terraformers were able…

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    Dungeons & Dragons for Dummies

  • Ask Blue Midget

    It’s that time again! Email your questions and comments to , and we’ll get them posted here with answers. Dear Blue Midget, I need advice on how to make my girlfriend stop spending money on things for the house like STICKS that are “decorative.” I mean, we had an agreement to not spend money on…

  • Reader Submissions

    It’s a very exciting thing, when redshift reports that more and more people are visiting the site every day, every week, every month. When he gives us the numbers, I look at him blankly and think, “People are seriously reading this?” Yes, it’s true. We’re even starting to get email submissions with oddball questions. There…

  • The Mystery of the Box Office Slump, Solved: Your Movies Are Crap

    We’re all movie experts in our own right, aren’t we? We know what we like. It may not be what the next person likes, but what we do like, we are experts at. And in the past, there has always been a movie to suit our individual and collective tastes. Not this year. I have…