When does an apartment building slip into slum-dom? What is the line that must be crossed to go from low-income housing to fucked up demi-g...

IMDB has a truly hilarious interview excerpt with Jennifer Garner, of Alias and Elektra fame. Ms. Garner is tired of the spotlight, and wa...

Juan Cole has called out Jonah Goldberg . It's pretty awesome. But let me back up for those of you not versed in the blogsophere. Ju...

Why won't the producers of the James Bond series take a fucking chance for once? I think we can all agree that, since Brosnan first appe...

Thanks to FARK for this interesting little website . The Icelandic Tourism Board has set up a page of fun facts about their tiny island nat...

Just got back from a celebratory barbecue in beautiful suburban Hawthorne, California. My friend Jake has just left his job at engineering ...

Don Siegel is best known as the director of Dirty Harry , but he actually had a long and varied directorial career. Also notable is his clas...

I had to look this up. In England, around the turn of the century, a cartoonist named David Low created a famous character named Colonel Bli...

I'm an idiot. I totally promised you guys several reviews that I never got around to writing. So, here's a quick recap of entertai...

Yahoo has an article today about a Marine Corps commandant who had to discipline a senior subordinate for making the above comment. I th...

What Union was the President talking about last night? Because it sure didn't sound like he was discussing the state of American intere...

There are two notable film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers." One was made for television in 1964 b...

A funny Sports Illustrated story by way of good old reliable FARK . What would I do without FARK in seeking out goofball links for my blog...

A woman in Australia has been selling fictional Duff beer on E-Bay . Did you catch that? People were paying a woman actual money on the ...

This link has apparently been making the rounds on the blogosphere. I'm also alerted that the woman who runs this website has been thre...

I've been involved for several months now on an e-mail discussion thread. It's a few guys who work at E! Entertainment Television, ...

Laser Blazer is proud to present a signing event with the legendary Oscar-winning special effects artist. He will be appearing at Laser Bla...

This is so stupid . You've heard of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company? They advertise on Howard Stern all the time. It's a company, ...

I have heretofore heard absolutely nothing about a movie called Mirrormask , which premiered earlier this week at the Sundance Film Festival...

I love Groundhog Day . I think it's one of the best comedies of our times, and features perhaps the best performance from Bill Murray. ...