Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty. CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER. FOX has a n...

A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

As one may discern from the heading above, we have a historic announcement today on these cyber pages at Mayor Sam. It is time to bless one Jack Weiss as the first multiple winner of the "Ass Clown Award" for dubious achievements and misdoings as a Councilperson/Candidate for City Attorney. With... ...

Ace Hardware marketing meeting Marketer: I've got a great idea for a sales gimmick! You can get a discount on whatever you fit in this bag! Finance type: Unless that bag is glued shut, no way. We can't afford it. Marketer: [gleam in her eye] ...oh, I know how we can afford it. [cue evil laughter] Or...

This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week’s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the Mang...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free It doesn't matter if you love him or you have a dry-clean only voodoo doll of him complete with Chia-Pet sized eyebrows just to prove how much you hate him. You have to admit that Adam Carolla hasn't had the steadiest career. He's h...

Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free The A-Team movie has become the fabled Citizen Kane of our times, which doesn't say a whole hell of a lot for our times. The movie has been passed around and played with more than a bongo at Matthew McConaughey's house. It's gone from production staff t...

Another huge week of arrivals, so another extremely long Sunday post… The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker (Subterranean Press Hardcover June 2009) – This sounds like an interesting little novelette (or novella?) from Baker. I’ve still got two novels from her staring at me. Lady Beatrice...

I just came back from the private opening of the American Idol Experience at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and I had a blast.  I’m thoroughly exhausted but it really was a lot of fun.  Disney really knows how to put on a show and I am extremely grateful to them for the fabulous...

Ornery old James T. Raleigh couldn’t help but snicker. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine had just publicly christened the maiden voyage of the new Atlantic City Express Service (ACES), the region’s first direct train from New York to Atlantic City in decades, and then abruptly hopped off the illus...