Blogger Nick Baumann writes about an unsettling provision in the GOP’s “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act”: Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law. For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions […]
Dave Bow
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“Assassin” Defined
The Mechanic Is a Movie for Stupid People
The Mechanic is a movie for stupid people.
Posted inFashion
Lady Gaga Smells Like Blood and Semen
According to Fashionista and our always reliable pal, Anonymous Source, Lady Gaga has requested that makers of her first consumer fragrance make it “smell of blood and semen“. That’s where the news bulletin ends. Do with it what you will. Gaga later made a press conference where she demanded that all attending “look at [her]”, […]
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Vinny Vidi Vici – Jersey Shore to Film in Italy!
I’ve already written at length about how hard I’ve fallen back in love with America’s most infamous Guido gorilla juicehead meatballs. What was once pure armchair anthropology has become a self-referential experiment as, week to week, the cast of Jersey Shore try and build their brand by coining new catchphrases and acting like lunkheads so […]
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America’s Next Homeless Star!
Laugh Now, But One Day it Might Be You
Laugh now, but one day it might be you.
Posted inTV
Jersey Shore – It’s “Good” Again!
For season two of MTV’s televised taste vacuum that is Jersey Shore I did weekly writeups here on Blogtown out of a real passion for trash TV and a burning need to muse about this show somewhere and unpack all the feelings it makes me feel. (My friends = not interested) The first season of […]
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“Sorry for slavery. We didn’t mean to.”
it’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2011 and America’s troubled (read. super racist) past is still a touuuuchy subject. Maybe not for long. Reliably weepy slash screamy slash insane v-blogger CopperCab has returned to his screaming alley to issue an apology on behalf of white people everywhere (a group that CopperCab does not affiliate […]
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Michael Chabon Weighs In on the Mark Twain Whitewashing Issue
Try and remember last week when that professor at Auburn University announced he was releasing an edition of Huckleberry Finn where the word “nigger” was replaced with “slave”. He also, for the record, plans on replacing the word “Injun” with “Indian” (OK!) and “half-breed” with “half-blood” (What? No!). Still angry about it? Me too! You […]
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Love Hurts
Blue Valentine: An Autopsy of a Marriage
Blue Valentine: an autopsy of a marriage.
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I’m Going Out
What Is It? I Dunno!
Playing by Crispin Glover’s frustrating rules.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Provoking and Evoking: My Interview with Crispin Glover!
Last week I got the chance to “interview” Crispin Glover before he comes to Cinema 21 next week (click here for show details and booking)! I put “interview” in quotes because it was more like a short answer test. Glover prefers to do this kind of thing over email so he can answer the questions […]
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Good Morning Simpsons Porno!
The first thing the internet gave me this morning was this relatively SFW trailer for a live-action Simpsons porno courtesy of the good people at Hustler. I am spreading the misery. The film is centered around Marge and Homer making a sex tape (how unnervingly good is that Homer impression?!) It also somehow features Moe, […]