Archives for April 2011
Weird Al’s Lady Gaga song parody won’t be on his next album (but you can hear it here)
Backstory. I will go to my grave convinced that [Read more...]
Oh, no: Dilbert creator exposed as sockpuppet espousing his own ‘genius’ on web forums
Now I feel stupid about recommending his WSJ op-ed from last week. [Read more...]
Duke Lacrosse Accuser Crystal Mangum Charged With First-Degree Murder
Did Stanley Kubrick ever see this photo?
‘London is no longer an English city,’ says notorious rightwing racist… John Cleese (updated)
When will my critics finally accept that I always turn out to be right about everything? Ed West ponders John Cleese's "shocking" "controversial" statement: In … [Read more...]
Alternative headline: Kevin Smith had to beg his beta male fanboys to watch his anti-Christian movie
Some folks are hailing this as a triumph of marketing acumen. Smells more like desperation. God, I [Read more...]
Everything old is old again: Lynn Crosbie reviews ‘Scream 4’
Lynn Crosbie writes: I take exception to this film being deemed the first example of historiographic metafiction, to use postmodernist maven’s Linda … [Read more...]
Life imitates American International Pictures
So? Now they're cursed, right? Like in Poltergeist. What are you Indians always bitching about? See? … [Read more...]
Interesting take on Beck vs the bloggers
As someone whose stuff is "borrowed" semi-regularly by mainstream media outlets without attribution, I tend to side with the bloggers on this one (while admitting that I don't know the whole story.) Trevor Loudon … [Read more...]
Raise the retirement age to 75, starting tomorrow
People are living too long, and expect to be able to do so at my expense. There, I said it. You were just thinking it. Meanwhile, Tom Blumer … [Read more...]
My review of Sun News, over at David Horowitz’s NewsReal blog
I haven't posted at NewsReal for a long time -- too busy with "real" copywriting stuff -- but they asked me to put together something about Sun News,[Read more...]