Subtle Bluntness

Something about this just gets my head bobbing.  For realz, yo.  Actually, not for realz, but the best part is at the end, so feel free to skip ahead about halfway, but it’s pretty funny throughout. As my friend Andrew said, “I look forward to what things will be like in 50 years.  Retirement homes [...]

Via YBNBY, here’s a great mash-up of one of my favorite pop cultural phenomena with one of the biggest news stories of the past few weeks.  As always, the moral of our story here is don’t rape children. And yes, before anyone rises to defend their favorite non-Victor Salva pedophile director, it was rape.  It [...]

Dad and I are going to see these guys tomorrow night at the Horseshoe Casino.  I am incredibly excited and look forward to having John Popper blow my mind with his epic harp skills.

As some of you know, I have a lot of writing jobs.  Pretty much everywhere I post these days has some sort of blog advertisement, except for this site.  Not anymore.  I’ve managed to secure myself a sponsor for Subtle Bluntness, and here’s their commercial. Actually, that’s not my sponsor.  I don’t have one.  But [...]

First, I’ll give you the good sound quality version. Now I’ll give you the version from “Punk in London”, which reveals X-Ray Spex lead singer Poly Styrene isn’t just a cuddly little singing mutt, but a full-blown twitching, shambling force of nature.  There’s a reason that little Anglo-Somalian girl put The Fear into Johnny Rotten.  [...]

“Hey, Johnny Park!” doesn’t get a lot of respect since it landed on The Colour and the Shape.  That’s “Everlong”‘s album.  Also, “Monkey Wrench,” “Walking After You,” “My Hero,” and (to a lesser extent) “See You.”  Still, it’s kind of grown on me lately and has become one of my favorite Foo tracks.  When I [...]

That LOLdog works on two levels because A) nom nom nom it are my birthday and B) the English Bulldog is the mascot of my high school, where I shall be spending part of my birthday Saturday in the course of celebrating my 10-year high school reunion.  I’m turning 28; not quite the memorable 30th, [...]

When looking for a Feel Good Friday theme today, my first thoughts went to my reunion.  Hell, 10 years ago about this time I was starting my freshman year of college.  I had a quick look at the charts, then came to realize that 1999 was an absolutely horrible year for music.  I mean, it [...]

Just when I thought I’d seen the gayest thing ever, along comes showtunes-singing Charles Nelson Reilly in a banana costume.  Moments later, that horrible image is topped by the very same Banana Nelson Reilly drawing the most Freudian “banana” in a “hat” in phallic symbol history. If that’s not nightmare fuel, then I’ve never seen [...]

I’ve got a big weekend of watching (and reviewing) things ahead of me.  Sadly, I’m a little bit behind, but what else is new?  I’ll catch up ASAP.  Among the things I’ll be watching are the detectives of Watchmen, as I picked up the Director’s Cut DVD for myself this week (along with the full [...]