...For female readers, “Ablutions� could be hard to take — particularly during scenes like the one in which ugly prostitutes are penetrated from the front and back, and “everyone is on cocaine and cannot ejaculate and the prostitutes . .......

He may be the captain of Liverpool.  He may be the vice captain of the England squad.  But nothing Steven Gerrard has done has ever impressed me as much as this 20 second clip.  (And I don't care if he tried it 100 times and they're only showing two tries in the video - it&...

Feb. 16 is interesting in my word-of-the-day calendar: Augean stable - a condition or place marked by great accumulation of filth or corruption Used in a sentence: Ulysses S. Grant's presidency was marred by his failure to clean out the......

From Serious Eats: Photo of the Day: Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo I could only find one page on the web to confirm that duoseptuoagenuple is an actual word that refers to '72.' In this particular post, it refers to a man......

Recently, my word of the day from my, well, word-of-the-day calendar was: Nugatory, adj. 1. of little or no consequence: trifling, inconsequential 2. having no force: inoperative One of the reasons I found this word so interesting was their description......

I've got a new word-of-the-day calendar that I'm probably going to bring up quite a bit on the blog. Earlier this week, it explained the origins of the word epiphany. It comes from the "Greek verb epiphainein, meaning 'to manifest,',......

I am not sorry to see 2008 go. I've been battling vertigo/ dizziness now since May, and it has affected everything I do. More to the point, it's affected everything I don't do. I was unable to go to the......

She's walking her walk. We all have a walk in life, we have hard and difficult times, and going through that chaos often leads to clarity. We have to have that room and that space, that privacy time, to be......

...She worked hard to dispel the “fey, sweet, rosy and charming� image of Woolf that she feels filmmakers especially have promoted. “What I read in ‘The Waves’ is actually stark, merciless and quite terrifying,� she said. “There are lines of......

I meant to post this a few weeks ago but never got around to it. Anyway, watch Charles Barkley call himself a dumb ass on air....