In the never-ending quest to pilfer the meaningfulness out of each other’s work, the old Joe Mankiewicz tenet of “Distil! Distil!” has been reduced from fine, clear moonshine into R-Rated, raunchy, racially inclusive pap, vaguely recognizable as being something indeed familiar, yet strongly malodorous in […]
This week we’ll learn why we should start panicking already now, all forms of sex studies are justified no matter how redundant, that some British fear the most bizarre things, and finally we have the heart-warming story of when nature bites back at nature biting […]
Old friends’ night out at the Cell on Friday. The Chicago White Sox hosting the Toronto Bluejays. Great seats. Bad game. Consummate boredom. Fester, Kevin and yours truly. Expensively domestic and $9 hot dogs. Afterward real drinking. Tales of Big Richard, our crazy roommate, circa […]
I’m sure by now you’ve noticed that a bunch of really rich, really famous people are creating videos of a bucket of ice being dumped on their head. It’s either a way for them to stay young, get richer or a way for them to […]
If you’ve ever had any kind of anger issues, chances are you’ve found yourself yelling at inanimate objects sometime in your life. While people with less aggressive coping skills might think it’s a pointless exercise, it’s an understandable way to channel that anger towards its […]
Newspapers are becoming doubly toxic these days. More and more people are allergic, it seems, to the soy ink which was supposed to be cleaner than the lead-based linotype old-school newspapers were originally printed in. Life is full of ironies, right? No matter, because fewer […]
Put simply, wage labor is a socioeconomic relationship that exists between two people whereby the employee sells their time to his or her employer. The sum total of that labor is then the property of the employer. The employer typically contracts workers to labor between […]
Shakespeare had it right: “If music be the food of love, then play on…” Then again, the man who once wrote “brevity is the soul of wit” sure did go on a fair bit, so maybe he wasn’t spot on all the time. The point […]
Sex and religion have always been awkwardly linked to each other. On one hand, they’re both pretty primal and passional subjects for human beings. On another, religion is so historically forbidding of anything flesh-related that putting both together became the ultimate taboo for some people. […]
As we all know, criminals and technology can make for a highly toxic cocktail. Now, of course, we’re hearing every day about master criminals out of the Russian Federation stealing all our credit card information. There’s also the shrugging acceptance in Europe, North and South […]
One of the great upsides of being a drunk is being able to blame our asshole moments on the booze and our decreasing tolerance, while testing our friends’ own tolerance for us. Maybe it’s loud behavior, an overreaction to something that hurt us, an inappropriate […]
Here’s a cool new toy, especially if you like to warble pop hits in the shower. You might call it a ‘Musical Selfie’ or ‘Karaoke a La Vid’. This is not like those sing-along apps that feature pop hit cover jobs, which are usually wooden, […]
So it’s the dead of summer, the sun is shining like a tripped-out mega lamp, ladies are dressed like they may as well be naked, all that glorious facial hair is backfiring on you, and you’ve just fallen ill of a cold or something (no […]
We’ve all been there. A moment of deep sadness in which a caring friend of ours tells us to keep a positive attitude. “Smile,” our friend would say, and we comply because we recognize the need to feel better and reflect that in our faces […]
All-around interesting porn fellow Alex de Renzy wrote, directed and produced Fantasy Girls. But while some of his other movies tend to tackle weirder and more niche-oriented pornographic settings, Fantasy Girls is surprisingly a very stereotypical and simple male fantasy turned into a movie. The […]
At the beginning of the summer, I wrote an enraged treatise on why I believed the beach and everything about it was the very worst. Now, after a few months of contemplation and beach going (well, twice), I’ve had a slight change of heart. Not […]
A lot of critics write about Brendan Gleeson like he’s a guy you could sit down and enjoy a pint with in a pub, all hail-well-fellow-met. But after watching him take Albert Finney’s version of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm and then reconstitute it […]
After such healthy returns at the box office and DVD market, whether you wanted another Inbetweeners movie or not is a little out of your control. But then, as much as people roll their eyes and say that the cash cow’s udders are dry, sometimes […]
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass. It is deep black and shiny. There are four different types of rock: igneous (which is the type under which obsidian falls), sedimentary, metamorphic, and last but not least: my penile shaft when I see (or even think […]
As a Brit living in Spain, one of the few things I used to miss about the ‘old country’ is the vast array of beer available. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a nice glass of wine (and good Iberian wine is second to none) […]
