From The Archives: G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (2009).

So the trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation just hit the internet.  If you haven’t seen it yet, please visit my friends at Daily Grindhouse and watch it here. In case you’re wondering if I had any thoughts about the previous G.I. Joe movie, it turns out that I had somewhere around twenty.  Which is arguably [...]

Cult Classics: HOUSE (1977).

Hausu (aka House, from 1977) is without a doubt, one of the weirdest fucking movies I’ve ever seen, and goddamn it but that really must be saying something.  It’s strange that standing in the face of this thing has reduced me to profanity, when it’s most certainly the most innocent ultra-violent horror movie that could [...]

My Top Five Bob Dylan Songs.

For Bob Dylan’s seventieth birthday this week, Rolling Stone put out a list of the 70 Greatest Dylan Songs.  I’m no authority, so I’m not about to quibble with the ordering.  In fact, it says plenty about the uncanny depth of this essential artist’s discography that he has so many more than 70 great songs.  (So many [...]

What I Watched: 12.19.2010.

Yes, again. And I still like it. So there. Also: Yikes!

Six Degrees Of Bill Murray’s Birthday.

What does that title mean?  Well, everyone knows that Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon game, right?  Pretty played-out, I know.  But let’s kick it up to a whole new layer of atmosphere:   Let’s apply it to the calendar.  Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon is oriented around the idea that you can somehow connect anyone in [...]

The Craziest Spam E-Mail Of, Well, The Day.

  Trying to figure this one out has been one of the highlights of the morning.  (Can you tell I’m stuck killing time at the moment?) —————————————————————————————— Date:  Friday, May 28th, 2010 Subject:  Let’s meet this weekend.. From:   [     ] Good day, I’m [     ], I was born deaf 30years ago, I live alone, I [...]

This Person Looks Like That Person.

  I started a new mini-column, spotlighting persons of note who bear noticeable resemblances to other persons of note. If you know me, you know I do this all the time in conversation, to a surely maddening degree.  But in measured doses, it can be fun.  People like fun. Here are the first five entries [...]