Buy Or Don’t Buy

In the interest of full-disclosure, I was recently laid off as an editor/blogger at a start-up. On one very surreal Friday the boss-fellow called a meeting and told the majority of the staff (yours truly included) that due to the economic apocalypse, our time at the company was over.
And after a resume-revamping weekend (where it [...]

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 [...]

It’s that time of the year when the weather is dropping and all the eligible boys and girls are disappearing, or so it seems…
Hibermating*, or mating for the sake of hibernation, is the civilized world’s equivalent of cavemen bonking women over the head with a club and dragging them to their caves for the long [...]

Rather than holding the pickles, Burger King finds itself being asked to hold “the world’s purest taste test” as criticism mounts for its most recent advertising campaign, in which the burger maker is conducting an epic search for the Whopper ® Virgins of the world in hopes of finding an unbiased answer to that age [...]

Apparently there is a need in the world for a new Star Trek movie. I understand that there are Trekkies, and people who enjoy the show or one of its 10 million spin offs. What I don’t understand is this new movie.
From what I understand it will be the original characters (Spock, Kirk, Darth Vader, [...]

I’m tired of hearing about the economic bailout of banks, credit cards, homeowners, car companies, etc. If people and companies want to live beyond their means, they should learn to accept the consequences. If you buy on credit, you better be able to afford the payments. If your house isn’t worth what you paid for [...]

Some time ago, around the time of the release of Eminem’s album The Eminem Show (2002), I decided that he was the only rapper with the chops to tell the story of Enron. That is, Eminem would portray the rise and fall of the Fortune 500 energy-trading behemoth in an epic, 3-disc concept album entitled [...]

“Can I get one ticket for the 3:15 Pineapple Express, please.”
That’s right folks, just one ticket. No date, no friends, no relatives just me… and about two hundred anonymous people.
Sitting through Pineapple Express by myself wasn’t my first solo-movie going experience, nor was it even the first time I realized that I enjoy venturing to [...]

The sociopathic nihilist values neither human lives nor any of the constructions that society has to offer him. (Notably, this insane person is usually a “him” and not a “her”). From Psycho to Hannibal Lecter to Heath Ledger’s latest portrayal of The Joker, these uninstitutionalized nuts have been trying to find their place in Hollywood [...]