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In Pursuit of the Baron Ambrosia Part 1

It was a Tuesday night. I’d just been clued into the mildly engrossing Turbo Tax Rap contest that was stockpiling entries on the YouTube garbage heap. The prize, $25,000 and a chance to spearhead the Turbo Tax marketing campaign, meant endless moments for public embarrassment. Some were mildly clever, but most of the entries were […]

Born To Be On The Sopranos

Have you ever noticed that in all the movies and TV shows that are about the Sicilian mafia you find the same actors over and over again?
Well I have. I think it’s an industry decision made up high, that Hollywood typecasts you as an actor fit for mafia scenes and that’s […]

Athletes in Music

I think back at my high school years and I wonder how I made it through all of them. I couldn’t make up my mind if I wanted to be a jock, or an artist, or if I wanted to be the cool rocker, smoking out by the B&J quick mart just off of […]

Song of the Week - March 16

Every week each of our writers shares the song that made his week just a little bit brighter…
Alibastard
“Johnny Guitar” by Peggy Lee
The theme song from the amazingly perposterous, most straightly-acted feminist cowboy movie of 1954 (okay, make that ‘only’ feminist cowboy movie of 1954), “Johnny Guitar” marks me deep. The film was made by […]

David Fincher’s Zodiac

There’s been talk of David Fincher’s new movie, Zodiac being too long. It is long, not exceptionally so, but pushing three hours. However, the movie divides itself rather neatly into two parts. The first section detailing Zodiac’s murders and their subsequent investigation in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s. The second part describing the toll […]

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