What a year it has been! 21 madcap hours, that's for damn certain. I started 2005 at a house party in Campbell, California, a Silico...

Just hanging out this afternoon with friends here on California's beautiful Central Coast, where it has been raining just about non-stop...

You guys all know Greg Raymer, 2004 World Series of Poker Champion? 300 pound collector of fossils and wearer of silly dinosaur eyeglasses ...

I just wrote an e-mail to a friend of mine at Universal about robots, and made a strange observation. The idea of robots attacking large ci...

More people are picking up on my "why do we only give a shit about tragedy that affects white people" meme from the other day. Ok...

I first saw Tenacious D open for Pearl Jam at the Forum during my collegiate years. I'm not 100% certain, but I would guesstimate the y...

Don't forget to wear flowers...Oh, wait, now I've got that damn hippie song in my head...Better put on "The Safety Dance."...

Wingnuts, for those of you who don't check other leftist blogosphere locations, are right-wing assholes whose brand of rhetoric is parti...

Have you ever read any of the "Left Behind" series? You have? What the hell are you doing on my blog? You'd probably be mor...

Can you believe this didn't even make the Yahoo front page? I guess 50,000 or so Asians die and suddenly the American intellectuals ce...

Uh oh. The Bush Administration came out today and accused the Syrian government of aiding the Iraqi insurgents. And if you're a Middle ...

Dave Barry has just published his delightful annual wrap-up of major events . Barry is one of those guys who was very important to the early...

Yahoo tells me that the Greatest Comedian of All Time, Mr. George Carlin, has entered a drug and alcohol treatment program for what he desc...

I've never been the biggest Wizard of Oz fan, and the last few Muppet movies haven't been terribly spectacular, but I couldn...

Like everyone else in the world, I've been following the news of this unfathomable disaster in South Asia. A 9.0 earthquake? Unthinka...

UPDATE: I originally published my Best of 2004 list in late December. This was totally stupid, because there were a whole lot of movies I h...

Most movies are mediocre. Not good or bad. They just are . Someone wrote a story and someone else filmed it. It's the rare movie that...

Watched the new Marty Scorsese film with an entirely rude audience in my hometown of Irvine, California on Christmas Day. Usually, Christmas...

Sorry I've been remiss in updating for you, Inertia-sters, but, you know, 'tis the season and all that shite. Spend Christmas Eve...

Pitchfork published its annual Top 50 Albums of the Year today. Lots of good stuff on there. In fact, 6 of my Top 10 of the year list is in...