A friend sent me a viral email today containing a link to an Amstel beer advert which interestingly has been around for over 18 months.  The video clearly pokes fun at men, but have representatives of the less-fair sex created  a PR crisis for Amstel and demanding the “patronising...

The saturated desert hues and retro motel settings of this video (shot during a recent West Coast tour in the desert outside LA with director Matt Amato) are visually stunning. The fact that this is such a marvelous song makes it even better. Baltimore duo Beach House remind me of a female-fronted F...

Remember like ten years ago when Jason and I went to Disney World and it was Halloween and we rode a bunch of rides and hung out with our nieces for six days and ate a bunch of junk food and spent about 500 billion dollars and took about twelvity thousand pictures of the whole thing? Well, let's jum...

A while ago, some ICU nurses were singing the praises of WoW (World of Warcraft to you non-computer geek folk). I had heard of this game only twice before. Once featured on a South Park episode, the second being while I was in nursing school. Student-Nurse-Know-It-All was having issues with her husb...

Wanda Sykes speaks out about Prop 8 at a rally hosted by the LGBT Center of Nevada in Las Vegas Nov. 15, 2008....

Given that election law is my specialty, regular readers of Balkinization may have been puzzled that I haven't posted much during the last year. The reason is that I have been serving as a member of then-Senator Obama's national election protection team since April of 2007. Because I was doing that ...

The ecofabulous team has been hard at work and it slipped our minds to remind you that our very own Zem Joaquin with be joining the KFOG 104.5 FM Morning team today (Nov 18) at 8 AM PST! Zem will be revealing her tips for celebrating a green Thanksgiving holiday. Feel free to email us questions you&...

Ok–this post will probably be controversial, but so be it. Some of you are probably aware that I do not like dealing with GoDaddy. In fact, if you have a web site hosted on their service and want me to do any work on it–it has to be moved off to another hosting provider. The only thing t...

Ben Nichols of Lucero has a gravelly, urgent voice full of hard wilderness. I cannot fully tell you how excited I am by the fact that his new solo album The Last Pale Light In The West is inspired by the Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian, which I coincidentally just started reading last week. McCa...

Monday, November 17, 2008 breakfast - granola bars lunch - chicken salad sandwiches snack - soft pretzels dinner - chicken curry with rice Jamie’s lunch - ham sandwich, chips, celery and peanut butter Tuesday, November 18, 2008 breakfast - oatmeal lunch - ham sandwiches snack - hard-boiled egg...