New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
His success in roles as violent vigilantes and steely-eyed psychopaths notwithstanding, Christian Bale's life as a child of hippie parents couldn't be more different from those of his characters. His mother, Jenny, was a circus clown and his...
PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Gunplay Jorge Vega, story Dominic Vivona, art Christopher Priest, prose Gunplay One of my favorite westerns is an older movie Rio Bravo. I’m sure you’ve probably heard of it. One of the things I love about it is the use of inherent inferiority in the Wild West as a way to push the heroes as something special. More so in [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) and Kam Sang Company announce that Sheraton Garden Grove-Anaheim South Hotel has opened its
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
IF CLOTHES make the man, then they are even more important for the aspiring politician. Gordon Brown's rumpled suits have always suggested reliable bank manager.
Jamaia Star (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
The search is still on for four fishermen who went missing while at sea in the Pedro Bank area of St Elizabeth on Saturday. Missing are 41-year-old Wayne Robinson, also called 'John Wayne' of Little Park; Gary 'Curry Belly' Bennett..
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Red Sox couldn't get out of Orange County fast enough. After last night's third straight loss to the muscle-flexing Angels (the clash of American League titans served as a warm-up act for the vaunted ESPYs) the Sox trudged toward John Wayne Airport where they were scheduled to fly to Seattle.
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
AIRPORT bosses yesterday refused to change their name to Robert Burns International.
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Weird news and odd events from around the globe.
The Tiger in Somerville (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
M&M: McCain & Mitt. (Was pitched as early as January.) The New York Times today: And if the initial rapprochement between the two men seemed a tad forced after Mr. Romney pulled out of the race last winter, something approaching warmth seems to be entering their relationship now. At a fund-raiser in Albuquerque this week, Mr. McCain [...]
House of Eratosthenes (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
The “Lou Grant” effect is a creation of Bill Whittle, who confesses to having rambled a bit in this pre-Iraq-invasion essay. To do as fair a job as I can summarizing it, the Lou Grant effect is this: The more capable a made-up character is at grappling with hard-boiled reality, telling good apart from evil, [...]
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
This may not seem very noteworthy to you, but trust me, almost anything is more entertaining than watching Trey Hillman leave Zach Greinke out there to die. Earlier in the day, Mission Of Burma’s Roger Miller thanked a Pitchfork Festival audience for the state of Illinois “giving us Barack Obama”. I don’t wanna accuse Rog of [...]
The Ultimate Insult (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
I always think that John Wayne Gacy’s mugshot can make almost anything creepier. Still, it has never worked so well as it did with this Batman viral marketing thing.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Just in case you haven't seen it yet today, this. is. awesome. And it's not even Photoshop Phriday! Hey, Sun-Times - who put this cover (that's John Wayne under that Blagojevich face, btw) together? Give that person a raise. Who else could you Photoshop the Governor as? Mighty Mouse? Opie? Governor LePetomaine? Forrest Gump? A Blago v. Daley Spy vs. Spy poster? The possibilities are endless. Man,...
apostropher (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
As much as I think Elizabeth Dole is a bubble-headed, do-nothing, empty suit completely and totally out of her depth pretending to be a senator, I have clung to the small comfort that she is, at least, a mighty improvement...
Hog On Ice (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
For a Weekend in the Hamptons I was looking at the Drudge Report this morning, and I saw a photo from the new Batman movie, and I had to ask myself: have gays ruined Batman for everybody? The photo shows...
