I’m not quite sure about this new True Blood series on HBO. The characters introduced in the first episode were often cartoonish and silly, and the effort to be quirky threatened to sink the whole effort. But by the end, the Anna Paquin character — who is not a vampire but can hear what people …
Hold on to your birth control, ladies! John McCain has chosen experience maven Sarah Palin as his running mate! The Alaska Governor, formerly a beauty queen and the mayor of a suburb of Anchorage, has been in office for a whopping two years. She likes Jesus, or at least the version of Jesus that doesn’t …
(…*To Inspire You To Hide Under Your Bed Until Jan. 21, 2009) This must-read report just in from the New Yorker‘s “This Would Be Funny If It Wasn’t So Fucking Scary” Department: “Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush administration steps up its secret moves against Iran” by the ever-vigilant Seymour Hersh. Hersch writes: Late last year, …
First the gays… and now this! Can it really be the 25th anniversary of this nightmare fuel? Seems like just yesterday I was saying “Get that thing away from me.” Fans and collectors will meet again today at the RI Convention Center for the My Little Pony Convention. the horror…. the horror
Who doesn’t remember faking a sick day from school? Somehow, I think my Mom always knew, but she let me stay home anyway. Now, though, if your kid is faking sick, you can give him/her a dose of Obecalp (get it?) and push ’em out the door to school. Obecalp is a chery-flavored miracle pill …
I was never as scared of clowns as my little sister was — I have this especially vivid memory of Fourth of July in Rockville, MD circa 1987. I was a mumbler even then, and shocked that the fireworks illuminated the clouds in the night sky. “You can see the clouds! You can see the …
Bedtime for Bozo — but nowhere near the sick kiddies, please Read More »