ManWithPez

Yo dawg! I head you like bitin' other dawgs. Here ya go!

Being a surly, slightly overweight nerd, I’m certain you’re thinking that I’m about to say “physical confrontation” and the fights I like to avoid.  You’d be wrong this time, however.  Certain groups of people tear into each other verbally or in whatever way, and I just get embarassed or bothered to the point that I can’t BE bothered.   Everyone knows everyone has an opinion or two of their own.  There’s just no need to force it out of most people.  The Fights I Like To Avoid…and why, after the jump. (more…)

Talk back to me again, and you'll be riding high tide, you got that?

Today is my son’s birthday.  In honor of this, I’m going to write a little piece about some of my favorite father/son relationships.  However, as is my wont here at ManWithPez, none of these are what you’d consider traditional father/son relationships, ohhhhh no.  In fact,  only one pair is actually blood related.  Having said that, I think we’ll do without the typical rank structure I usually employ with these types of lists, and just jump in.  Who’s ready?  I know I am, and before I go on…Happy 7th, Alexander.  Daddy is very proud of you.  Fathers and sons after the jump. (more…)

You wish you wrote this good, looked this good, was this cool!

I’m a huge nerd.  I’m fine with that.  Truly!  Anyways, when I was a child of the tender age of 8, I had a book taken from me in class.  That book was Stephen King’s Night Shift.  And really, there isn’t much a better short story collection out there.  The point is that I’m a lifelong Stephen King fan.  And, as presented on this site, Chuck Norris needs someone to fight!  So, why not my favorite author Stephen King!  Stephen King vs Chuck Norris after the jump! (more…)

You come in here trying to take my money?! You get burned.

I like dragons.  There, I’ve said it, and I don’t care what the rest of you think.  As a child, I used to sit and doodle dragons all the time.  I think a lot of us did.  Mine were a little strange, though.  I had all the firebreathing, scaly representations you normally see, but some of mine had dog’s heads and bird’s heads.  I had read that Chinese dragons took all kinds of strange forms, and I drew things like that.  The fish head dragon, I’m happy to say, remains buried for everyone’s sanity.  In doing research for this article, however, I”ve found that the dragon seems to by underrepresented!  So, here’s my personal list of my favorite dragons.  I’m certain you won’t agree with some of these, but feel free to tell me yours!  Dragons, after the jump! (more…)

So...how many dead people are in this picture?

I’ve gone out of my way to try and pester the Twilight set, and for good reason, I think.  That being said, I think True Blood and The Southern Vampire Mysteries are awesome.  Well, season 2 of True Blood was off a bit, but there was enough “What The Fuck” to keep me tuning in.  I’ve read all the books, seen all the episodes, and I think that the people of Bon Temps, Louisiana would be easy to piss off.  Then again, we’re talking about vampires of a distinctly non-sparkly variety, so you might want to tread carefully.  Ten New Ways to Annoy the True Blood People starts after the jump.  Oh…and there are some spoilers here.  Mostly from the books, so watch out. (more…)

I find this horrifying beyond all words. (Except the one's you're reading.)

Picture above brought to my attention by good friend and ManWithPez.com website wrangler Succatash.  This would be one of the changes I’d like to make to the site.  Every so often, I’d like to upset some Twilight fans.  Why?  They’re so damn easy to rile, first thing.  Second, the above statement is 100% true.  Third…I just really fucking hate it.  Look for a Twilight Poke every so often here.  And remember this one thing…Vampires do not fucking sparkle, unless you’ve just hit them with spray-on glitter as a tool to set them on fire. 

Twilight sucks.  And not in a good way.

Shifty eyed manservants! No wonder they're always being accused of crimes!

Butlers throughout fiction are know for their discretion, their reserve, and their work ethic.  Being good at all these thing doesn’t necessarily mean a good butler, since on the whole, it’s a butler that gives his master a comeuppance of some kind that most people seem to like.  The good thing about this list is that there are so many butlers in all forms of media that I can just keep writing about them if I like.  So, don’t be surprised if I’m quite lazy one day and produce a second part to this list when I can’t think of anything else to do.  Or rather, my manservant can’t come up with one.  (That’s my motto:  Blame the help!)  The best butlers after the jump! (more…)

You try writing something like this without Huey Lewis being stuck in YOUR head!

November is time travel month here at ManWithPez, as I’ve pointed out any number of times, courtesy of Doctor Emmett Brown and the invention of the Flux Capacitor on Nov, 5th.  What better time to wheel out a top ten list of my personal favorite time machines in various forms of fiction.  I love the time travel plot device, and some of the machines that writers and prop builders come up with are some of the coolest looking machines ever.  Let’s get started! (more…)

Governor! Please! She isn't even real!

In the course of most science fiction movies, the hero gets a little help from some friends.  Strictly speaking, since we are talking about science fiction, these people don’t always have to be actual, real people.  What?  You never got any help from an imaginary buddy?  Here’s a few of my favorite assistants from science fiction who might not have actually been real, but whose help was invaluable throughout film and television. (more…)

Meet me in the parking lot...Three O'Clock High!

When I watch epic films or TV series, I pay attention to the early relationships formed between the characters.  Why would I do this?  Well, it’s been my experience that the closer the relationship, the better the showdown between the characters when things go wrong.  And things always go wrong!  Then again, sometimes the chemistry works in just a way that you just know these people (or things) are going to throw down and provide you, the moviegoing/couch potato nerds with a fight worth watching!  So, here they are, my favorite showdowns!  (The criteria here is that there has to be a bit of an emotional investment in the fight, and the people involved have to have a reason to rumble.  Also, they have to actually show what happens…so, please don’t come after me with Bucho vs El Mariachi, okay?) (more…)