Whatever happened to Cheri Oteri, anyway?

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(NOTE: This was the very last post to appear on my Livejournal before it got nuked – it was up for a grand total of perhaps four hours, so I feel perfectly justified in reproducing it here.) I’m not planning to do another thirty days of I Should Write The Legion any time soon, but […]

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…I give you sexual harassment happening on-air. Disgusting, yes, but all the moreso for the sheer nerve.

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One of the greats. Vaya con dios, Ringo.

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You know how you hear certain individuals complain, every so often, that “kids these days don’t care about history?” If more history books were like Warren Ellis’ and Raulo Caceres’ Crêcy, this would not be a problem. At all.

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Chocolate rain No verse, no bridge, always the refrain Chocolate rain Musical hooks bring you net dot fame Chocolate rain Irritating like a mustard stain Chocolate rain Repetition seals it in your brain Chocolate rain Every line, it has to rhyme with “rain” Chocolate rain Narrative build? That’s just kind of lame Chocolate rain Kimmel […]

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First tunesblogging on mightygodking.com, so it only seems fair to bring out a big gun: the first hit single by the Tragically Hip, “Blow At High Dough.” Ignore (or be enthralled by, depending on your sense of esthetics) the profoundly low production values and concentrate on the sheer awesomeness of the song, which contains some […]

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I don’t know what country this is from, although by the sound of it I would say somewhere in Eastern Europeastan. But regardless, I love it wholly and unconditionally. (Note that some things, like the tendency for filmmakers to believe that it’s okay for the guys to be schlubbos so long as the girls are […]

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Saw it pimped a few places, but David Rees’ magnificent smackdown of Michael Ignatieff’s ludicrously pompous and self-important op-ed in the New York Times Magazine simply cannot be pimped enough. Money shot: I was excited when I first saw this new essay: At last, Ignatieff was going to come clean about his super-duper-double-dipper errors. I […]

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No, seriously. I’m horribly impressed that Offended Fandom ™ has managed to get some attention in their newly adopted crusade against a pro-anorexia community (which apparently only managed to start offending them in the last two weeks – funny, how that goes). But stop. I’m serious. This is not me particularly giving a damn about […]

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China’s starting to publicly threaten the dumping of its American dollar reserves. (In other bad news from China, the Yangtze river dolphin is extinct.)

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A while back, Marvel printed Civil War #2, wherein Spider-Man revealed to the general public that he was Peter Parker. Almost exactly two years prior to this, in Daredevil #60: Therefore, whenever Marvel tells you “we planned this out years in advance” – by “years,” they mean “two.”

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I keep getting email about my banning and the subsequent fandom issues on Livejournal, so I figured I should probably address it all in one fell swoop.

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A Stanford University study shows that children are more likely to prefer the taste of a given food when it is packaged in a McDonald’s container – it didn’t matter if the food is McDonald’s food or not, as the kids universally said any food they were given with a golden-arches symbol on the package […]

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