Just as I did last year and the year before, I'd like to offer up a challenge in honour of the holiday for anyone reading this ( Read more... )

Why is Tim Burton hailed as such a visionary director?

I mean, all he does is make adaptations.

Granted, he's turned to a lot of different source material for his oeuvre--in the course of his career, he's directed feature films based on a sketch comedy character, a comic book character, a biography, a series of trading cards, a short story, an ( Read more... )

If you haven't already, you should definitely check out "The Ballad of G.I. Joe," written by Daniel Strange & Kevin Umbricht and featuring an all-star cast, including a brief but welcome appearance by Alan Tudyk:


The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde
Isn't it sad that The Rise of Cobra has far less appeal for me than this does, especially where ( Read more... )

Before I completely neglect to mention it, Zack Morris made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week to update us all on what he's been up to since his days at Bayside:


I was surprised at the attention to continuity in his interview, referencing everything from Zack's (impossible) SAT score to his Wedding in Las Vegas--even ( Read more... )

When I got home last night, I had exactly one message on my answering machine. The male voice was unidentified. Here it is, in its entirety:Don't drink, don't smoke...
[muffled response]
Yeah, no, she wants to but she will hate it. Close, close up. If she had one shot, I guarantee you, half of it and her head would be going. I'm bugging you, ( Read more... )

I couldn't begin the holiday without first deferring to a trio of performers who truly understand its spirit:

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In honour of the day, I'll also offer up the same challenge I offered last year for anyone reading this ( Read more... )

As I continue my surprisingly difficult hunt for a copy of The Lonely Island's Incredibad, I keep going back to "I'm On a Boat," their utterly-ridiculous-but-all-too-accurate take on the seabound grandiosity in a lot of hip-hop videos:

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Even though the album includes a DVD with their other music videos, this one's not on it, so your best chance to ( Read more... )

I'd like to offer my sincere congratulations to Mr Alan Shore and Mr Dennis Crane on the happy occasion of their nuptials, joined together in a marriage ceremony performed by United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia in Nimmo Bay, British Columbia on December 8, 2008.

May the loving couple enjoy many years of wedded bliss.

Since I can't escape the Mary Sue extravaganza that is Twilight, I did the requisite search and found a decent Twilight Timeline to add to the timeline siteIt was nice to add something to the site again, given that I haven't really worked on it in the past few months--even though it was (apparently) mentioned recently in some sort of email ( Read more... )

Speaking of Kimberly and Scott, they (along with Kimberly's brother, Chris) launched Regator this year, and the site has just been nominated in the Social News category of Mashable's Open Web Awards, "the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology ( Read more... )