In honor of my Birthday today, I am giving up MLK's cornerstone speech, given just over four years prior to his assassination... On my birthday.... albeit three years before my actual day of birth, but whatever. For years and years and years I did not have any idea that I shared this day in history. And then U2 came along and ruined it ( Read more... )

In many dog-eating cultures it is said that if you torture the animal before you kill it and eat it that it tastes better, more succulent. It is as though the fear, pain and suffering release enough endorphins or other suitable brain chemical into the flesh as extra seasoning. Or why people taste so good after a good plane crash strands them in ( Read more... )

Christ on a pogo stick, this is HI-LAR-ious!

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Jesus Jumpin' Christ on a pogo-stick, I am fucking tired.

Ingredients for feeling like you are Alex from A Clockwork Orange in the experimental chair with your eyes clamped open while all the horrors of the world flash in front of you ( Read more... )

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After all the hype surrounding The Dark Knight leading in to the Oscar announcements yesterday, there was a strong desire by all those fanboy geeks out there to see this superheroic franchise sequel get a nom for Best Picture. We all knew Heath Ledger was going to get the Best Supporting Actor nod, that's a given. Premature death has a way of ( Read more... )

Now that all this inaugural crap is done and we can all get on to REALLY going full tilt on the whole cult of personality surrounding Barack Hussein Obama, I have one observation that has been nagging me since he clinched the nomination and then the election ( Read more... )

Oprah's Book Club (OBC) is a ubiquitous entity that elevates what, by many standards, are average and mediocre texts to lofty heights and the tops of bestseller lists ( Read more... )

Ashford & Simpson's 'Solid As Barack', a cringe-inducing aural treat that really nails home the entire cult of personality that surrounds our new President and gives me the cold sweats at night that we aren't headed for some weirdly American form of fascism that the 'liberal left' can finally get behind.

Seriously, though... this song is awful.

Animal House is pretty much always my first impression when I think of college. It is completely misguided, totally false, and wholeheartedly baseless when it comes to reality. My first impression, that is. College is a much more complicated beast ( Read more... )