January 2009
86 posts
December 2008
83 posts
Bleed me dry
Remember that kid in grade school who always seemed to have egregiously chapped lips, and if you were really honest with yourself you kinda wanted to sneak up on him (which would have been difficult given the frontal nature of the proposed assault) and just tear that fucking flap of dead skin off his stupid mouth? Remember that kid?
I just looked in the mirror and I was apparently that kid for...
I’m embarrassed to admit this cover of...
NoFlix: 23 great movies not available on region-1... →
4. Los Angeles Plays Itself Technically speaking, you can watch Los Angeles Plays Itself on DVD—if you happen to be taking a class with director Thom Andersen, or you’re a personal friend of his, or you’re lucky enough to attend one of its rare academic screenings. Otherwise, you’re out of luck, and that’s nothing short of tragic. An epic, far-reaching treatise on how the capital of moviemaking...
Let the Right Guard in
M: I have a box of Whitman's Samplers that I'm going to get lost in.
R: Gross.
M: Yes, very.
R: They sell those next to deodorant at the drugstore.
M: I'm pretty sure my aunt got them at the drugstore. This toffee one tastes like Right Guard.
The afternoon after
An actor you quasi-recognize from some beer commercial eating Panda Express at the Beverly Center food court, an American Eagle Outfitters shopping bag his solitary companion: as December 26th as it gets.
My Year Of Flops: Floppiest Flop Case File # 126:... →
…we can now focus on the Case File at hand, a notorious animated endeavor named Delgo whose spectacular commercial failure is rapidly becoming the stuff of pop-culture legend. Failed films are a dime a dozen but Delgo is perhaps the floppiest flop ever to saunter floppily into flopsville and become Dean of Failure at Flopsville State University.
I think if I hadn’t been so busy in recent...
Ingenue
J: I love Zooey Deschanel's crooked little almost-smile.
R: Yeah, some dude slapped her pretty hard.
Surprising suck-cess for myNetworkTV →
For the past three weeks, the upstart myNetworkTV has accomplished something that would have been considered unthinkable just two years ago. The network, quickly cobbled together by a group of Fox-owned local stations after the 2006 merger of the WB and UPN into the new CW left abandoned stations with nothing to put on the air, has averaged more prime-time viewers than the CW.
That is...
“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know...”
– I will always be a sucker for that kind of reasoning.
Jeremy Piven Quits Broadway, "Extreme Mercury... →
Beyond the Wait. What. Really? What? of this:
Colker tells ET that Jeremy has been an avid sushi eater for many years, regularly eating sushi twice in one day. He notes that Jeremy has also taken certain Chinese herbs, and that, in combination with the frequent sushi consumption, could have led to these elevated mercury levels. He informs us that a test revealed that Jeremy had the highest level...
The Cougar From Another Future
1st Lady of Star Trek, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Dies:
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who was involved with Star Trek since the beginning died of leukemia early this morning in her Bel Air home. “Even before she married Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969, she was integral to Star Trek,” Marc Bernardin reminisced at EW’s PopWatch blog. “She was the original first...
“I was the oldest granddaughter. Everyone was so excited that I was born, they...”
– Previously undisclosed passages from Anne Frank’s diary? Close. It’s Paris Hilton in the current Esquire. Also, what’s up with her grandmother comparing her to “blonde icons” who met notoriously bad ends?
Want to buy a space shuttle? It'll cost you $42... →
Looking forward to the day Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg provide me with the opportunity to eat really overpriced chicken fingers in a repurposed shuttle-restaurant (presumably called RISE! or LIFTOFF! or—pun forbid—LAUNCH!) in Century City/Las Vegas/Dubai. The dessert menu will feature a selection of glacées personally dehydrated and vacuum-sealed by Wolfgang Puck in his own soul hole.
Toilet-Seat Trauma →
An article about toilet seats hurting your wiener. [thanks, m]
Ray Liotta Will Fart In Your General Direction →
He’s clearly auditioning to play himself on next season’s Entourage.
Sarcasm Used In Dementia Detection In Australia →
Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to research published on Friday. Researchers at the University of New South Wales found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic.
Aw, fuck. All this time I thought...