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A video of Paris Hilton that doesn’t make you hate her
Adam McKay is Will Ferrell's regular collaborator, and the director and co-writer of "Anchorman," "Talladega Nights," and "Step Brothers." So he's obviously a talented guy. I don't think I appreciated just how talented he is, though, until I saw this...
Wednesday movie roundup – Aug. 6
For some reason everybody decided to release their movies on Wednesday this week instead of Friday, just for funsies! Which suits me fine, because now I can pretend it's the weekend and just lie around until Monday.
"Pineapple Express" is the late...
More fun with Germany
I don't know why I'm on a German kick lately, but here are two amusing YouTube videos that made me sit up and say "Ach!"
First, Adolf Hitler sings.
Second, "ALF" is dubbed into German.
"Willie, mein freund!"
Monday = ‘Snide Remarks’ (usually)
This week's "Snide Remarks" addresses the matter of bikes vs. cars, and it's called "Bike Curious." You go read now!
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Friday movie roundup – Aug. 1
I'd like to see "The Dark Knight" stay at the top of the box office this weekend, but there's a chance it will be unseated by "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." Which is a shame, since "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" is terrible.
Not...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Masters of the Universe’ (1987)
When I first announced "Eric's Bad Movies" a few months ago and asked for suggestions, "Masters of the Universe" was one that came up many, many times. And with good reason! It is a very silly movie, and it is the subject of this week's edition of EB...
Child’s laughter opens portal to hell
I don't know how many others have tried this -- it seems like a pretty simple idea -- but this video of a little girl giggling has been dramatically slowed down, thus turning the merry sounds of a child's laughter into something evil and hilarious.
...
No ‘Snide Remarks’; consolation prizes instead
Look, I could sit here and make excuses for not having a new "Snide Remarks" this week. But I respect you more than that! (As far as you know, anyway.)
Actually, I had two different columns on the ol' word-processing assembly line at various times...
Fun new game: comparing Obama to Hitler!
I don't usually think about Adolf Hitler very much. No more than the average person, I guess. Ten or eleven times a day, tops. But my Internet browsing on Thursday led me to two extra Hitler mentions, and in both cases the person being compared to hi...
Friday movie roundup – July 25
This is a lull week in the summer blockbuster schedule. Only a couple of wide releases that no one's all that excited about anyway have been tossed out as sacrificial lambs against "The Dark Knight," which has made so much money that you could stack ...
The Utah accent strikes again
I just discovered this news item from Salt Lake City in April. It seems a would-be robber walked into Cafe Trio, held out a bag to the cashier, and said "fill the bag." Alas, the cashier thought the crook's request had been to feel the bag -- "feel" ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Over the Top’ (1987)
This week's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com features "Over the Top," which has long been regarded as the "Citizen Kane" of arm-wrestling movies.
I'm astonished by how many bad movies Sylvester Stallone has made. I suspect this will not ...
More evidence that a lot of ‘Dark Knight’ fans are a-holes
We've already amply covered the subject of negative reviews of "The Dark Knight" being attacked by the movie's fans (or pre-fans, since most of them hadn't yet seen it when they went ballistic). But it turns out you can write a glowing, extremely pos...
Goodbye, dumb UVSC; hello just-as-dumb UVU
Earlier this month, a very sad thing happened: Utah Valley State College became Utah Valley University.
Longtime readers will recall that when I lived in Utah Valley (i.e., the Provo/Orem area) and worked for a newspaper there, UVSC was one of my ...
An album I like: ‘Dynamo,’ by Faded Paper Figures
I have an old friend named John Williams. Not old in the sense of being elderly, and not John Williams in the sense of being a famous film-score composer; old in the sense of I've known him a long time, and John Williams in the sense of being a guy i...
‘Snide Remarks’ is from 413 years ago
You think "Dark Knight" fans are bad? You should have seen the fervor when Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was released! That's the shaky premise of this week's "Snide Remarks" column, entitled "The Fanboys Respond to 'Romeo and Juliet,' 1595." Enjo...
Friday movie roundup – July 18
Holy posthumous Oscar, Batman! Get a load of Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight," a groundbreaking and all-around excellent superhero flick that happens to feature one of the most fascinating, most unnerving villain performances ever. I use this term f...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Batman & Robin’ (1997)
As expected, this week's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com is "Batman & Robin," the disaster that brought the Batman franchise to a screeching halt 11 years ago. One of my rules for this column is that I don't want to do films that I alr...
Pretending to hate ‘The Dark Knight’ just to make people mad is fun
So I was in the shower Wednesday morning, and I was thinking about the Rotten Tomatoes users' unusually vicious responses to negative reviews of "The Dark Knight," and you know me, I'm always looking for a little fun, so I thought, "I should post a n...
Negative ‘Dark Knight’ reviews bring out people’s Joker-like tendencies
At the moment, 37 reviews of "The Dark Knight" have been linked at Rotten Tomatoes, most of them ecstatic. But four are negative, and this does not sit well with some of the movie's most ardent supporters -- most of whom, I should point out, have not...
Filed under: friends, uninterested in making
Those of you who watch a lot of reality TV may find this montage amusing. Those of you who don't watch a lot of reality TV may be reminded of why you don't.
‘The Dark Knight’ update
I double-checked with the publicist, and I'm not supposed to publish my review of "The Dark Knight" until Thursday at the earliest. (Friday, really, but since there are screenings at 12:01 a.m. Friday, no one will freak out if the review goes live so...
‘Snide Remarks’; also, gloating
Here's your piping-hot delivery of new "Snide Remarks," a saucy little number entitled "I Learned It from Watching You" that lists some of the more important things that the films of 2008 have taught us. It includes visual aids, which as you know is ...
Friday movie roundup – July 11
I don't really love anything this week. None of the new movies, I mean. I still love other things.
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" is fine. Visually spectacular, sometimes funny, kind of exciting, kind of meh. Likewise, "Journey to the Center of the...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend’ (1985)
Dinosaurs, or at least their cheap-looking equivalents, are at the heart of this week's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com. It's "Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend," a throwaway offering from Disney in 1985 that stars William Katt, best known f...
Some ‘WALL-E’ stuff
A couple of readers recently posted "WALL-E"-related questions that warrant attention...
I don't know much about the Oscars, but are animated films eligible for best picture? (I'm thinking of "Wall-E" here obviously).
Yes, any type of film is eligi...
Thanks for your bad movie recommendations
Thanks to the many people who offered suggestions for "Eric's Bad Movies" when I put out the call last week! There were some excellent recommendations that I have added to my Netflix queue. The people at Netflix, meanwhile, must think I've recently s...
Your obligatory ‘Snide Remarks’ column about gas prices
New "Snide Remarks"! Called "Gas Pains"! Topical!
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Wanted: ‘Eric’s Bad Movies’ suggestions
The "Eric's Bad Movies" feature at Film.com is three months old now, and it's time for me to request your help once again in coming up with appropriate selections for the column. Many of you gave suggestions when I first announced "Eric's Bad Movies,...
Eric’s Bad Movies: Patch Adams (1998)
There was a flurry of wrong guesses last week, but only one commenter got it right: This week's Bad Movie at Film.com is "Patch Adams," a wretched, manipulative sham that stands as the supreme example of Movies That Make Us Want to Smack Robin Willia...
The best films of 2008 so far
We've used up half of 2008, folks. We'd better start conserving or we'll run out of 2008 within six months, seven tops.
As of the midpoint, I've watched 225 movies so far this year. Holy crap, can that be right? Wow. I guess it is. At that rate, I...
Rotten Tomatoes minority report
Rotten Tomatoes, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, operates on a simple concept. It looks at all* the movie reviews on the Internet, translates each into either "Fresh" or "Rotten" (i.e., positive or negative), then tells you what percentage of c...
Friday movie roundup – July 1
The Friday movie roundup -- on a Tuesday?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!? It's crazy, I know, but Tuesday is when they're releasing "Hancock," the big Fourth of July blockbuster. Well, Wednesday, officially, except that nearly every theater that's showing it ha...
How religious is ‘WALL-E’?
(This post contains minor "WALL-E" spoilers.)
Many of you saw "WALL-E" over the weekend, and no doubt some of you noticed biblical themes in it. You can't name a main character "Eve" without invoking the Garden of Eden, of course; nobody could mis...
Thirst-quenching new ‘Snide Remarks’ perfect for a summer day
I'm back from my travels, and "Snide Remarks" is back with me. (I took it along as a sidekick.) This week's edition, "A Good Sense of Rumor," pertains to celebrities, and in particular the mocking of them.
Speaking of celebs, you might be interest...
Friday movie roundup – June 27
Whoa! Technical difficulties last night at EricDSnider.com headquarters. The server went down at the worst possible time -- Thursday night when I'm posting reviews and sending out "In the Dark" -- and prevented me from getting a lot of things done. B...
Eric’s Bad Movies: Kazaam (1996)
Well, I guess this was inevitable. Today's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com features "Kazaam," a movie that for some reason Shaquille O'Neal is the star of. I know! It doesn't make sense to me, either.
I think next week's movie, if you'r...
A funny Mormon Princess blog
I'm not a sociologist or historian, and the only subject I know anything about is movies, so take this with a grain of salt. But it seems to me that this blog, Seriously So Blessed, is hilarious. It's a near-perfect satire of a certain subculture of ...
When the status quo is threatened
Earlier this year there was a film called "Teeth," which you might remember hearing about even if you didn't see it. It's a horror comedy about a teenage girl who discovers she has teeth in her lady parts, and they act as a defense mechanism against ...
Friday movie roundup – June 20
Two big-budget comedies open today, and early word on both of them has been unpromising. Both are doing poorly on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment. And yet I liked them both -- one a lot, and one a little (but enough to lukewarmly recommend it). What c...
Eric’s Bad Movies: Bio-Dome (1996)
Anyone who is a fan of Pauly Shore better stop reading now!
OK, now that zero people have stopped reading, I'll tell you about this week's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com. It's "Bio-Dome," the last of a string of Shore comedies from the...
Shocking twist to the Paramount ban: Paramount had nothing to do with it!
For readers unfamiliar with the saga of the Paramount ban, I will recap it briefly before moving on to the surprising recent developments.
In July 2006, I went on an all-expenses-paid press junket for the film "World Trade Center." I then wrote a ...
Friday movie roundup – June 13
My laptop crisis has been solved. Whew! It turns out to have been just a confluence of coincidences -- no wifi signal, a dodgy DSL router, and an overtaxed CineVegas server -- that made it seem like my computer had lost all connectivity. The fact tha...
Eric’s Bad Movies: Glitter (2001)
Whoever guessed "Glitter" last week, you win a gold star! That is the subject of this week's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com. I had actually watched it once before, back in about 2002, when some friends and I threw a white-trash party, dre...
The return of dumb comments
One of the reasons I used to admire Defamer.com was that you had to basically audition to be allowed to post comments. If you weren't sufficiently literate, witty, and intelligent, they wouldn't let you post. (They seem to have eased up the restricti...
Generic blog headline for ‘Snide Remarks’
Just drove from Portland down to my brother's house in Stepford, Utah (which the signs call Eagle Mountain, but they're not fooling anyone). He just mentioned how annoying it is when writers leave "I" off the front of their sentences. Thought I'd try...
Friday movie roundup – June 6
First Texas, now the Zohan -- I can't mess with anything anymore! "Zohan," an overlong mixed bag, is the subject of my review at Film.com this week.
Then there's "Kung Fu Panda," which is pretty funny and very well animated. Not just one of the ch...
I don’t know what Twitter is, but I have it
Hey! Do you know what Twitter is? Me either! But I have an account there! You can follow me! My name is EricDSnider! Who knows, maybe sometimes I will think of a funny joke or an insight to share, and it will be one that can be explained in 140 chara...
Eric’s Bad Movies: The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
If I've watched "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" starring former funnyman Eddie Murphy, then you know it must be Thursday, and this must be another one of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com.
Technically, I should have reviewed this movie when it came o...
‘SATC’ commenters: Maybe not as dumb as they seem
My review of "Sex and the City" is among those that come up when you Google the film's title and click the "reviews" link, so it's been read by a lot of people who had not been to my website before. Some of these visitors have posted comments along t...
Drunk on love
Nassau County in New York has recently stepped up its efforts to deter drunken driving by providing news media with the names, hometowns, and mugshots of its DWI arrestees. The idea is that if drunk people know getting arrested means they'll be in th...
You’ll laugh; you’ll have nightmares
You know how sometimes when you're bored you'll find a photo of a man holding a baby and use Photoshop to put the man's head on the baby's body and the baby's head on the man's body? Or how sometimes you'll do the same thing with a picture of a lady ...
Monday stuff: ‘Snide Remarks,’ a late review, a birthday greeting
Hoo boy, if you read this week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "YM I So Tired?," you're definitely gonna wind up with a song stuck in your head. Just so you know.
Also of note: I saw "The Strangers" over the weekend, and it's actually pretty scary. We...
Friday movie roundup – May 30
Two major releases this weekend, and the studios stubbornly screened them at the same time on the same night. Thanks, movie people. I reluctantly chose "Sex and the City" because it's the higher-profile of the two, and also because I knew that if I d...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Speed 2: Cruise Control’ (1997)
As promised, this week's edition of "Eric's Bad Movies" at Film.com is "Speed 2: Cruise Control," the strangely Keanu-free sequel to the 1994 blockbuster. Despite its title, it contains very little speed and no control. There is a cruise, though, and...
Weezer’s ‘Pork and Beans’ video: a tribute to the YouTube Era
This has racked up a few million hits since being posted on Friday, so maybe you've already seen it. But if you haven't, and if you've spent any time at all over the last few years looking at the various famous YouTube videos, you should take a look....
A miniature new ‘Snide Remarks’ for your Memorial Day
For the holiday, in place of a regular-size "Snide Remarks" (or, more likely, in place of no "Snide Remarks" at all), we have a miniature one, entitled "The Signs of New York." There's no audio version because it's really short and mostly pictures.
...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Staying Alive’ (1983)
Two discs from Netflix sat on my desk, "Staying Alive" and "Speed 2." I had planned to do "Speed 2" for this week's Bad Movie and "Staying Alive" next week. Then it came time to watch one or the other, and I went with "Staying Alive." Why? Because --...
Thursday movie roundup – May 22
The Friday movie roundup -- on a Thursday? What kind of deviltry is this?! It is the kind necessitated by the Thursday release of a little film called "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which I quite enjoyed. It has the look and fe...
Hillary Clinton Discusses This Week’s ‘Snide Remarks’
(A message from Hillary Clinton.)
My fellow Americans, thank you for letting me take a few moments of your time to address the current situation.
There are some who would look at the comments posted about this week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "...
A big ol’ batch of Film.com articles
Here are some articles I've written for Film.com that might interest or amuse you, all posted since the last time I did one of these roundups. Which was a while ago, so some of these are kinda old now. But still.
'Untraceable's' European Facebook ...
This week’s ‘Snide Remarks’ requires ears
This week's "Snide Remarks" is a first: It's an all-audio edition! It's an interview with Indiana Jones, in conjunction with his new film that comes out on Thursday. I hope you appreciate what a coup it was getting him!
This week's "Snide Remarks"...
Friday movie roundup – May 16
The only wide release this weekend is "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," which I have reviewed at Film.com. I have also written at Cinematical about how the PG rating for "Prince Caspian" is astoundingly wrong. The level and frequency of vio...
Eric’s a guest at ‘The Watchers’ podcast
Do you enjoy listening to movie geeks talk about movies and TV and video games and movies? Me too! And the nice folks at Always Watching were kind enough to invite me on as a guest geek for this week's podcast (which is entitled The Watchers). You ca...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Delta Force’ (1986)
It was inevitable that I would do a Chuck Norris film at some point in the "Eric's Bad Movies" series, and today is the day! I made perhaps the obvious choice, "The Delta Force," about terrorists and Jews and motorcycles. The sequel is almost certain...
Mormon Horror Movies
Mormon Horror Movies
"Children of the Quorum"
"Friday the 31st" (aka "Home Teaching Day")
"Pet Seminary"
"Enrichment Night of the Living Dead"
"I Know What You Did Last Summer, and I'm Telling Your Bishop"
"The (CTR) Ring"
"Rosemary's Baby, ...
This is my first Twitter updat…
This is my first Twitter update! Want to know what I'm doing right now? I'm, um, updating Twitter. Is that how this works? Seems weird.
Eric Recommends: ‘Heyday’
"Heyday," by Kurt Andersen, is by far the best book I've read this year. Set in 1848, and enlivened by fascinating, carefully researched period details, it's a love letter to America's spirit of adventure and discovery. A young Englishman comes to Ne...
Polidori Chocolates: hand-made, high-quality, absurdly delicious
I've occasionally mentioned my friend Dawn Taylor, a fellow Portland film critic and one of my best pals here in the Northwest. Before she became a writer, she was a pastry chef, and she retains those skills to this day. She has made me birthday cake...
Eric’s CDs are available again! Sort of!
Did you know I wrote and recorded a bunch of comedy songs? Well I did! And they were on two CDs for a while, until I sold all of them (and printed some more ... and then sold all of those), and then they became, officially, "out of print." But now th...
Pregnant men are addressed in ‘Snide Remarks’
My trip to New York was fun, thank you very much for asking! I'm back now, and "Snide Remarks" is back, though it has nothing to do with New York. (That will come later, surely.) Today's edition is entitled "Brovaries, Duderus, Sirvix, Vaguyna, and F...
I’m grateful for the link, but…
I was browsing through the list of incoming links to this site and spotted one at CougarBoard.com, a discussion site for fans of BYU sports. Here is a screen grab of what the person wrote:
What? Not the "lightly liberal but still funny" part (...
Friday movie roundup – May 9
Here's the "Speed Racer" review!
Here's the "What Happens in Vegas" review (at Film.com)!
I watched them both Thursday night -- "Vegas" at 7 p.m., "Speed" at midnight -- and now I am tired. "Speed Racer" screened earlier in the week, when I was...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’
The sixth edition of the new "Eric's Bad Movies" feature is a doozy. My Film.com overlord said it's the best one yet! The movie in question is 1981's "Tarzan, the Ape Man," a misbegotten Bo Derek vanity project directed by her too-old-for-her husband...
‘Son of Rambow’ review is up; go read, then go watch!
"Son of Rambow" was just about my favorite movie at Sundance last year, and now it has finally hit theaters Stateside. (Apparently there was a delay in obtaining rights to use footage of a certain movie within it.) I love this movie! I've seen it twi...
Friday movie roundup – May 2
And the 2008 Summer Blockbuster Season officially begins with "Iron Man," a slick and funny comic book flick that gets the season off to a good start.
For counter-programming, the womenfolk get a big ol' piece of crap called "Made of Honor." It ha...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Beautician and the Beast’
This week's bad movie is a throwback to the days when people tolerated Fran Drescher. It's called "Beautician and the Beast." Enjoy.
I'm in New York now until Wednesday, taking a little vacation and seein' shows and crap. There will be no "Snide R...
Someone wants to get a hold of Bill Fichtner
When you e-mail me through the site, there is a notice that says this:
STOP: If you are going to ask Eric how to contact a celebrity, DON'T. Eric has no such information for ANY famous person. If you ask him anyway, despite this warning, Eric will w...
Eric Recommends: ‘Last One In’
"Last One In" is fictional, but author Nicholas Kulish drew on his real experiences as a journalist embedded with the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq to tell this engrossing, sometimes satirical story. The novel is about a shallow goss...
Eric Recommends: ‘I Love You, Beth Cooper’
"I Love You, Beth Cooper," by former "Simpsons" writer Larry Doyle, is a loving homage to the cheesy teen comedies of the 1980s, albeit set in the present and a book instead of a movie. (It is being made into a movie, though.) Denis Cooverman is a ne...
Let ‘Snide Remarks’ chase away the Monday blues
Got a case of the Mondays? I know I do! I have to watch "Made of Honor" tonight, and you know how I feel about pun titles.
Speaking of how much I hate pun titles, this week's "Snide Remarks" is called "Between Barack and a Hard Place," and while t...
Friday movie roundup – April 25
You know, I sort of forgot about "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay." I saw it at South By Southwest over a month ago, wrote my review, and then cast it from my mind. Yet here it is, opening in theaters today. Weird! It's like I'm living ...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo’
This week's bad movie is so famous that people refer to its title even if they haven't actually seen the movie. It's "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo"! There were some technical difficulties that kept the column from seeing the light of the Internet un...
The philosophy of ‘Toy Story’
Here is a conversation I had with my 3-year-old niece Lindsay last week:
HER: Do you like Buzz Lightyear?
ME: Yes.
HER: Do you like Woody?
ME: Yes.
HER: Does Woody like you?
ME: Uh, yes, I think so.
HER: Does he make you funny?
I think sh...
Your Monday delivery of ‘Snide Remarks’
Treadmills, border fences, and bilingualism are among the topics discussed in this week's edition of "Snide Remarks," which has the horrible title of "Defence Is De Answer." Seriously, that's one of the worst yet.
In other news, we switched to a n...
Friday movie roundup – April 18
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall," one of the biggest hits at this year's South By Southwest Film Festival, opens today in wide release. It should be another victory for the Judd Apatow team, and it really is very funny. There's a part where the guy is wor...
Eric’s Bad Movies: Spice World
This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com recalls a shameful period in our nation's history: the time when for some reason a lot of people liked the Spice Girls. Want to read my assessment of "Spice World"? Oh, yes you do.
When critics think alike
It's common enough for the majority of critics to have the same general opinion of a movie. But what about when they use the exact same words to express that opinion? That's what we call a freaky coincidence. And readers have alerted me to three exam...
Crazy movie coincidence!!!!!!!!!!
I watched two movies on April 1, "Nim's Island" and "Super Mario Bros." They are very different films, yet I just noticed they have two major things in common. One, they both feature characters who are germphobic (Jodie Foster in one, Dennis Hopper i...
Dumb comments for your reading pleasure
The vast majority of comments that people post on EricDSnider.com are relevant, reasonable, and useful. But a small minority are dumb. I have cataloged some recent ones here for your enjoyment. My favorite parts are in bold type.
DUMB COMMENTS POS...
Eric Recommends: ‘Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague’
"Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague," the third installment in Brandon Mull's excellent kid-lit fantasy series, is as delightful as the first two, full of the subtle wit and great storytelling that have made these books my favorite post-Harry-Pott...
‘Snide Remarks’ + Olympics = jokes about China
Did you hear they're having the Olympics this year? And that they're in China? Well, then you have the background necessary to understand this week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "The China Monologues."
And did you hear I'm conducting some surveys? W...
Friday movie roundup – April 11
It's another meh weekend for new releases as we drift through the doldrums before summer blockbuster season begins on the first day of summer (May 2).
The big ticket is "Prom Night," which has the same title but no other connection to the 1980 Jam...
Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Superman IV: The Quest for Peace’
Remember how I told you last week that I'd be writing a column for Film.com every Thursday called "Eric's Bad Movies"? Well I wasn't kidding! The second installment, addressing the 1987 debacle "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace," is now available for...
Immature jokes based on an unfortunate book title
Richard Wagner's four operas known as the "Ring Cycle" or simply "The Ring" are the subject of a book with the ill-conceived title "Penetrating Wagner's Ring." Inevitably, some smart-alecks have posted entendre-laden reviews of the book on Amazon.com...
Cranky letter to the editor
This letter appeared in The Oregonian on April 3, in response to coverage of the Bruce Springsteen concert in Portland several days earlier:
Bruce Springsteen's band member tells us that it is a rush to him to "turn your guitar amp up to 11 and scre...
The inhabitants of ‘Lost’ island are baffled, too
If you're a "Lost" fan, this video might be particularly amusing to you. It's simply a montage of characters saying "What?," presumably comprising every instance in seasons 1-3. (Don't worry, there are no spoilers.)
Note that while some of the...
An educational new ‘Snide Remarks’
This week's "Snide Remarks," entitled "Little-Known Facts," is exactly as advertised. Please to be enjoying it, won't you?
This week's "Snide Remarks," including the audio version, is here.
The audio version (i.e., the podcast) is also here.
Sub...
Friday movie roundup correction
I made a boo-boo with some of my linkage on Friday, and it prevented some podcast subscribers from getting their weekly dose of "In the Dark." Here is where the podcast can be found; it should now download properly to your podcast-collecting device.
Friday movie roundup – April 4
Three very diverse movies are opening in wide release today. If you're not the target audience for at least one of them, see your doctor.
I rather enjoyed "Leatherheads," George Clooney's screwball comedy about the early days of pro football. An e...
