Capitulation Nation
Oh, you’re mad at Sony for killing its movie? Hold on. It’s hard to type when I’m laughing this hard. I wouldn’t have gone to the theater to see The Interview, but I probably...
Category: Entertainment
Life before Angry Birds
I remember a time I could sit down to a dinnertime pork chop and not think, “Serves you right. You never should’ve thought that helmet would save you.” If I could remember it more...
Anna Nicole and the November iPhone photo project
I did the math. If I do all I need to do between now and the time I have a break on December 9th, I should have about 10 minutes a day for Rapid...
Journalism and the Palmetto State of play
Union County, South Carolina was barely on the map in 1993. There was no easy way to get there by interstate highway. It wasn’t even the place drivers ended up by accident. It was...
Balloon Boy is your fault
This is your fault. Certainly, there’s a lot of blame to go around, but most of the people who are pointing fingers at the Henne family tonight should turn off their TV and look...
I was driving down the road one day…
“I know what this song is about!” my son announced proudly from the backseat. We were in a bit of a hurry, so I didn’t steal a look at the XM display. I’d never...
An open letter to Brett Favre
Dear Brett, It’s that last drive of the 2008 season, isn’t it? You can’t get it out of your head. You made your triumphant return in a city that didn’t understand you, showed them...
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There’s a very important class that famous people take. You probably don’t know about it because you have to be famous before you’re allowed in the Circle of Lust. I only know about it...
Seth Rogen and the Eddie Murphy Dilemma
It was a rainy Friday night and I hadn’t spent the mortgage money on a feature film in a few weeks. The wife wasn’t feeling well and the boy was itching for something to...
Bad idea Friday
This is all I have time for today. If there is a Top Ten catch phrase in my family, it’s “bad idea jeans.” My brother just found this older SNL video on Hulu and...
Uruguay? That’s random!
The girl who cuts my hair knows I keep an odd travel schedule. She looked at me in the mirror last week and asked, “Got any trips planned?” “Going to Uruguay on Sunday,” I...
Camouflage and podcasts
My son is fascinated with the military. A few weeks back, we pulled into Aunt Sue’s, a country meat and three in Pickens County. A convoy of soldiers pulled in behind us. They ate...
Unmoved
My first movie memory comes at age six and half. It was the summer of 1980 and I was in the backseat of my dad’s black mid-70s Monte Carlo. I don’t know if the...
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Yesterday, somebody I know told me, “One of my friends just sent me an e-mail saying the Greenville Police are now writing tickets, even if you are going less than 5 miles per hour...