Tuesday, June 30, 2009

MMA, Hawaiian style

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Remember that superb line in Napoleon Dynamite when his cousin Kip says with a straight face, "Besides, we both know I'm training t...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

President Obama is not the Marlboro Man

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circa 1980 (photo by Lisa Jack ) "Was it really wise to try to arrest the economy's free fall, bring peace to the Middle East, fix ...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Sri Lankan astrologer arrested for his prediction!

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The dangerous subversive himself, Chandrasiri Bandara Now this is a story you don't see very often, at least not outside of the Weekly W...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Sun: a rarity in New England this summer

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Lurking around Newport on call for freelance yacht crew gigs, I've been spending time in Rhode Island and on Cape Cod, both awesome plac...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The dead whale in Little Compton

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You know you're sick of being stuck indoors on the endless rainy days when going to check out a whale carcass seems like a decent way to...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

"The Hangover" made me cry

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I have not laughed this hard in a very long time. I was crying laughing. Here's the dirty trailer they can't show on TV.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Nurse Jackie: Sharper than a new scalpel

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I'm bummed I no longer have Showtime, given the greatness of "Weeds" and "The Tudors," but now that they're putt...

File under "Who gives a shit?"

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I am scrolling through the Google news headlines just now and I cannot believe what I see. There are 336 separate articles about this "...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Obama orders Stephen Colbert's head to be shaved

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Wearing a custom-made Brooks Brothers camouflage suit, Stephen Colbert began his weeklong broadcast from Baghdad yesterday in a show of supp...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Cheap employers suck

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Have you ever worked at a job where the more hours you work, the less you get paid? Get this story. I started working at a huge estate sever...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Goodbye, Bill

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Maui vog

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Maui's down there. Somewhere. I got an email yesterday from a Maui friend. They write: We've been having a terrible problem from vog...
Friday, May 29, 2009

"I do not like the cone of shame" says Dug

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Today was my day off, so I went to the movie theater to see what was playing. I had already seen everything except for two, and I wasn't...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Scipps National Spelling Bee's gastronomic words

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I am watching the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and wow, talk about channeling my inner geek. I am so entranced with this show I cann...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Terminator Salvation's nude Arnold body double scene

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Good lord, what a letdown. If you are looking for a way to kill some time and need an excuse to go out for movie popcorn, then fine. It'...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Maureen Dowd's plagiarism excuse

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Harvard Crimson/Alexandra P. Kass You'd think a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer could come up with something better than the PR equivalent...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Big Bang Theory's tribute to Leonard Nimoy

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Seeing Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek made me wonder how all the Trekkies are handling their flames of geek passion seeing him in action again. ...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Star Trek: a gathering of actors from great TV and films

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Mitch Yost has gotten back in the game. The new Star Trek is so good! I love the fact that they cast Bruce Greenwood as Captain Christopher ...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

The stuck-in-the-dungeon riddle

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Okay, smarty pants. You are stuck in a dungeon with two doors. One leads to freedom, the other to death. You may ask just one single questio...
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