Why I Hate Perez Hilton

It’s all fun and games when you’re covering celebrities, when you’re reporting on gossip — essentially, when you’re saying shit that can’t be fact-checked, that can’t be proved or disproved, the kind of things you can chalk up to “an unnamed source.” That’s fine; that’s all well and good.
Where Perez exposes himself is posts like [...]

Faceblank

So I’ve fallen victim to the whole Facebook thing, and seeing as I’ve never really gotten the whole social networking thing before, I’m not sure why I started all of a sudden. (I do know that I must have instantly made the whole thing uncool when I sent a friend request to my 19-year-old niece.)
I [...]

‘Superbad’ Junket Meltdown

This is obviously fake; the Apatow crew is well known for producing LOTS of faux viral clips (remember Michael Cera playing Seth Rogen’s part in ‘Knocked Up’?). I really, really wanted to post this on the work blog, but the language is just too coarse for that audience. Here, it’s fair game. Enjoy.
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Another Mini-Piece Up at Spinner.com

Ahem.
Backslash end shameless self-promotion.

How We Spent Our Saturday Night

I grew up going to bingo nights in local church basements with my mom and grandmother (Saturdays at St. Anns; Thursday at St. Pauls); when I was younger I’d bring coloring books and crayons and a Walkman and cassette tapes (oh, Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack, you were such a winner) and I’d help the workers collect [...]

Momentary Soapboxing

So I think a lot of people sort of know, by now, that I currently write for two blogs; this personal all-about-me blog, and a really cool corporate blog; and anytime I’m leading the charge on the corporate blog, the front yard of this blog tends to get a little overrun with weeds. That kind [...]

Oh, Cruel Channel Guide; or 30 Seconds Inside My Brain

What’s this?
The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll?
Could it be?
Could it …
A new season?!?
Dagger!
It’s a repeat, but it’s any episode I’ve never seen. Oh CTGWCSBCD and ATSM and FM … you are all so young. But not so innocent, really.