[NSFW] It's almost time to Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys -- the final episode of the Trailer Park Boys aired in December, 2008. (As Bubbles says, "It's a dirty, sassy liquor. So sassy.") Producer Mike Clattenburg says that there will be a second movie, "Countdown to Liquor Day", ...

If you’re an agency pilfering out social media advice to your clients, you might be constantly asked what’s the best way to come up with some winning strategies and campaigns.  After some careful consideration and a further review of what’s going on in the social world, it seems t...

The last full throttle attempt to mount a live-action Mad Max IV stalled in 2003. Pretty much every year since then Mel Gibson has done something - either professionally or, not to put too fine a point on it, unprofessionally - to convince me the film would never get made. Turns out I was wrong. Geo...

Manny Ramirez drove the Dodgers to within three games of the World Series, but no one knows whose uniform he’ll be donning in 2009. Alright, the push is on to hammer the rest of these reports out as we gear up for the release of the 2009 RotoRob MLB Draft Kit. If you’ve missed any of the pre...

The Reason.tv video Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye took top prize in the Best Documentary Short category at the Oxford Film Fest. Congratulations to Paul Feine, Roger Richards, and Dan Hayes for their hard work. And of course, props to Drew Carey for making the video possible. You...

Thank you to Dr. Tompkins for passing along this encouraging article from Inside Higher Ed about the current crisis in English jobs.  Some of the ideas discussed in this article are very similar to my own thinking about what my eventual career path may entail. Via Jill, I am slowly engrossing mysel...

I figured I'd post another review this week since I've got a decent number in the hopper, with a couple more to be written in the next few days. I don't read enough short fiction in the genre, as I've said before so I begain rectifying that very quickly this year when I read Jonathan Strahan's indis...

Derick Brassard headlines a great crop of Blue Jacket rooks, but unfortunately a shoulder injury will keep him out for the rest of the season. While it’s officially past the halfway point of the schedule, the All-Star break is the symbolic tipping point NHL year. Let’s take a look back a...

If you thought the first sizzle reel for Crank 2: High Voltage a few weeks back was awesome, wait until you see finished footage set to music. To put it simply, Crank 2 appears to be one of those movies that will have adrenaline junkies shitting themselves all over again. And for those like me, who ...

For today's Year In Review post, I look back at the big trends and hot topics that cropped up in YA lit in 2008. That is, outside of the whole "Twilight" explosion (see my thoughts on that phenomenon in Part One of Anastasia's earlier YIR coverage.) Crossing the Young Adult/Adult Divide This year th...