PROLOGUE: As faithful readers will recall, I didn't post anything to the blog today because I spent the entire day in Devore, California...

How many members of George Bush's immediate family have had run-ins with the law because of drug and alcohol-related crimes? A lot. Pr...

Blogging will be light and infrequent for the next few days, I'm afraid. Once next week starts, though, I promise to have tons of exciti...

As many of you know, I studied as an undergrad at UCLA. It's a major athletics school, which was unfortunate for me, because in addition...

I'm currently writing a list of my Top 100 Favorite Directors of All-Time. It's a lot of work, compounded by the fact that I lost 1...

A Chinese cosmetics company, currently touting its wares in Europe, apparently makes its make-up using the skin of dead Chinese prisoners . ...

Here's a real photo from Reuters that I promise I haven't retouched in any way: Yes, that's the hand of Dubya, scripting a lett...

We're going to get a lot of complaints about this title at the store, I can just feel it. Not because it's a bad movie. Quite the co...

Yesterday, I was watching something on Fox (I don't even remember what...but most likely a reality show) when a commercial came on for t...

I was once a contestant on "Win Ben Stein's Money." It was a lot of fun, even though I didn't get to tape the show on the ...

I was debating whether or not to review this new set from Palm Pictures, a retrospective of videos, commercials, short films and documentari...

Previously, in this post, I discussed seeing a homeless woman near the store where I work this morning, who told me, and I quote: "Ther...

While walking from my car to the video store this morning, a homeless woman said the following thing to me: "There's a mannequin on...

TV on the Radio, those most excellent indie rockers of Brooklyn, NY, have released a free downloadable new song on the Touch and Go website...

Salon has put together a really terrific collection of clips , demonstrating how the White House disseminates "talking points" to ...

I've started getting these obnoxious spam "comments" here on the blog. It's just some random message followed by a link t...