Check out this awesome office floor! Probably the coolest office ever. It’s public relations firm Lambert, Edwards & Associates in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I’m lobbying for the Scrabble board floor for our new office downtown (hint, hint). We could play with sheets of scrap paper! Brushing up on my two-letter words now, as to beat […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Sing-Along Horrors
Fleur de Lethal Cinematheque‘s sing-out Little Shop of Horrors: Depending on your level of masochism, this either sounds like a blast or an event akin to eating glass. You know who you are. I fall more on the fun side. Help the sing-along crew at Fleur de Lethal celebrate their third anniversary with a screening […]
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Of Disney and Prostitution
Janice Shapiro’s Bummer Doesn’t Quite Live Up to its Name
Janice Shapiro’s short story collection, Bummer, doesn’t quite live up to its name.
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Huddled in the Gloam
The Friendly Ghosts of the Handsome Family
The friendly ghosts and playful repartee of the Handsome Family.
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For Once, Something Good Happens on Buffy’s Brithday
Birthday Ruiner Buffy Summers’ birthdays have been historically terrible (Angel loses his soul after they have sex; Giles betrays her; Giles gets turned into a demon; Dawn sets the house on fire; Dawn enslaves her friends and steals a leather jacket; Dawn is still alive). But all that changes this year! Celebrate the Buffster’s 30th […]
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Holy Half-Off, Batman!
It’s a Martin Luther King Jr. Day sale at Cosmic Monkey, with 50 percent off back issues of comics! Plus, 25 percent off everything else! Plus, something intriguing called the $1 comic boxes of greatness! Sale starts this weekend. Cosmic Monkey Comics, 5335 NE Sandy, 11 am-7 pm Got my eye on some stuff:
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Win Tickets to Grindhouse’s Maniac
Thanks to Dan Halsted at Grindhouse Film Festival you can win two tickets to see 1980’s sleazy gorefest Maniac this Saturday, January 14, 7:30 pm, at the Hollywood Theatre. Here’s how you can win: Email me no later than 1 pm tomorrow (Friday, January 14), and make sure your subject line is “Tear the Life […]
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So Gay
And Not in the Good Way in The Dilemma
And not in the good way in The Dilemma.
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Have I Got a Dance Flick for You!
Like dance movies? Hate all the expository plot? The Reel Music Fest‘s got you covered with a great film called NY Export: Opus Jazz. It’s a new rendition of Jerome Robbins’ 1958 ballet, with a bunch of hot young things from the New York Ballet doing their best jazz dancing. Basically it’s like the finger-snapping […]
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World’s Longest Cat! Coming Here!
STEWIE IS COMING TO TOWN! I would wear him as a scarf. Stewie’s a cat from Reno who just won the record for the world’s longest cat. He’s a Maine Coon who’s over four-feet long. He looks so stretchy. I really want to pet him. Twenty people could pet him at once! Too bad he’s […]