Los Angeles was, in 1879, a city of about 11,000 people. The roads were dirt, the buildings were wood. But there were oranges there, and later on they found a way to harvest and market people’s fantasies, and the city grew from this:
to this.
This is the story told in Historic Photos of Los Angeles, a [...]
Ah, Invasion from Inner Earth. Never sat all the way through it, and growing up there were ample opportunities to do so.
Some correction to Dan’s fine and funny previous article: Invasion From Inner Earth is not Canadian, visual evidence to the contrary. It was made in and around Rhinelander, Wisconsin, a frozen outpost near the [...]
Skot managed to get out to a movie theatre and catch WALL-E; me, I been busy. Okay, not so much, but I’m not going to surround myself with kids under any circumstances, no matter how good the movie is. And anyway, I managed to get my paws on something that I had long considered the [...]
Just checked out WALL-E. It was a wonderful animated film, maybe the best one to date from Disney/Pixar.
It does something no Pixar film has yet done: mix live-action inserts into the realistically animated scenes. WALL-E, the incredibly cute robotic protagonist of the piece, has a job compacting garbage in the ruins of an abandoned city [...]
NBC.COM WILL MAKE “TENS OF MILLIONS” OF DOLLARS IN 2009
And NBC.com executives will be 20 times sexier than they already are!
FAMILY GUY IN RUNNING FOR EMMY
There is no punchline that can do this headline justice.
JEFF GOLDBLUM TO JOIN CAST OF LAW AND ORDER
Goldblum will replace one of the cast members on one of the 25 [...]
Come September, guess what you won’t be able to pick up at Starbucks? Arabica roast? Nope. Oddly-shaped commuter mugs? Uh uh. CDs by artists your parents like? Skidoosh! You’re right!
Yep, in September Starbucks is getting out of the music distribution business, at least in the signifigant way it had been. Those big racks of music? [...]
Box Office Weekly #120 (MP3 - 15 MB - 21 min)
In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: surfers and their natural enemy, photographers!… cartoons, as usual, are better than real life… and in this week’s commentary I lament George Carlin. All this and the battle of the lame comedies, today on [...]
This weekend George Carlin died at the age of 71, which is reasonable. What’s unreasonable is that he was performing edgy, hip standup at that age. I mean what the hell! At that age you generally take a part in a family sitcom as the lead character’s eccentric dad; you do NOT somehow shock people [...]
As promised, the Worlds Ugliest Dog contest was held this last weekend in Sonoma. I give you the winner - Gus!
True to form, Gus is a Chinese Crested breed, hairless except for a bizarre doggy mohawk, skinny as hell and unable to hold his tongue in his hideous head. The winners of the contest have [...]
Back on April 26th– nearly two months ago– I reviewed The Love Guru based on one three-minute trailer shown on NBC. In fact, I seem to remember saying something like it “looks like one of the worst movies to come along in quite a while.”
From the IMDb:
Mike Myers’s The Love Guru , which is being [...]
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