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Archive & Blog Posts
2010
August
... In Which I Complain About Having More Transformers Than I Know What To Do With
Too Handsome To Die
Disappointed With Myself
The One True Optimus Prime
Microscope III
July
Stunticon Giftset
Cocksure
This Looks Like a Job For Superman Cake!
God Ginrai Makes Powermaster Optimus Prime Superfluous
June
Crabs, Crabs, and More Crabs
Cast To The Void
Dead and Willing
Five Terrible Lizards
May
A Capricious Girl?
Fireflight Remix
Anon Remora: Beneath The Solace
The Little Minibot That Could
YOGA FAIL
Musings on My Largest Transformers Expenditure Ever
That Wasn't a Very Nice Thing to Say
April
... Are All Dead
Awesome and Terrifying
March
War and Peace: The Truce
War and Peace: Two Autobots
Facebook, Twitter, Email Notifications and Too Much Caffeine
Give a Penny, Take a Penny
Gears and Swerve
Say Ahhhhh....
Being Smart Is Cool
February
I Prefer Them Without Their Heads
True Blue
Counting From One To Ten
Little Bits
One Thing After Another
January
Shuttle Launch
They Look Human, But...
One Megatron, Two Megatron, Red Megatron, Blue Megatron
The Jazz Man
All They Need Are The T-Shirts
2009
December
Robot Heroes Victory Saber and Deszaras
The Soundwaves
Tempted By Laura
November
Ode to the Cassette: Epilogue
I'm a Bad Archivist (but I'll distract you with Aerialbots and Micromasters...)
Ode to the Cassette
We (Almost) Bought a House (But Didn't)
October
If You Build It...
Seek And You Shall Find
September
This Is Not A Test
We Bought a House
Triple the Pleasure, Triple the Fun
Dead And Loving It
August
With Friends Like These...
Whisper Down the Tubes
Genetic Roulette
A Little Random
Terrorcon Spotlight: ABOMINUS
July
He Could Be A Psychotic Killer -- Or Worse, An Atheist!
Misdirection
Small But Tough
In Support of War
Michael Jackson Is Dead
The Lonely Heir Apparent
Or a Big Helium-Filled Beach Ball
Miscellanea Transformia Robusta Deluxi
June
Transcendence
I Saw the Second Movie
An Army of New Scans For You To Edit!
Terrorcon Spotlight: Hun-Grrr
My Favorite Black Sabbath Tribute Songs
Full Throttle
The Infinite and Often Unwinnable Spider
I Can Check That Off My List: The Catalogs
May
Gonna Wash That Rant Right Outta My Hair
Why is Ultra Magnus Smiling?
Agitated
Ravage and Hound (slight return)
Just Swallow
It's Good To Be Home
Terrorcon Spotlight: Cutthroat
April
Everything
Get Me On the Next Train to Metroplex!
TechoYing-TechoYang
March
Monstructor: Towering, Metal-Mashing Menace!
Deal 'Em
Cookie Perspective
Australian for Stupid
Garbage Wreck
A Suspicious Group of Blacks
Warm and Dark
Today Is Gnaw's Special Day!
Charlie Has Betrayed Me
Tell Us What You Don't Watch
What Once Was Yours Is Now Mine
February
Terrorcon Spotlight: Blot
The Predacons
A Baritone in a Tenor World
The Latest Rumor About Galvatron
Microscope II
January
Dinosaurer-er-er, Er, Giant-Evil-Robot-Dinosaur
Two Of Us
Sic 'Em!
Stop Having So Many Babies
You Talk A Big Game, But...
Today's Comic Books Bring a Glimpse of the Future
Ferro-D'oh!
2008
December
Operation: Extortion
Christmas In Hell
The Perfect Decepticon
More
Doesn't Take Much
Bug-Ridden
Terrorcon Spotlight: Rippersnapper
November
He's Got the Touch
Good Gravy!
New Song? (Something About Baking)
I See You, I See You, I See You
A Technobot Legacy
Idiot Samaritan
Destroy First, Ask Questions Later
Expectations
Give In To It
Experiencing History
Deep Breaths, Everybody!
Unofficial
October
Blitzwing Blitzwing Blitzwing
A Ride Across the Moon
If You Can't Laugh At Yourself...
Massive Amount of New Box Art Scans for Editing
War Ensemble
The Five Faces of Awesome
Take My Word For It (The Fine Art of Lying, Conclusion)
This is the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
I'm So Coddled!
September
Show-Off
Fuck You, eBay
Pretender Gargoyles II
My 9/11 Rant
Crabulous
August
My TF Convention Haul (and how it could save your life!)
Another Reason Why Transformer Fans Should Get a Wife
Meeting the Green Fairy
The Incredible David Banner
July
Because It Is
Battery-Powered
When Blue Meant Blue
The Andrew J. Robinson Connection (The Fine Art of Lying, Part Two)
Code Me
June
Let's Agree to Disagree
I'm a Big Boy Now
No Matter How Little
Roll Out!
Werewolf (The Fine Art of Lying, Part One)
And Form Any Arm Or Leg
May
In the Middle of Things
Random Shit You Might Enjoy
Repairing Omega Supreme
Everything All At Once
Head Formation of Friendship
Of Eyelashes
April
Tons of New Headmaster-Era Scans!
Infections (and the Cure)
Terrorcon Spotlight: Sinnertwin
Cross-Reference: Niece
Turn Shit into Gold
Grand is a Relative Term
Ebony and Ivory
Something to Build On
March
Need vs Want
Mine Mine Mine Mine!
Not with a bang but a whimper
Our Top Story
More Black Ink
An Eye For Detail
In Key
Unicron vs Death Star vs Cybertron
February
Every Little Piece
A Major Victory
Don't Knock on the Glass
And Runabout and Runamuck, Too
Get Out Your Decoders
The Autobot Commander Who Would Not Kneel
Sharon Stone's Favorite Pretender
A Good Excuse to Run Through the Subway Tunnels
No, Leave Them On
January
Rant: I Hate Michael Bay's Transformers
Roses Smell Better Than Blorkmerdles
Tick Tock Tick Tock
This Will Feel a Little Weird
Someone Made a Botch
Side-Effects of Watching Three Dozen Headmasters Episodes in About Two Weeks
Blog Post Written -- Check
Anti-Presenteeism (Sic)
Hangovers and the Final Frontier
2007
December
Auld Lang Syne
Oh, How It Pains Me To Do This
About The Same
Head On!
The Gloved One vs The Purple One
Below the Tip of the Iceberg
Colors of Questionable Taste
Oh. Hello.
Scanning Your Transformer Transparencies
November
We're Pregnant! (or "Are These Genes Too Tight?")
Black Friday, White Backgrounds
Super Strong Metroplex, Your Super Friend
Views
Box Art Barter
Decepticons In A Row
Interchangeable Limbs
From One Extreme to the Other
October
Variations on a Theme
It Is Not Hands That Call Us; It Is Desire
My Kingdom For A Horse
Home Is Where The Heart Is
It Was The Year 2005...
Madman! Your Complete Transformers Cartoon Destination
Listen. Name Your Price.
Deep Thoughts (So Deep, Put Her Butt To Sleep)
Lights! Camera! Guess What?
September
Secret Gore
An Autobot Among Stunticons
Lament! Lament!
Crossover Fictional Crappity-Crap Waste of Time
From Brooklyn to Cybertron
Safety Girl
To Hell In a Handbra
Open Letter to Hasbro: Suggestion on How To Successfully Market to the Collectors
Song of the Box Art Archive
August
One Down
I Want My MP3
Blaster Blastin' At Ya
Weekend: The Old and the New
Tsunami the Special-Needs Kitty
Reverse-Engineering the Transformers II: The Olfactory Sensor Knows
Consciousness Without The Wings
Good Night, Ned
July
Ashes to Ashes, Rust to Rust
Vehicle Mode
Comic Book Wednesday III: The Human Sloth
Decepticons Pretending To Be Monsters
More Than Meets The Fry
A Call to Action
Here Comes The Spider, Man
I Don't Like To Brag, But...
I Saw The Movie
Life, Style, Toys
June
Late Night with Micromasters and Pretenders
More Furry Pants
Sharing Our Worlds
Multi-Mode
... Hello Portland!
Goodbye New York ...
May
Enjoy!
Life in a Box
Apartment-Hunting in Portland
For Your Starriors-Themed Party
Loose Botch w/ Weapons, Zero Chrome Wear, Tight
Shameless Album Plugging #2: The Benzene Ring
The Bestest Transformer Ever
April
Fighting Blog Spam
Nobody Knows What Color the Dinosaurs Really Were
The Pressure
Am I An Asshole? (Specific Instance)
Frank Castle Is Insane
Random Shit
Exclusive Preview of the New Transformers Movie
Poster Boy
March
Super-Tasty, Zombilicious
The Problem Is That You're Too Transparent
Shameless Album Plugging #1: Brompton's Cocktail
My Secret Headquarters
Captain America Is Dead
More Art of War
Style Before Substance
February
Gestalt Orgy
Meanwhile...
Embarrassing Or Honest?
This I Do, Being Mad
An Inconvenient Smog Monster
Surfacing From the Depths
Anybody Recognize This?
Classics Review Haikus
Nothing is Godzilla, Everything Is Mechagodzilla; Or, You Can't Keep a Good Mechagodzilla Down
Two Lists
January
Tossed Salad, Scrambled Eggs
Mecha-Opposite Day
Ingredients for a Stew
Slow, Not Too Clever
Forked
Don't Tell Anyone I'm Obsessed
Decepticon vs Decepticon
Microscope
2006
December
Knocking Things Off
Crab As Phoenix
No Whammies, No Whammies
Powered Action, On Command
Underbase Starscream, Revisited
A Phase?
When You're Angry Enough to Give the Very Best
And in This Corner...
November
The Shape in the Shitbox
Medication in Small, Controlled Doses
Why Can't I Be Rich?
How to Wake Up in the Morning
Let's Kill a Gimmick
Get Me Out Of Here
Brain Food
The Sound of Perseverance
Ask Not What Your Box Art Archive Can Do For You...
The War on Terror
Box Art ABCs
A New Low
October
Let's Play Pretend
With Great Power My Ass
You've Put On Some Weight
Feel This Muscle
Magic Wand Tools (Are You Looking At My Chest?)
Finger Lickin' Good
Wait... I Still Function
Of Bugbears and Gelatinous Cubes
With Or Without You
Fuck You, Tom Cruise
Unleash the Beast
Haven't I Met You Before?
September
Point Click Counterpoint
When You Wish Upon a Hartman
Tyranny Through Voice Acting
The Great Red and White Satan
The Mettle of My Metal
Clash Indeed
Tea Time For Overlord
Fashion Savant
Wind-Up Action
Looking Past the Front of the Box
August
Filling Our War Chest
Clip and Save!
Consumated Flesh
Butter Crunch!
Horror Again and Again and Again
It's a Trap!
Nuggets
Desktop Snapshot
It's Rude to Point
Destroy All Monsters
It Never Ends
Anonymous Dinosaur Combiner Team: Unite!!
July
I Fold
Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes?
The Problem With Fleshlings
Sha-Na-Na-Na-Knees (I Wanna Watch You Bleed)
Monster Music
Wikipedia Loves You
The Minus World
Me and Hasbro Customer Service
Triumph and Tragedy (Crab Monsters)
Musical Espionage, Cinematic Spy-Rock
June
Yes, I Heard They're Doing A Movie
100% Weekend
Distilled, Metafiltered
Relaxation Therapy
Local Boy Makes Good
Future of the Kingdom
Sexy Firecons, Va-Va-Vroom
If Wishes Were Decepticons...
May
The Portland Report
Beast Mode! (When Trucks Were Monkeys)
Connections
As Charged
You Can't Punch an Old Man
Sometimes It's Good to Be a Monster
There's a Right Way to Throw a Cat
Living in Meifumado
Had It Forever
April
Improved Edits! (Or, Don't Shake My Cannon Hand)
My Mailbox is Everything; Defeat is Absurd!
Whose Website Is This, Anyway?
Comic Book Wednesday II: Switching Sides
Reverse-Engineering the Transformers (And Their Names)
It's Been A Weekend
War on Eternia
Be Careful What You Wish For
Thank You, And Hail Satan
Different Things
March
Aw, Slag! Profanity and the Transformers
Bad Luck For The Other Stuntrons...
Dead But Marvelous
Sick Cats and Sick Computers
Pretender Gargoyles
I Hate Boring Posts
I Hate Computers
Confessions of a He-Man Junkie
Interview with a Box Artist
The Anti-Idiot Box
Bag Check
The Problem with Mass-Shifting
Comic Book Wednesday
February
Micromaster Caption Contest! - THE WINNER
Opposite Day: Bizarro Luck
Skeletor Casts His Most eBay Spell
He-Day, the Most Powerful Day in the Universe
One More
Life Is Pretty Fucking Awesome
January
Busy Week of Gigging in NYC
Star Convoy vs Metrotitan
Comic Books I Loved Last Year
Crying Indians
The Art of Obnoxious
Superhero Zombies Eat People
Landshaker Eats People
Micromasters and Peanut Butter Cookies
The Most Famous 5 O'Clock Shadow in the World
Alternators Giveaway!
Opposite Day II: More Opposites
Hubcap Is Not Bumblebee
2005
December
The Year in Review
Yes, Botch, There Is A Santa Claus, But...
I In My Kerchief
Prepare for war, but strive for peace.
Recruitment Drive
Pizza Snob
Black-Balled
Welcome to Nebulon, May I Take Your Head?
November
Adam & Botch Go In For Some Maintenance
Xmas and Me
Random Thoughts While in Front of the Computer
The Two Best Albums I've Purchased Recently
A Proposal for How to Count Your Transformers
There's No Fighting in The War Room
Photoshop Studs Wanted
My Apartment, Too
Horrific Week
October
Classic Video Game Screensavers
I Hate Urban Culture
A Properly-Stickered Soldier is an Effective Soldier
Free Stress Test
Status Report
If Donkey Kong II was the Matrix...
Practice What You Preach
September
Anybody Listening? - My Queensr˙che Review
Voices In My Head
Fucken Tyrant (sic)
TV-B-Gone
Son of Botch
The Blog Wagon
I Heart Tech Specs
August
Operation: Matrimony
Rumble is Red, Frenzy is Blue
The Effectiveness of Death
Archive Update
Vector Prime is Mad Fly, Yo
Gainful Employment
Archive Update
Good for the Fandom?
Archive Update
It's Opposite Day
Archive Update
Why Gift Certificates Were Invented
Procreation (What the Hell Are They Thinking?)
July
Botch's Cybercon Expo Report
Archive Update
Black Ink
What Kind of Collector is Botch?
Archive Update
What I Did For My Summer Vacation
Archive Update
Introductory Post
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2004
July
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2003
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