Like all print music magazines in these troubled times, indie rag Under The Radar wants your advertising money. Well, maybe not your advertising money, unless you own a record label. But they want advertising money. And even with the competition getting thinner every day, UTR still has to find...cre...

There are times when I get CDs in the mail to review and I try to give them a good listen. Sometimes it clicks right away and sometimes it takes time. Sometimes there is a lot I can say in praise of the band and sometimes not so much. What follows is 4 cds that have come in my mailbox that I’v...

Last night I went to a benefit screening of "The Watchmen," the ultimate anti-hero movie. It made me think about the cable TV trend of unlikely (and maybe even unlikeable) protagonists. I don't know if anti hero is actually the right word for people like mafia boss Tony Soprano, "Weeds'" drug dealin...

Hey, geeks (or people like us?): it's National Grammar Day. [National Grammar Day] We were totally pissed we missed this last year and we're actually considering entering this time. It's the third annual Peeps Diorama Contest! [Washington Post] Barbie got a tramp stamp! [Jossip] Justin T...

I can't help myself. Sharing this story is a sure sign that I've lost all remaining shreds of decency.But let's just stop pretending shall we? California Unified Nether Temple Society The BOS was extolling the virtues of the California Womens Health program, how great the doctors she saw were, blahb...

Pissing outside is great. If you really want to make a woman jealous, just pee outside in front of her. She’ll likely say, AHHHHHHH WHO ARE YOU I’M CALLING THE COPS. But underneath the skeeved-out fright and cloud of pepper spray, what she’s really trying to say is “Gee, I wi...

Yesterday was a challenge to my parenting expertise stamina.Supergirl was awful. Sassy, insolent, unrepentant.She spent the afternoon in time-outs which were extended before they were served.I wanted to smack her around a bit, but we don't do that. Finally, by dinnertime, she would just not stop ant...

The Academy Awards for 2008 have been handed out, and the “popular kids� have Oscars on their mantles, but the dirty little secret about winning awards is that you’ve gotta campaign for them. Thousands of dollars were spent by the distributors and filmmakers behind Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Sea...

Envisioning Daniel Snyder scheming over how he would lure Albert Haynesworth to Washington with all that cash brings to mind, bizarre as this might sound, an old "Austin Powers" clip. Remember the character who leered diabolically into the camera, his pinkie perched near his pursed lips as he named ...

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