Category Archives: Ryan

Raising the Bar

Wine bars. Dive bars. Sports bars. Hipster bars. Cocktail bars. Night clubs. Dance clubs. Music venues. Nostalgia bars. Piano bars. Speakeasies. Irish pubs. Brewpubs. Gastropubs. Gay bars. Biker bars. Etc. These days, there are a fairly bewildering assortment of choices when it comes to finding a place to imbibe alcohol. I haven't even exhausted Read more [...]

Pong Pod: Summer Slam Recap

Super late putting this up, but better Nate than Lever!     Read more [...]

This is the Story of the Hurricane

As I write this, Tropical Storm Florence (née Hurricane) is creeping westward across South Carolina. In a few hours, she will break up into a "tropical depression", because wind speeds will drop below the apparently meaningful level of 39 mph. At which point she will creep up the spine of the Appalachian Mountains all the way up into New England, Read more [...]

Need a Prestige TV Drama? Better Call Saul!

My favorite part about watching so-called "prestige" television is the conversation that it engenders. Not just in terms of the social media response (and all the jokes, memes, hypotheses, and tasseographies that are so integral to that response), but also the experience of catching up with friends the next day to talk about what you liked and Read more [...]

Pong Pod, Episode 3, Pong Rules!

Welcome to the third installment of our weekly monthly whenever-we-feel-like-ly podcat, the Pong Pod! This is actually part ONE of an extra-special two-part podcat, since we talked for so long you might have thought we were playing water pong. In case you missed our first two episodes, you can listen to them on SoundCloud: in Episode 1, Live Read more [...]

Sharks & Recreation

In his seminal book, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, Noël Carroll examines the aesthetics of the horror genre, in an attempt to understand why we seem to find it so viscerally appealing. As he writes, "the imagery of horror fiction seems to be necessarily repulsive and, yet, the genre has no lack of customers." While there Read more [...]

Pong Wins Above Replacement, Part 2

Last month, I wrote a blogcat detailing the basic logic behind a computer-simulated pong game, and how we can use this logic to calculate Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for a given team. This time, I will present the results for this analysis, as performed on the data gathered during NogFest 2015. Before you read this, you should probably make sure Read more [...]

Pong Wins Above Replacement, Part 1

In case you haven't figured it out, we here at Bobcat Territory really like beer pong. Since we started the site in April 2012, we've had 8 blogcats dedicated to the subject. That's a veritable blogclowder (yes, apparently a group of bobcats is called a clowder)! In any case, this will be Part 1 of an ongoing series dedicated to trying to look Read more [...]

Beware the Dark Side

There is very little for me to say that has not already been said concerning the recent election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. It is a result that many of you find shocking, revolting, terrifying, bewildering, and any other number of emotions. There are even some of you who, justifiably, feel personally endangered Read more [...]

Norman Reedus Needs Our Help

No, but, really: I think Norman Reedus really needs our help. He needs an intervention from someone, at least. Because something has gone horribly wrong. Earlier this summer, AMC decided to air six one-hour long episodes of Ride with Norman Reedus as part of their Sunday night line-up, immediately following their new 'prestige' drama Preacher. Read more [...]