slush

iron eyes cody would be balling his eyes out right now if he were around to see that mess that is the gulf of mexico.  more bad news came today that the 98 ton box with the dome on top that was lowered over one of the cracks gushing oil and polluting the gulf has [...]


pack your knives and go

to the head table mr. colicchio. tom colicchio won the coveted james beard award for national outstanding chef for his work at craft restaurant.  colicchio  beat out washington dc chef josé andrés of minibar and chief molecular gastronomist recently featured in a spot on 60 minutes with mr. sacred bird. here are the other winners [...]


life imitating ‘art’?

a while back we profiled kal penn, a celebrity that left hollywood in order to serve his country.  after a year or so, penn, of “harold and kumar” fame announced last month that he was done serving his country and would be heading back to lalaland to film a christmas themed harold and kumar movie.  [...]


it’s common census

so 10 years have passed and it’s census time.  we mentioned a while back that the form itself had some controversy because it included the classification term “negro” for old people that may better identify with the term.  certifiably crazy lady congresswoman michelle bachmann pictured here  recommended that people don’t fill out the census because [...]


maybe it’s a sign you should go kosher

some chap from england named toby ellis was making a late night snack after downing a couple of beers and he fell asleep while his bacon was cooking.  he woke up to find smoke in his kitchen and jesus staring back at him from the bottom of the frying pan (the burn marks had an [...]


wonder if george is worried

there was considerable uproar in hollywood this week after the academy of motion picture arts and sciences failed to honor farrah fawcett during the oscar broadcast on sunday.  according to the academy’s executive director, bruce davis, there were too many good people that died and, farrah was better known for her tv work than her [...]


some people don’t agree, jay

many were outraged by the new jay leno ad campaign announcing his return to ‘the tonight show‘ because it used the song “back where you belong”.  a (non) reader sent a link to the tags on hulu (where we used to be able to watch jon stewart clips). the tags are used to index jay [...]