Talk about “carbon dating”! I guess I’ve been asleep under a rock, but “dinosaur porn” is supposedly, as the young people today like to say, a thing. Last week, some desperate Web writer, likely digging for click bait on a slow news day, unearthed a once-obscure ...
What a delight to witness a sudden downpour of condemnation upon the head of David Gilmour! Turns out that little bugger Johnny Rotten was fibbing every time he wore his famous “I HATE PINK FLOYD” T-shirt, but I was one punk brat whose loathing for Gilmour’s group was no pose. ...
Neil Young is not, in fact, Canada’s most pompous and pretentious male singer-songwriter. That would be Burton Cummings, whose musical sins are elevated from venal to mortal because he wasted a strong, singular voice on hogwash. Young’s “instrument,” in contrast, is so ...
One afternoon very late in the 20th century, my then-best friend and I were walking back to the office with a coworker after lunch. Our colleague was mocking a new trend she"d just read about: granting unwed teen moms special recognition in high-school yearbooks so they wouldn"t feel ...
I"ll admit it: I"m unfashionably fond of Dr. Phil. At least early on"before he got caught up in shady stuff such as trying to brand his family as the Osmonds of advice"his folksy football-coach routine was a welcome palate-cleanser during the unicorns & rainbows "inner ...
A relic of a long-gone era of “happy endings” and “family viewing,” the real-life Love Boat’s final voyage was marred by a perfectly po-mo, Irony Age tragedy. Last week, two scrapyard workers were overcome by toxic fumes and died while breaking apart the old Pacific ...
"I"ve been married to a capitalist, a communist, and a fascist, and neither [sic] would take out the garbage," Zsa Zsa Gabor supposedly said. In the pre-Internet era, I"d attributed a shorter version of that quip to actress Elizabeth Ashley and used it as the epigram for the first ...
Am I alone in suspecting that most fallacious arguments"those tedious rules of the rhetorical road"were cooked up by stuck-up mediocrities to keep their betters from winning debates? Some of them are sound, of course. Tune in to any cable news program at random and you"ll behold ...
Yes, there really is a Burbank. As a kid, I assumed that the smallish California city with the “beautiful downtown” was just a cheesy Tonight Show punch line, not a real place. Today, all is not well in the “Media Capital of the World.” Its legendary aviation industry ...
People weren’t as shocked by the news of Michael Moore’s pending divorce as they were at the thought of some poor woman marrying him in the first place. The filmmaker-provocateur is almost a decade past his best-before date; his award-winning Fahrenheit 9/11 came out in 2004 and earned ...
