Oh goodie, Halloween is afoot! Time for my seasonal binge on schlocky horror celluloid. The After Dark Horrorfest and Showtime’s Masters of Horror special look particularly promising—the latter featuring a new hour-long flick by director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) about a small town engulfed by an unnamed sinister presence, with enormously frightening results.
But […]

Schadenfreude alert: Richard Dawkins’s foaming atheo-fundie rant, “The God Delusion,” is getting some less-than-glowing reviews from *gasp* prominent liberal intellectuals. The Wired treatment is the most surprising - reporter Gary Wolf spends a couple thousand words trying, really hard, to just give in and throw his lot in with Dawkins & Co, since he (like, […]

“He was making slurs about things that are most precious to us,” says our spy.

First Kim Hyun Jung, and now an apocalyptic pan-national fuck fest? What am I doing on my laptop here in this Amsterdam brothel? Me and my libido are going to South Korea!
Ever since Kim Jong Il pulled his little underground nuclear no-no earlier this month, condoms have been flying off South Korean quickie mart […]

Do you want to watch the World Series but find it difficult because you don’t give a rat’s ass who wins? Well, here’s some non-sporting incentive to pick sides: Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, who’s scheduled to start Game Four tonight, will appear in an ad to be televised during this evening’s contest urging voters to […]

I haven’t heard much about Bird Flu lately. Seems like everyone forgot about it once more pressing issues came up. But it’s out there, people, biding its time, just waiting for the right moment to kill you and your loved ones and the UPS man dead. DEAD!
Anyway, I’m glad at least SOMEONE hasn’t forgotten about […]

We kid, but this is pretty damn amazing. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert (and occasional reader/commenter of this blog - REPRAZENT!), lost his voice a year and a half ago to a strange neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia. His doc told him it was incurable. Adams said, “Eff y’all wack-ass bitchez.”

Just because no one […]

A couple of smug Park Slope yuppies whose male earning unit just came off a job in finance are asking folks on the interwebs to vote for where they should move next so they can settle down and start breeding. First town to net a million votes gets this pair of Sacs De Douche for […]

You thought all those skandies who live up north were a bunch of socialist do-gooders, didn’t you? Well now they’re killing endangered whales again, mostly because they’re tasty:

Iceland just broke a global moratorium on commercial whaling, killing an endangered fin whale for the first time since the 1980s, local media reported Sunday.

Three cheers for Iceland […]