Buy Or Don’t Buy

How does a television show get a cult following?
1. It’s good and usually has a strange sense of humor
2. It gets canceled.
So it’s awesome that 2 of my favorite shows are (rumored) to be made into motion pictures!! What are they?
1. Arrested Development
2. Veronica Mars
Let’s start with Arrested Development.
If you haven’t seen the show, then [...]

Critics pounded on the movie and parents did too. The Golden Compass was meant to launch a string of new book-to-movie fantasy flicks in the same vain as Potter and Narnia but the end result was just plain stinky. Why, though?
After watching the Golden Compass, the most memorable things are bloody bear brawl and a [...]

Selling more tickets than you actually have available is common practice for the airline industry, because usually not everybody shows up. (Although I was thisclose to being stranded alone in Amsterdam one day last March because for once, everybody did.) It kind of sucks, but sometimes you can get a free upgrade to [...]

Chief Justice John Roberts only has one job: administering the oath of office to an incoming President. (Well, that and determining that a state must notify a homeowner before selling his property to satisfy unpaid taxes.) And today, he did it wrong:

All I know is, Stephen Breyer wouldn’t have messed up like that.
[Hattip: TPM]

Yeah, I’m sure he’s a great guy. Yeah, I was endeared by the Oliver Stone biopic movie ‘W’. But remember way back in like 2003 when most of the civilized world wanted this man’s head on a platter? Sure, five or six years is enough to chill some people out. Forgiveness [...]

Time Warner emailed me today to say that New York is going completely digital; all TVs are switching from analog to digital on February 17th, which means people will have to buy a bloody converter for their antennae to work.

On February 17th, memories of my brother and I bonding over spreading tin foil over our [...]

Sometimes I think things just happen to amuse me. For example, Joaquin Phoenix.
We all remember how he quit acting. His reasoning was to pursue a music career. Amusement factor: a low 4/10. What was this music career going to be? Would it be like Johnny Depp and focus on an instrument? Or maybe be more [...]

I’m secure in myself and in women that we (yes, we) are just as smart and just as capable as men. So jokes inferring that we aren’t, are funny. And they should be!
In the same way fat jokes are only offensive to fat people and LOLCATS are passe, “women are stupid” jokes should be okay. [...]

Let’s say you want to celebrate the inauguration. Let’s say you want to do it by purchasing a large cardboard cutout of Barack Obama, preferably one where he’s smiling and looking agreeable. That way you can imagine he’s laughing at one of your jokes, or appointing you Commerce Secretary or inviting you to play touch [...]