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I'm sure by now most of you have read Devin's article about the fallacies of religious belief. If you haven't, why haven't you? It's right here. Just click it. You know you want to click it. It's so easy. Maybe his reasoning makes sense to you, or maybe… Continue reading
Do you remember the glory days of web-based movie news? The thrilling tales of adventure as unemployed Australian twenty-year-olds snuck onto the blue screen sets of the new Star Wars film. The glorious rumors about Evil Dead 4's imminent lensing, Sean Penn's… Continue reading
I remember when I saw my first sandworm. It's vagina dentate maw seduced me from the cover of The Dune Encyclopedia at the public library. I was hiding from a homeless gentleman who wanted to "choose my own adventure" while my mother worked on her… Continue reading
I'm struggling to write this now, as I've just lost a dear friend. To protect his family's privacy, I'll call him Steve Applewhite. Steve was a video game designer by trade, though his interests were broad. You were just as likely to find him digging up rare… Continue reading
I look at the whale lying next to me in bed and consider how the rising sun shines from my window behind her. How the light swaddles her and contrasts with her pearl-white skin so the ring around her blowhole seems almost an inky black. I cup my hand into the… Continue reading
By now you've probably heard that Parker Posey will be providing the voice for Optimus Prime in next summer's Crashin' In: A Transformers Adventure (previously known simply as Transformers 2, or T2: Judgment Day). And if you haven't heard this, it's only… Continue reading
Amongst several other jobs of varying secrecy, I work as a fact checker for a pornographic playing card company. I won't tell you which one exactly, but it's in the top three. (Okay, it's Queens of Spades. Happy now?) Being a fortune something-hundred… Continue reading
Look, there's nothing too silly about that picture of the The Minutemen. Aside from maybe their name. Sure, that's what they're called in the comic book, but times change. The name's associated more these days with a ragtag bunch of Midwestern vigilante… Continue reading
The Internet Movie Database (NAACP) estimates the budget for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (MUFON) at 125 million dollars, which, at today's exchange rate, translates to roughly four Euros. (For those of you still bitter over Europeans… Continue reading
As a jury member at this year's Cannes Film Festival, I can let you in on some of the behind the scenes machinations. First of all, yes, Sean Penn always looks like that. Maybe he smells something horrible, but don't you dare suggest it's his upper lip.… Continue reading
I'm the one on the left, and that's Norman Mailer on the right. This picture was taken before he crossed me, of course. Any later and he would have been in the grave. Ask anyone at Mailer's funeral what happens when you cross me. But we had some good times… Continue reading
