Not with a bang but a whimper.
That’s T.S. Eliot, yo, from “The Hollow Men” (1925). It’s also a voiceover spoken by Justin Timberlake in Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales. It’s out this week on DVD, affording Canadians an opportunity to watch yet another Richard Kelly movie not available to our citizens on first run in an [...]

I’m gonna warn you, straight-up, that I don’t expect you to watch this lying, pig-ignorant bitch for any longer than it takes for you to get to your mouse and click STOP before your ears completely bleed out, but just in case you were wondering whether the controversy regarding Republican Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern’s [...]

Jeff Whitty on Jay Leno
(no, not “Jeff Whitty on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”)
Being one of those homosexuals who flunked Gay101, I was late to the Avenue Q train, and therefore became aware of librettist Jeff Whitty long, long after I should’ve. I did manage to catch him on the Tony Awards telecast, accepting [...]

Isaac Asimov in the year I was born.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov, 21 January 1980, Newsweek

A+B=C (Happy Anniversary, Champ)

I mean, if I wasn’t a big homo, that is. Abbie Smith describes herself as a “graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations.” She’s also a kick-ass, take-no-prisoner opponent of irrational “thinking” and lying liars.
An Apology to Sally Kern:
I would like to use this post as an [...]

B-movie character actor, former Nixon speechwriter, game-show host and noted homophobe Ben Stein has loaned his name, voice and media presence to an execrable piece of propaganda called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
Merely looking at the extended trailer, below, reveals quite plainly that this endeavour is artistically bankrupt through its clumsy and offensive imagery paired with [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEgHyU5kL4I

So, the B-52s* have returned after a 16-year absence. You either like them or you don’t. I love ‘em. Album out next week.
Private property, hippie be quiet!
Your peace-sign tee-shirt could cause a riot!
*They actually got rid of that dumb grocers’ apostrophe. And Cindy’s back!

The Crab Nebula From Hubble
From Astronomy Picture of the Day:
This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original [...]

President’s Choice Grillades de Papa (Literally: Grill Dad)

Mmmmm, Cock Sauce
Both of these condiments were observed in the Value Mart at Manulife Centre in downtown Toronto. If truth be told, I kinda think Glark might’ve already posted a photo of the latter. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, y’all.