Every so often, you read about someone who has decided to walk across the country to gain a better appreciation for the land and its residents. Usually, there’s a charity involved; more often than not, a video camera. That’s always made me wonder about the value of these walks. Not the charity part, the cameras. [...]
The deaths of Art Linkletter (May 26), Gary Coleman (May 28) and Dennis Hopper (May 29) once again resurrected the urban legend of how celebrities always die in groups of three. It’s been repeated so often that it becomes one of those things that everyone knows — like not to swim for an hour after [...]
It shouldn’t have come as any great surprise that “Lost” — a once-in-a-generation television series that was steeped in imagery and metaphor — ended its run Sunday night with a character named Christian Shepherd opening the doors to a multi-denominational church to let in a blinding white light. “Lost” fans being who they are, the [...]
It’s a big week in the Twitterverse. How many was that … 35? Dang it! Now we’re up to … what? … (side note: Do ellipses count as one character or three?) Anyway, as I was saying … Let’s start with the news that Twitter is donating its archives to the Library of Congress. Tweets [...]
Fingernails across a chalkboard. A steel fork clanging off a tooth. Waterboarding. A “very special episode” of “Blossom.” Lima Beans. All things that can make rational people resort to irrational, involuntary shakes, shivers and shouts. To that list we add the pop culture marriage of inexplicable titans: Miley Cyrus and Nicholas Sparks. uuuuurgharghyyiyigack The tween princess [...]
Sitting at an office desk, alone with his thoughts, the President of the United States writes a letter about an upcoming battle, one during which he knows that blood will be spilled. Suddenly, a would-be assassin appears and fires a pistol shot … which the president avoids with Matrix-like artistry. The gun useless, the assassin [...]
Reality television series have taken us everywhere — from divorce courts to matchmakers offices, weight-loss clinics to four-star restaurants, maternity wards full of crying children to the Jersey shore. But leave it to the French to boldly go where no Real Housewife has gone before. This week’s premiere of the reality show “Zone Xtreme” featured [...]
Warning: At the end of this blog entry, the much-talked about, soon-to-be much-debated ending to the newly released film “Remember Me” will be revealed. Honest, I’m not kidding. So, if you’re one of those folks who a) were planning to see “Remember Me,” or b) hate having movie spoilers revealed, or c) can’t resist temptation [...]
Merlin Olsen died this week. He had been battling cancer for the past couple of years, so it wasn’t a surprise that he passed away. What was surprising was his age. Merlin Olsen was 69. Which seems impossible … since it seemed like he had been around forever. In 1968, Olsen sang “Under the Boardwalk” [...]
I’m not kidding. There are things you might not want to know and, frankly, things I wish I didn’t know. And some of those will be revealed over the next few paragraphs. So, if you’re the squeamish type, I’ll understand it if you decide to move along. Thanks for the page hit; we’ll catch up [...]
