Tweet The alcohol is fine.  We love Guinness stout.  I’m concerned about these parents that allow their teenagers to go all out so they can get into… the book, the Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of World Records. Recently there was 17 year old Mike Perham who became the youngest [...]

Tweet Reports of the English Cockney accent’s death in the UK Times in 2005, must have been greatly exaggerated.  Today comes news that Bank Machine, a company that operates 2,500 ATMs in the UK, has added Cockney to the language options of five machines in East London.  The ATMs asked users if they wanted, “some [...]

Tweet As Summer TV programming begins to fade away, Geppetto asked, “Which town is the most dangerous place to live, Eureka of SyFy Channel’s Eureka or Bon Temps of HBO’s True Blood?” For my money, its Eureka. You’re basically stuck in a science fair cluster f*ck. Walking down the street you suddenly realize your skeletal [...]

Tweet If you have a thing for Marilyn Monroe and you just can’t let go, then you need to meet  Elsie Poncher.  Poncher is offering a golden ticket to an afterlife with Marilyn Monroe… on eBay.  She is selling her late husband’s burial spot at Westwood Village Memorial Park, which sits directly above film legend [...]

Tweet I’m kind of torn on the whole McSteamy sex tape. First of all, he’s all yummy and whatnot, so part of me wants to see it. From the few accounts I have read it sounds kind of boring. What can I say. I guess I’m spoiled when it comes to sex tapes. It’s got [...]

Tweet It was a bad week for female politicians.  In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cleavage was prominently featured in campaign ads- from her own party.  Vera Lengsfeld, a member of Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), approved a campaign poster showing herself and the chancellor in low-cut dresses with the slogan “We have more to offer”. [...]

Tweet So a few hours ago I was sipping a martini and watching Seth MacFarlane sing Rocket Man as Stewie Griffin.  Let me back up and say that membership finally has its privileges.  I’ve been a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmy people) for years now, and I’ve never [...]

Tweet I know I have crap taste in television shows for the most part. My reason for watching a show ranges from dumb to… well dumber.  I may watch because I like one or more of the actors. I may watch because it’s based on a foreign show I like or it is at least [...]

Tweet According to Variety, “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” had a $100.3 million worldwide opening weekend. Somebody liked it.  Being familiar with G.I. Joe cartoons from the 1980s it makes me wonder: “If knowing is half the battle.  What exactly are we fighting that is such a pussy, that simply knowing is half of [...]