Canadian porn actor Luke Magnotta has been jailed for 25 years after being found guilty of murdering and dismembering his partner in 2012. Although Magnotta’s defence team pushed for a plea based on diminished responsibility stemming from mental illness, the jury still found Magnotta to […]
Harken, consumers, for Christmas is almost upon us. Black Friday left many a soul battered and weary, and a veritable forest of miniature trees is facing yuletide xenocide. Wallets are being hastily emptied, and families are scrambling to work all the shifts possible to sneak […]
Don’t ever think that age is a barrier to the true Dark Lord of Hollywood. Even at the age of 92, Christopher Lee has released his third consecutive heavy metal Christmas song. The actor, known for his roles as Lord Sarumon, Count Dooku and countless […]
Most of us grew up watching cartoons. Disney aside, most of what I receive as funny came from Chuck Jones and his Looney Toons crew, Fractured Fairy Tales and, much later, The Tick. Production values were never high on my list, just the quality of […]
Today a bunch of new friends and I were discussing pop culture when the subject of Miley Cyrus came up. I was a little surprised that the women in the group were giving her so much slack for her current lifestyle choices. They called her […]
Just so we cover all the bases here, let’s say Merry Christmas to all the Christians out there; Happy Holidays to all the other faith-based denominations; and Cool Random Day Off to all you lucky atheists shoveling turkey and booze down your throats. Whatever your […]
It’s a little hard to define this movie. With a full title like The Sexualist: A Voyage to the World of Forbidden Love, you’d expect an elaborate pseudo-spiritual journey that overcomes all kinds of taboos, but just when you think you figured it out, some […]
Hollywood takes perpetual criticism from all sides. If they’re not original enough, then they’re not pandering to accepted social conventions, or being racist, or greedy, or whatever other crime people can drum up. …and yeah, sure…we’re not going to sit here and claim that Tinseltown […]
Joe Janes is an Emmy award-winning writer and teaches comedy writing and improv at the world’s most famous and prestigious comedy club, The Second City, and Columbia College. He has written for Jellyvision’s “You Don’t Know Jack” and SNL’s “Weekend Update.” He has published three books […]
Defining what the “other” is in this day and age becomes more difficult as time goes by. As the human race evolves and adapts to become more varied and tolerant, so too do our perceptions of the differences between us. One of the biggest areas […]
Spoilers ahead! As expected, the recent installment of Black Mirror, called “White Christmas,” is mind boggling in all the most cleverly and delightfully nightmarish ways. Series creator and writer Charlie Brooker has really outdone himself this time, delivering the most spine tingling episode of the […]
Testosterone and money are a heady, fatal mix. New money and old money may seem the same if you’ve got none, but when the Schultz brothers decided to deal with the über-weird John Du Pont they made a deal with a devil whose power they […]
I haven’t reviewed a Victory beer since I published my thoughts on their Golden Monkey tripel over a year ago. Shame on me! Victory Brewing out of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is in my prestigious list of top ten brewers not only because their beer is superbly […]
It’s over folks! After nine years on air, the final episode of The Colbert Report aired last night on Comedy Central. Of course, it was a schmaltzy affair, with an incredibly long rendition of wartime classic We’ll Meet Again, before Stephen flew off into eternity […]
We are always looking towards technology to not only advance our physical capabilities, but to give us moral guidance and apply any lessons to be learned into a stronger societal frame. So as a number of governments across the world are finally granting homosexuals the […]
You wanna start a war, huh? You wanna get some big ol’ firey conflict going on up in here? Well, the easiest way to do that these days is to write a Best Of The Year music list! Now, BaDoink doesn’t particularly endorse conflict, nor […]
Fantasy Football is hugely popular on these shores, but yesterday’s historic and largely unexpected announcement of a ‘normalization’ of relations between the US and Cuba was more akin to Fantasy Diplomacy. Not only did President Obama and Raul Castro get around the fire and begin […]
Ever since leaving my New England haven of bagels, brisket, and bar/bat mitzvahs, I’ve had to endure year after year of yuletide “joy.” Currently, I reside somewhere in the Iberian peninsula, and every time I mention Hanukkah or other awesome Jewish holidays, I am greeted […]
Don’t let it be said that Americans don’t have a penchant for buying bullshit. Literally. Ideally, a market strategy is definitely working when you can sell shit to people and they still line up to buy it. It’s even better when you can tell them, […]
It’s kind of hard to believe just how simplistic Apple’s zero tolerance-policy is. I mean, the very phrase “Thinking outside the box” could be interpreted as alluding to something to do with sex that’s, umm, not vagina. And by ’not vagina,’ I may mean something […]
