If I ever had to show anyone a slice of pure suburban american cheese, I’d show them this commercial. “I’m hoping to probably get the new Camry hybrid.”

Drenched in a sappy 80’s soundtrack comes Imperial Bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis’ follow-up to his juvenile debut, Less Than Zero. Like its predecessor, Imperial Bedrooms is also named after an Elvis Costello work. This time the title comes from Costello’s 1982 album Imperial Bedroom. Slap a plural on there and off we go! The book [...]

After the death of Esther Hoffe (long time friend and secretary of Max Brod, and sole executor of Brod’s estate), the attempts to seize the final documents of Franz Kafka and Max Brod from the Hoffe daughters have transitioned from passive-aggressive to completely aggressive-aggressive. Over the past two odd years since Esther Hoffe’s death, no [...]

Film Producer Rodney Rothman (most recently of Get Him to the Greek) is apparently trying to put together a Dog of the South movie starring Bill Hader as Ray Midge. But don’t hold your breath for this one because you will definitely die before you even get to see a trailer. The source is a [...]

I guess being a low-talent, aspiring singer that looks like everyone else in southern California makes it hard to become famous the old fashioned way. Unless getting “hosed down” by your producer is the old fashioned way? I mean, even Marilyn Monroe admitted to giving a blow job or two. 2010 pop-sensation Ke$ha (tik-tok, blah [...]

I met computer hacker/anarcho-activist Jeremy Hammond through a network of sketchy associations sometime in early 2006. A little more than a year later I got the news that he’d been busted by the FBI and was in federal prison.  That was in July 2007, part-way through his two-year prison sentence. At the time, I was [...]

Is it possible to make doing drugs look any more boring? I don’t know, but this should be core of the next anti-drug ad campaign. I realize it’s annoying and cliche to say things like “I worry about the next generation of kids,” but damn … do we really need another reason to hate teenagers? [...]