Subtle Bluntness

So Farrah Fawcett died and went to heaven.  God asked her, “You can have one wish, what would you like done on earth?” She says, “Save the suffering children.” So God kills Michael Jackson. Author’s Note: No, I didn’t write this one, but it was sent to me.  Yes, I know it’s bad.

I only have two pieces of religious music in my record collection, and both pieces are in the same CD sleeve.  They’re even the same genre, but they could not be farther apart religiously.  One’s a Christian ska band, and the other is the only Satanic ska band in music history (unless there’s something about [...]

Me: Why did you have to go and kill Michael Jackson? Garth Marenghi: I’m sorry. Me: Now his zombie won’t stop dancing on my lawn Garth Marenghi: It’s like “Return of the Living Dead II” only real. No one deserves that. If only I’d known this would happen, I’d’ve spared his life. Me: luckily for [...]

I saw Year One last weekend.  Not many other people did.  The crowd was sparse, as were the laughs. Here’s the review. It’s hard to believe Jack Black has gone from High Fidelity and Tenacious D to doing dreck like this.  It’s even harder to believe that Harold Ramis was associated with the project (though [...]

I’m digging The Creepshow quite a bit.  Something about their combination of rockabilly, doo-wop backing vocals, horror movie imagery, and general awesomeness is hitting all my spots.  It’s Halloween 24/7/365 here at SB for you new kids on the block. I’ve been on a serious horror kick lately anyway.  I’ve reread The Rising and City [...]

In the spirit of giving (and in the spirit of thanking her for sending me a whole box of leftover movie swag), allow me to share with you, one of my four readers, a horrible joke that my friend Katie of Word of Mouth OKC sent me the other day. Q: What’s Irish and stays [...]

This is the year of manly livin’ This is way to shake it to the modern beat This is a statement meant for givin’ This is the real meat

Wired: But “real” for you is so … unreal. You set The Strain in New York. In the past, your depictions of the city, from Mimic to Blade II to Hellboy, have had a fabulous aspect. del Toro: It comes from my first trip to New York as a child. I was walking around Central [...]

RIP, David Carradine.  From Caine to Bill to Frankenstein (and even as Coley in Macon County Jail), you were awesome. “It’s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It’s a marathon. You can’t quit; even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn’t. Look, I had absolute faith [...]

So I went to see Up this weekend.  It’s the #1 movie at the box office this weekend (because it’s a Pixar film) and as I said in my review, it’s a wonderful movie (because it’s a Pixar film).  If you have anything even remotely close to a romantic bone in your body, bring tissues [...]