Hello fellow members of the I.F.F. It’s time that we talked about Jersey Shore. Before we start I just want you to know that I would three-way-kiss all of y’all. I also want to direct you to a news story from last week about Snooki being arrested for drunk and disorderly, goof-ass conduct in South […]
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Project Runway Wrap Up
Hey dudes,Marjorie is out of town for the next couple of weeks so you’re stuck with me. First I’m going to join Marjorie on the record in saying I wholly support the new 90 minute Project Runway. Now that the episodes have more room to breathe we’re getting details that there wouldn’t have been time […]
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Blood Bone-Nation: Hitting the Ground
Vampire burrito? For me? Half-assed True Blood discussion group COMMENCE! Here’s the deal, fangers: I was out late late last night drinking and now I’ve only got a ten minute window to write up this blog post on my lunch break. So let’s hit it fast and hard! This episode left me with blue balls […]
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Jersey Shore Ephemera: What is Hooking Up?
It’s Friday evening and work is over. Why not spend a little more time in this wading pool filled with cool, refreshing cultural afterbirth? Fellow freelancer Andrew R Tonry emailed me today to express a similar passion for Jersey Shore and its train-wreck awesomeness. He also passed on this New York Times article profiling train-wreck […]
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Jersey Shore Wrap-Up: “Let’s Hit the South”
To my mind Jersey Shore is the ultimate culmination of the Real World style of reality television. Its characters (yeah, they’re characters) completely embrace and thrive on the artificiality of the medium, drawing energy from it. There is no need for the producers and editors to manufacture drama because these juiced-up, super-tan twenty- and thirty-somethings […]
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Condemn or Allow (Nerds Only Edition): Thor Trailer
I read a good deal of Marvel growing up but I was never into Thor. For whatever reason his trademark superhero angst© about getting exiled from Asgard didn’t grab me in the same way as Spider-Man’s, Luke Cage’s, Wolverine’s, etc . Like, Peter Parker was just a dude unlucky enough to get bit by a […]
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Blood Bone-Nation: I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
It’s time for our True Blood discussion group everybody! Follow me behind the jump! “Thissss is for Louie, fanger!” *Smack!* Oh man you guys. I’m fucking pumped because I’m pretty sure this was the best episode of the season so far and one of the best in True Blood‘s whole run. Wanna disagree with me? […]
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On the Revelations From Glee’s Comic-Con Panel
I don’t know why Glee is at Comic-Con but they are and co-creator Ryan Murphy is being dropping spoilers like they’re hot about season two. I’m at a loss to caption this As I grumbled in my weekly Glee updates over the last season, I’ve been sorta disenchanted with the series’ apparent decision to push […]
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Taiwanese CGI News Takes On the iPhone 4
You’ve seen a Taiwanese news channel sum up Justin Bieber’s war with the internet in stunning CGI. You’ve seen a Taiwanese news channel do the same for the Al Gore sexually assault case. Those videos were great (and informative) but neither of them featured Steve Jobs cutting off Apple users’ fingers with a lightsaber. Rectified: […]
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Blood Bone-Nation: Trouble
It’s Monday again and time for our weekly True Blood discussion group! How do you say that in Viking? playing with sticks and balls It seems like every season of True Blood spends its first half setting the table and its second half actually eating. I think we’re getting to the first course. After an […]
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New Mel Gibson Rant For Your… *sigh*
I gotta be honest: yesterday I thought these Mel Gibson tapes were the funniest thing ever. Today? The shtick is feeling a little one-note. My mind has already made the adjustment from thinking of Mel Gibson as a Road Warrior, Patriot and drunken anti-Semite to thinking of Mel Gibson as a complete lunatic. I feel […]
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Some Belated Thoughts on Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers
I’d like to take a little of your time to talk about Trash Humpers if I may. May I? I know I’m late in getting around to it by a few weeks — which is a few decades in Internet Time — but for a film that was thought out so minimally I really can’t […]