Everybody loves a good Western. Except people who don’t like Westerns. The list isn’t for them. It’s for those that dooooo-eee-oooo-eee-oooooo-wah-wah-waaaaaaaaah… The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) An undisputed classic, and the origin of that tune we all sing when are about to […]
Union Station, Chicago Greetings, my beer drinking mates! Last week BaDoink published the first part of my two-part narrative about my recent self-administered beer bukkake at the 2014 Chicago Beer Festival. If your memory isn’t a foggy, swirling haze from drinking the beers I recommended, […]
In the final installment of a four part series looking at corruption in sport, Henry Vespa looks at the connection between sport and the construction industry… You’d think corporate-branded justice and immense backhanders to committee members would be enough dirt to sling at the ‘good’ name […]
If you’re anything like me (and, according to surveys, over 70% of the American population) you constantly worry about your weight. Sometimes it might seem like a dead end, but we’re hopeful and optimistic that we can keep it down; or if we gained some, […]
This morning, a colleague pointed my attention towards an article posted in yesterday’s Huffington Post reporting on a new documentary about that every lunatic’s favorite French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. I can already hear the collective sigh of boredom. ‘There are already a million documentaries about […]
The big news out of Austin’s cutting-edge SXSW music fest and convention out of Austin, Texas, was the announcement on March 15, 2014, by the legendary Canadian rocker Neil Young of the launch of his very own new portable PonoPlayer accompanied by the launching of […]
There’s a cartoon in which a person is sitting at their computer. Their partner asks why they don’t come to bed, and the person responds ‘Because someone on the internet is wrong!’ I’ve witnessed many disagreements on internet forums that degenerate into infantile name-calling or […]
April Fool’s Day became infinitely more fun upon the advent of the world wide web, and this year did not disappoint. In fact, 2014 might go down in history as one of the most epic years in the history of Internet pranks, on par with […]
The world can be a pretty crazy place. For proof of that you need look no further than Ukraine. Incredibly, we’re not talking about Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Crimea here – and, as crazy goes, that whole thing has been pretty damn nutso – but […]
On March 29, 2014, Oleksii Khoroshenin pocketed an astonishing EUR 578,392 when he beat the final table at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Vienna event. The Ukrainian poker pro could have banked considerably more if he hadn’t made a deal when there were only three […]
Television science fiction has always been a great place to find some of cutest, hottest, incredibly sexy damn females in the whole crazy universe. Here’s 10 of them… Rose Tyler Doctor Who’s feisty blonde bombshell. She makes my boxers feel bigger on the inside! Cheetara […]
Imagine a bathroom with no towels. Cutting your laundry down by a third. A ton more closet space in your bathroom. A small, but genuine change in our lifestyles… all because an invention has taken the notion of the industrial-type machine dryers we see in […]
I was at a dinner party last week when I was introduced to a friend of a friend who had just got back from having been in Africa for the last two months. I found the stories of his travels fascinating until he mentioned that […]
There you have it folks, the end of How I Met Your Mother has polarized the comments section of every website on the Internet, and broken many hearts in the process. The much awaited season finale to one of the most beloved and emotionally investing […]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you want to know that the person you’re with is the person you should be with, the best thing to do is take a sniff at their armpits or crotch, or both. You see, humans, […]
Now that Christmas and the Super Bowl are done, NCAA March Madness looms and the close of the European soccer season in May and then the World Cup in July. In between are gaps. Time enough to do your comparison shopping for a new HDTV […]
Ah, April Fool’s Day! It’s day in which all folks, friends and foes alike partake in harmless to really-frickin-sweet-but-friendship-ending pranks across the world. According to the Huffington Post, the history of the day is kinda sketchy (it appears in literature like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and […]
Did you know that the undershirt is the reason we now have t-shirts? What was once issued by the US Navy to its crew to wear under their uniform is also the reason we now have deep V-necks for men. But what is the humble […]
It’s no secret that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il, was a massive movie fan. He reportedly owned over 20,000 videos and DVDs (videos and DVDs are how people used to watch films before the Internet) and even went so far as to […]
Top image by Gil C / Shutterstock.com In a rare interview with Hugh Grant, the current CEO of chemical and seed giant Monsanto, revealed that Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules, has been secretly in command of the agribusiness company for […]
