The Catholic Church Finally Helps Art

The Vatican has banned the makers of the movie, “Angels & Demons,” from filming on its grounds. The Church constituted the ban because the film, and the book it is based on, is “an offence against God.” The book is written by Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code,” and the Pope [...]

Spoiler Warning: ‘Iron Man’ is Complete Shit

Having a short term memory of most other super hero movies and being a fan of the Iron Man comic when I was a kid, I saw the movie on opening night. That was a mistake, not just seeing it on opening night, seeing the movie at all was a mistake.
I do [...]

Top 40 Songs of My Generation: Rock of the 1990s

40. The Way – Fastball, 1998
39. I’ll Be – Edwin McCain, 1998
38. If You Could Only See – Tonic, 1997
37. How It’s Going to Be – Third Eye Blind, 1999
36. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something, 1996
35. Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry, 1997
34. Black Balloon – Goo Goo Dolls, 1999
33. Slide – Goo [...]

Oh, Lindsey…

Lindsey Lohan cut off the paparazzi by posing completly nude for New York Magazine. That’s right, naked. As in not wearing any clothes. Not much news here, just some good pictures.
Here’s the site: http://media.nymag.com/fashion/08/spring/44247/
Click on the “Slideshow” button.

Guitar Hero and the Like

As of late, there have been some official and unofficial Guitar Hero announcements from Activision. The first is that there will be four GH games being released this year. They did not mention if one was Guitar Hero IV, but they did say that the first will be called “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” and [...]

Hitler was an Asshole: Part II

We all know what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews and other European minorities in the Holocaust, but what he did to Leningrad for the infamous 831 days between September 8, 1941 and January 27, 1944 solidified his place in hell.
Known as the Siege of Leningrad, Hitler’s armies created a blockade around the city formally [...]

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan the Terrile was one of the, well, most terrible czars imperial Russia had ever seen. There are many stories about his brutalness towards the serfdom, but one of his most brutal acts and the one that probably wished the most that he could take back was the killing of his eldest son, also [...]

Score One for Gianormous Entertainment Corporations

File sharing has been a much debated topic since its inception and it teeters on the fence between legal and illegal. Record and film companies report losing millions of dollars to the technology, while “downloaders” use the excuse that they are sampling the music and movies or the more believable excuse that they only [...]

Space Elevator

Here’s an abstract from a patent held by Lockheed Martin:
“A Space Elevator for transporting a payload from one point to another in outer space, includes a first structure, located at a first relatively fixed, non-zero orbital distance from the surface of the earth, for receiving payloads, a second structure, located at a second relatively fixed [...]

Puttin’ on the Ritz

Peter Boyle died yesterday.
Everyone needs to watch “Young Frankenstein” sometime in the next week.
And “The Candidate”. That means that I will need my copy back, Kurt.

Flags of Our Fathers Review

It’s February 19, 1945, your regiment’s mission is to take the 550 foot tall Mount Suribachi on the lonely Pacific island of Iwo Jima. The black sand and barren landscape add to the loneliness of the tiny island. Your superiors are not exactly sure where the enemy is, all you know is that [...]