In the most recent Esquire, Chris Jones extols the virtues of Jujubes, calling them “the only candy a man should eat.” This, of course, is utter bullshit, as are his claims that they should be pronounced “joo-joobs,” which is only slightly less precious than referring to Target as “Tar-zhay.” Jujubes…
Lindsay Lohan may or may not go to prison (again) because she may or may not have assaulted a staff member of the rehab facility she’s staying in. Her parents must be so proud. Oh, wait…never mind. Lohan, whose music career was brief and mostly predicated upon cleavage, joins a…
So we’re well into the Christmas season, and chances are good you’re getting a bit tired of Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby and the Time-Life Christmas collection in general. What had been a charming return to familiar holiday standards — and perhaps the only reason to voluntarily listen to…
Let’s face it: At some point during this holiday season, you’re going to need a drink. And when you arrive at the bar, you’re probably going to be near-frozen, because, you know, it’s winter — the time of year, when, so sings the song, the weather can be downright “frightful.”…
Rest in peace, Irvin Kershner, you director of RoboCop 2 and some film called The Empire Strikes Back. Born in 1923, he died over the weekend at the age of 87 and left behind an oeuvre of great filmmaking — including no small number of sequels. So it makes sense…
What with the Food Network and the proliferation of culinary personalities all over the place, do you ever wonder what those folks might do in a zombie apocalypse? They’d die, of course. And then become zombies themselves. But what then? They’d do what they’ve always done, obviously. They’d annoy the…
So October (or Monstober, if you’re into annoying nicknames) is the month of monsters, when we take an evening to support kids in dressing up like their favorite killing beast and threaten neighbors for candy, and adults in dressing like sexualized versions of traditional nightmares at parties. So it makes…
Okay, so you’re high. And you’ve got the munchies. And this is October, so there’s candy everywhere at the store. So you grab a bag of fun-sized fun, and you take it home to the buds with whom you share your bud. And you enjoy the candy, of course, but…
American Idol has been around for eight years and going on ten seasons. And really, anything has a natural life span, and television shows, for the most part, live theirs in close to dog years. Like Great Dane years. Which means, essentially, that American Idol is long in the tooth…
Granted, chili is something of a sacred thing — and the nature of that sacredness varies, depending on where you were brought up, and what your grandma ladled into a bowl. Still, there are some things that you can do to chili that seem like anathema, whether or not you…
A couple of years back, we covered some of TV’s worst theme songs, but the list was just too long not to revisit. In honor of the new TV season, let’s take a second look at more of the worst that TV theme songs have had to offer over the…
Television shows tend to be set on the coasts — in California or New York, usually. Anywhere else, and the show is often about that place as much as the characters: Miami in Miami Vice, Cleveland in The Drew Carey Show, or Cicely, Alaska, in Northern Exposure. So it is…
Some people are scared of Barbie and her seemingly anti-feminist position in pop culture. And those people are just plain terrified of Bratz dolls and their big-eyed whorishness. But some dolls… some dolls aren’t disturbing because of your social views, or for reasons having to do with the ways you…
Let’s be real for a moment: being a kid is dangerous business. You could swerve that two-wheeler into traffic, or fall out of that tree you’re climbing, or fly that kite into a power line. Just about everything that a kid does over the course of an average day is…
What’s for dinner? Whatever the answer, it’s probably got an ethnic origin–or a supposedly ethnic origin. Because many of the foreign foods that we all enjoy aren’t really very foreign at all. In other words, you can cross these ten dishes off your list, because, frankly, they’re all just as…
Marketing stuff to kids is pretty easy — which is why the government prevented tobacco companies from doing it — even subtly, supposedly accidentally — a few years back. McDonald’s Happy Meals are the latest to feel their knuckles rapped by this particular ruler — the obesity epidemic among kids…
As important as food is to the real world, there aren’t all that many foods unique to the fictional world…which might be a very good thing, considering the inherent dangers in these following fake-foods and drinks. Some dangers are slight, others more sinister, some plain disgusting. But in the end,…
Sometimes, even here in king-sized America, you just can’t eat the whole thing. Maybe it’s because you’re actually paying attention to portion control, or maybe your Mom still fixes meals to feed an entire farm crew who’s been toiling in the fields since before dawn. Either way, there will be…
Or ribs, or chicken, or fish, or steak, or any of the stuff that you normally think of when you consider what exactly to toss on the grill for the three-day weekend. If you’re limiting your grill to just hot dogs and ground beef, you’re just not optimizing your grill…
Sending your kid off to summer camp can feel pretty magical to parents — they get to have some fun, after all, and you don’t have to feel guilty about getting some long-overdue personal time. Maybe a short adults-only vacation, or just some quiet in the house instead of the…
Maybe you knew enough about Spider-Man not to embarrass yourself. And yeah, most folks know the basics of Batman. And seriously, even my grandma knows Superman well enough to carry on a decent conversation. But Iron Man? Even with the first movie under your belt, what with the fog of…
I don’t know who came up with the idea for this day. But seriously: genius. And why not celebrate it in a way that not only allows you to indulge your love of all things Star Wars, but also helps you identify who exactly is on your same Jedi-wavelength? Seriously,…
