I've developed a habit of writing letters to the San Francisco Chronicle. I've never been to San Francisco, but I read the paper's columnists online religiously, especially Mick LaSalle and Neva Chonin, and I've seen both "Dirty Harry" and "The Times of Harvey Milk," so it just seemed the thing to do. Mr. LaSalle printed my "Superman Returns" ( Read more... )

Sometimes my job is cool. Like today.

We ran an AP story about how neanderthals may have been around 2,000 years longer than previously thought. But what of the headline? There's only one choice, and you know what it was.


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Dear Christ! Alice Donut is still making records!

This raises many questions (and I don't necessarily want the answers to these, I'm just puttin' it out there):

1. Why?
2. Is Alternative Tentacles still a record label? 
3. What happened to Mojo Nixon; and, if found, can we send the Donut to whatever hell he has wrought?
5. Did Jello Biafra raise the ( Read more... )

The bigger tragedy: Steve Irwin being killed by a sea monster or Robert Christgau being pink-slipped by the Village Voice.

YOU make the call.

For funniest fucking movie poster of all time.
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"Brick" may well be the best movie I saw all year. Like a lot of people, probably, I assumed it would just be a gimmick-fueled romp through the mind of yet another Belle & Sebastien fan armed with a fuzzy sweater, an iMac and a half-completed stint at film school. But the whole Sam Spade Takes Algebra conceit managed to work, somehow, and the fact ( Read more... )

Look, everyone! Mick LaSalle loves me!

This is very long. You have been warned.

I realized today that I am the same age as MTV. This means that I will always be the same age as MTV, and you can be assured that MTV will always be around in some form or another, so long after I expire there will still be talk of the Channel That Wouldn’t Die and you can think of me. I can’t claim it got ( Read more... )

So just today I decided to finally brave the rites of manhood and spend an exorbitant amount of money on some CDs. Squeeze's "Six Of One" box set, that is - their first six albums with all sorts of accompanying hoopla. I won't divulge the precise number, but going by Gemm and Amazon I scored an excellent deal because this motherfucker is brutally ( Read more... )

I rarely do these kinds of posts, but ( Read more... )