Last night at the premiere of The Great Buck Howard, we asked director Sean McGinley what it was like working with John Malkovich, who plays the has-been mentalist. Because he seems, well, kind of scary: “You know, the company that financed this film, they came to me about two weeks before we ...

Our boy The 1/3 turned us on to this important happening in June. A bunch of bands that longtime Buzzgrinder readers will recognize and appreciate are reuniting for a good cause. I just went ahead and re-posted the entire blog entry from The Huntingtons about the event. Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Ci...

Downgraded: The mile-high club That’s what airlines need in order to survive the economic downturn: Hookers! “Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania say [Roger] Sedlak used a non-existent airline, dubbed CQ Air, to arrange sex-for-cash trysts in hotels across state lines.” The thing i...

White House social secretary Desirée Rogers has spent most of the first weeks of her job inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but was lured to New York for the School of American Ballet's winter ball by her friend Pamela Joyner, who chaired the event. "I would say right now, you know, most of my ti...

VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: There's a very funny little telephone complication caused by Idol taking Anoop Desai as its 13th finalist... You see, when American Idol asks viewers to vote for finalists, they generally have them call one of twelve numbers, which range from 1-866-436-5701 to 1-866-436-57...

U2 have just released their 10th studio album, No Line on The Horizon and as usual they will set off on a full scale tour in support of No Line On The Horizon on July 30th called U2 360° Tour. The tour, which is produced by Livenation Global will kick off in Barcelona, Spain for 14 days in Europe a...

Christine Murphy watched a report last night on that State House bake sale/protest for the MBTA and she got mad - although not the way the organizers would hope. Murphy explains how she wants to ride the T, but can't, because the Orange Line is just too unreliable and that increases in the gas tax s...

Lighter posting this weekend.  I’m cleaning up the back yard for Spring and other assorted house-cleaning chores I’ve been putting off for a while. Michael Pietroforte at his awesome 4sysops blog has one of the best sysadmin sites I just can’t wait to see a new post from. Michael’s skil...

Y'all should hop on over to see what Christ Dena has to say about the pervasive binary thinking we're seeing online with increasing frequency of late.  It's an excellent point. I know everything I've ever done, no matter how good or how bad, is an aggregate of much smaller succ...

Paul Krugman, Martin Wolff and even Ben Freaking Stein (Half-time brilliant, half-time Bozo) have all weighed in on the stimulus package as not being audacious enough. Well, this is why they are probably right ... The nation is losing jobs so quickly that the government, racing to deal with the cris...