Now that he’s clean and sober, Jackass prankster Steve-O is asking his fans to help him redesign his body art. The Dancing With The Stars hoffer, who admits he’s tired of some of his trademark ink, has launched an online contest for fans to exercise their creativity. “I’ve de...

I decided to dub this “U2 Week” in honour of U2 releasing their new album, No Line On the Horizon, on Tuesday 3 March 2009. You probably also have heard that U2 was on Late Show with David Letterman all this week and that they even had a street in NY temporarily named “U2 Way.̶...

As promised, probably one of the funniest hours of tv ever: For non-Hulu users, TDS is here, here, and here. And if that wasn’t good enough for you, the Colbert Report spend the entire episode mocking that idiot Glenn Beck: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(‘http://www.comedycentra...

Over the weekend I saw the movie, Fireproof, and was pleasantly surprised. The movie had some very funny moments and the suspense scenes were very exciting, plus it had a positive message. There was no anti Catholic content and it was a movie that could be viewed with your children in the room. But,...

As y'all know, I am inordinately fond of movies, and also of Top Five Lists and their lesser cousins, Top Ten lists and other denominations. So it was with interest that I perused this one put together by National Review, the "the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years," whic...

You know that event over the weekend I mentioned attending back here? It was a fund-raiser for Hand Middle School over at Gallery 701. And while a lot of folks did come up and converse with me about newspaper business, our dialogue was somewhat constrained by the fact that it was hard to talk over t...

Abi Southerland on the current popularity of Zombies:I mentioned this puzzle to my better half, who happens to be in the middle of a reread of World War Z. His answer? ... You can have a fascinating story about a single zombie in a world of humans or the last human in a world of zombies. You can do ...

At Britain's Daily Telegraph, Christopher Booker assures us that he is familiar with "the unabashed bigotry of staunch Darwinists." Well, so am I, because they glory in their ignorance. Mr. Booker writes, As an old hand at tangling with Darwinists, I was well aware that a howl of furious protests wo...

It’s 9:08 pm, PST, February 22, 2009. My calendar marks the day as Washington’s Birthday. For my mother and her second husband, it marked an anniversary. “George would have wanted it this way,� they used to say to each other, when they used to be in love, exchanging sly looks. The last Sunda...

Here's a little news-you-can-use info. You remember how sick I was before Christmas? Well, I never really got over it. I had the usual resolution to start working out in the New Year, and still haven't done it once, because I haven't had a day when I didn't feel like total crud, Ferr...