The Germans Have Been Forgiven for WWII. It’s been a long time since the Germans were not these awesome and nattily dressed members of the human race that we as Americans like to high-five and cuddle with. But there were dark times. Not the kind of days we like to discuss unless we want to … Continue reading
Why We Can’t Trust Video. Recently video was recorded that captured the wobbly arrival of the scariest killer gnome South America has ever known. My initial response was one of glee. I’d always known that creepy deathgnomes existed but without photographic evidence I was always forced to err on the side of caution. The same … Continue reading
I really don’t understand the purpose of shills. According to Wikipedia, a shill is described as an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. As a poster on the Chud message boards for the past … Continue reading
While no detail has been left behind in the mainstream press’ prurient “probing” into L’Affair Spitzer, what’s not known is that there was another breathless and no less illicit tryst going on in the same town at the same time. Greg Palast reports: While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in … Continue reading
I’ve been neck deep in Smallville for its entire seven year run…for good or bad. I’ve covered four of the box sets in reviews and I’ve stuck with the show through the 47,964 freak-of-the-week episodes, through the torturous Clark / Lana / Lex triangle, through the 2,659 Lex-finding-Clark’s-secret-only- to-conveniently-forget-everything- deus-ex endings, through the 48 times … Continue reading
Yesterday I was hanging out with the coolest woman I know and I was confessing to her a weakness in my character that I had confessed to you, Faithful Readers, earlier this week in my blog. And she said, ‘Yeah, I know, I read your blog.’ She’s probably reading this right now. Which is flattering! … Continue reading
When Godzilla Went Homo. We saw the signs. Toho’s legendary radioactive reptile had always been a little light in his rubbery prehistoric footies and in many instances is actually considered AT BEST an asexual being and sometimes an all-out chick dinosaur! Godzilla’s a babe. Don’t forget that. A babe with a little Japanese man sweating … Continue reading
Identity theft is a big story these days. Someone goes an a spending spree in your name to the tune of thousands of dollars; your credit rating gets trashed; you’re stuck with hefty bills you don’t feel responsible for, yet there they are, accruing interest like a vampire at a blood bank. From The Economist: … Continue reading
Mike Patton Achieves Sainthood. As if I needed to love Mike Patton more after his work with Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Bob Ostertag, Dan the Automator, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Melvins, Sepultura, Lovage, Peeping Tom, General Patton & the X-Ecutioners, and many others as he’s unloaded two barrels of greatness on … Continue reading
… … wherein I cast runes and read chicken guts to tell you what will happen in October… Let’s see now… Getting something… From Esquire: Just as [William] Fallon took over Centcom last spring, the White House was putting itself on a war footing with Iran. Almost instantly, Fallon began to calmly push back against … Continue reading