OK, can we please discuss the ridiculous hotness of Demian Bichir, the guy who plays Nancy Botwin's drug lord boyfriend on Weeds?


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This is a placeholder for the eventual post to come about how ridiculous it is to write a book that depends entirely on a convincing definition of "fascism" that ENTIRELY SKIPS OVER THE YEARS 1922-1943 IN ITALY UNDER MUSSOLINI. I mean, that's just STAGGERING. "Let's write a book about fascism but not mention what actually HAPPENED UNDER FASCIST ( Read more... )

Patrick Swayze is reportedly dying of pancreatic cancer. Now, given, the source is the National Enquirer, but if it's true this is really, really sad. He's only 55. (We have the same birthday...28 years apart, but whatever.) And pancreatic cancer is really not a fun way to go ( Read more... )

Wow. I ended up giving a lot of partial credit on this one, only somewhat arbitrarily.

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I like Lydia's movie meme. So I'm going to do it myself. 15 quotes from my favorite movies -- point for movie title, point for character, half a point if you know the actor but not the character's name. Go!1) And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you ( Read more... )

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have returned to the airwaves after nine weeks of strike-induced absence. Neither host wanted to go back on the air without their writers, but their contracts left them with little choice. I watched the first episodes back of both shows. As we were watching them, Segev said, "Do you support the writers ( Read more... )

David Cross defends his choice to star in Alvin and the Chipmunks:

I was too young to enjoy the original "Alvin and the Chipmunks" because I wasn't born yet. And I was too old to enjoy the later incarnation in the 80's, so it holds no precious memories for me to defile. If someone decided to re-make "Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang", (a movie I fucking ( Read more... )

Does it make me a bad person that I enjoyed watching the Aqua Teen movie more than pretty much any other movie I've seen this year?

(Answer: Yes. Yes, I think it does. But I'm a sucker for Bruce Campbell, star wipes, and "In the Air Tonight". So it's kinda made just for me.)

The five most perfect things created or performed by Jim Henson, in no particular order:

1. The Muppet Frog Prince. A lot of people may never have seen this, and it has yet to get a DVD release. I had the album...in fact, I think we had TWO copies of the album, for some reason. It is one of three "Tales from Muppetland" that Henson did in the ( Read more... )

Segev and I started watching The Wire last night, after a number of years of me telling Ryan to piss off every time he raved about it. I had rented the first disk when I worked at Kim's, watched the first scene, and thought it was totally overwrought and didn't bother to watch any further. But after hearing the reviews of season 4, I really, ( Read more... )