Courtesy, a bit belatedly, of this week's stellar-as-always Onion . Click for bigness.

Barely made it to The Grove in time to catch this new release this evening. Traffic was remarkable, even by West Los Angeles standards. You...

Read this New Yorker article , and hear the story of Judith Reisman, a PhD convinced that, among other things, Alfred Kinsey died from too m...

Your hero and mine, Lil' Donnie Rumsfeld, the kid, will apparently get a four-year extension to his ongoing campaign of murdering innoc...

Saw Michael Moore interviewed by John Dean as part of a special Writer's Bloc program at the Wadsworth Theater last night. If I was a...

Great column by my nearly-almost-employer Arianna Huffington. You remember Arianna, surely? She's the nearly-almost-Republican candidat...

Hate to bring down the fun-loving atmosphere here at The Inertia, but I wanted to link to this captivating, extremely well-written account o...

What is going on at the University of Pennsylvania? Yesterday, I ran an article about how there's a restaurant set up just to provide th...

It's official. Hollywood will finally tell the remarkable true story of everyone's favorite American, your President and mine, G. D...

Alabama, already leading the nation in illiteracy, infant mortality and moonshine-production, can now proudly boast that it's the on...

The University of Pennsylvania this week plays host to the first-ever cereal-only restaurant . It's called Cereality. Har! This i...

I missed Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow when it was first out in theaters. I was supposed to go see it at the Mann Chinese with my f...

I don't mean to blow it for you, but one of my personal heroes, baby-faced Mormon Ken Jennings, apparently loses his long-standing Jeopa...

This is a screen capture from a new video game called "JFK Reloaded," where you re-enact the assassination of JFK. Salon has a...

I did a stupid thing. I told my parents about the Inertia thing. And now they're checking it constantly. I'm sure they're rea...

will be coming as soon as I get out to see some freakin' movies. I'm looking at checking out Very Long Engagement or Alexander . ...

Some interesting facts about John Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General, compliments of Atrios' excellent blog : Number of U.S. t...

Amazingly, it isn't mine.

This blog's supposed to be about "Los Angeles," whatever that means. I kind of wrote that little "About this Blog" t...

I recently submitted an application to review CD's for Pitchfork , the very cool indie-rock website linked over on the right column of t...