Free Nellie Indeed

I'm no apologist for Big Media, but come on: giving the label chairman's home phone number to one's fans so they can help harrass him for you was not a very wise move, especially for a 21-year-old girl with a day job on Broadway.

All Your "Half-Blood Prince" Are Belong To Us

Your Narrator's progress in reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince since Friday night, as indicated by our patent-pending Potter-ometer™: Page 652 We are also using an easy-to-follow color coded alert system to denote the degree to which we are...

That Yellow Bastard

I have come back to complain that while Jason Kottke can be bothered to post a review of Miranda July’s Me And You And Everyone We Know, he apparently cannot be bothered to, like, post a review of this movie...

Missing the Point: Misogyny in Hip-Hop

I bring you more prime examples from the internets of people who have Missed The Point Entirely. First, Essence Magazine announced a “take back the night”-style campaign to protest misogyny in hip-hop. Then they ran some reactions from hip-hop luminaries...

Blockbuster: No More Late Fees

Something this holiday season must have made Blockbuster Video’s heart grow four sizes too big, as they’ve just announced that starting January 1, they are abolishing late fees (or as they cutely refer to them, “extended viewing fees”). The move...

No Returns on Opened Dogma

From our friends at Timothy McSweeney’s Blowjob Gone Awry, This Bible You Sold Me Is Clearly Defective and I’d Like to Return It, Please.: It seems to only sort of implicate the Jews in the Crucifixion, and instead suggests by...