“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 have been interpreted and re-interpreted, acting over the years as a starting point for debates on privacy and online anonymity. In Japan, a country wit...

Sometimes it can be constructive to get out a little anger about those things in writing that really tick us off. The things that really get under our skin about bad writing, and what leaps off the page as a sign that the author either has no talent or isn't trying hard enough. What do you hate most...

Take surrealism. Mix in Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai, the "Big Blow" of 1935, the Spanish Civil War, the Black Dahlia, and Castro's conquest of Cuba and you have the sweep of this book. Now, mix in noir prose (a hard-bitten style that seems to thriv...

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A blood oath isn't good enough for a California appeals court. The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana agreed with a lower court when it ruled a contract written in blood between two Korean businessmen is unenforceable. Jinsoo Kim and his friend Stephen Son were drinking at a sushi restaurant ...

I was visiting SamuraiFrog's site and he was noting that some named Slpotchy has designated a day to adopt an actor. I would recommend you pick a character actor, as they are the unsung heroes of the entertainment world. By adopting Character Actor X you are not expected to be an exhaustive resource...

Hello friends and foe. Okay, that was cheesy. I have a confession to make and it’s like omgggggg… Totally fucked up. Haha… But believe me, I can’t help myself. It must be the full moon. It’s the season now. Btw, did you see the full moon? OMGGGG… Major creepiness....

Okay, I know everyone's probably sick of hearing about the Watchmen flick by now. But let me just throw out a few thoughts about the film, and we'll see where we go from here. I know I'm forgetting something, so I may do a follow-up at some point. SPOILERS begin after the first pic, end after the se...

IT'S fair to say that not many Hollywood movie stars hail from Blackpool. But the Lancashire seaside resort is the birthplace of actor David Thewlis, who has starred alongside A-Listers including Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio and is best known recently for playing Rumus Lupin in the Harry Potter f...

If you're on Twitter, follow Bryan Brinkman. Follow him not because I said so, you wouldn't do that anyways. Let's face it, I'm not influential like that. People like Jimmy Fallon and Questlove though, two guys who are influential, are the ones who want you to follow Bryan. Who's Bryan? You ask. I d...