The book about lost pop culture that I’m writing with my friend Brian Bellmont is still a year away from publication, but we’re hoping to build an audience for it, and hope you’ll forgive my…

So I saw the Oscar-nominated “An Education” today, and had to know more about the real story it was based on. Here is a great summary by the woman who was the real Jenny, Lynn Barber.She did not,…

A couple fell in love as young people, then were apart for 60 years, then reunited and married. And then he disappeared!Weird story, but this is the part that nearly broke me: “Fontelle’s second…

natashavc:

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Welcome to Wife Watch!, the only blog post that ranks the most powerful wives on this week’s episode of Big Love.
It’s time to climb into the clown car, because “Sins of the…

Kate Gosselin is releasing another book. Now, I know she needs money to raise those kids, but it’s pretty funny how she’s worried about what they’ll think about the “unconventional” way they were…

The story Burma VJ tells is fascinating, and shocking and enraging. As a movie, alas, it comes across as muffled, because…well, it's reporting from a closed country. Thanks to a…

You NEED a halter for your banana, you just don’t know it yet.

Uncertain Terribly Happy futuresIn about a month and a half, I won’t be able to update this Web site the way I have for the last five or six years.Blogger is shutting down its FTP service, which…

I can't get completely on board with the screenplay nom for An Education — it's speechy in spots, and occasionally feels as though it's waiting for the jokes to land.
Carey…

Let’s say — for the sake of argument — that your hobby is kidnapping and murdering children. And let’s also say that you are doing so in a big city where owning an…

Imogen Edwards-Jones: Hotel Babylon
David Cross: I Drink for a Reason
Pamela Ribon: Going in Circles (copyedits)
Margaret A. Salinger: Dream Catcher: A Memoir
Malcolm Gladwell: What the Dog Saw:…

U.S. soldier Joshua Tabor has been charged of child abuse after he reportedly waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her ABCs.I quit the world.

fuckingbookdeal:

[Tears! Even today, so many tears.]..

Sweet movie, but with both its feet planted on the correct side of the cutesy line.  The expected over-explanation of and/or moralizing about why Coraline wants out of the Other world never…

America’s Best Dance Crew (2/4)So I have finally remembered to catch a season of ABDC at the beginning. I’m in. Here’s the good news: awesomely entertaining dance crews, at least two of which I am…

I don’t really get (or care about) the video gamer connection here, but blackberry lime Slurpees sound pretty darn good. I wonder if Sonic has blackberry limeade?The Impulsive Buy also reviews…

Every time that I see baby eggplant in the grocery store, I feel compelled to buy them.  Every time. This isn’t such a bad thing, considering that the baby eggplant are my favorite variety…

juliasegal:

This was my fav commercial during this year’s Superbowl.

Candy Butchers, Kiss Alive II
Last night I saw Mike Viola, late of Candy Butchers, open for They Might Be Giants at Largo. (Yes, yes. I love TMBG. I also saw Pee Wee on stage on Friday. But today…

Facing two subtitled hours about an Italian politician I'd never heard of, merely for the sake of crossing a Best Makeup nominee off the list, I considered withdrawing from the Oscars 2010…

Oh Power Droid, you are a complicated being.