I am very pleased that an institutional alternative has arisen to the mainstream pop-country establishment of Nashville. We went to a cookout yesterday at the nearby horse-and-dining club, and the “contemporary hit country” the DJ played was slick pop-rock, identifiable as “country” only by accent, grammar and subject matter (horses, …

I love these crazy old bodybuilders and fitness freaks – they carved out a niche in the culture when bulging muscles and a serious fitness regimen was considered freakish and obsessive, and they were inventors and entrepreneurs as well. The first “Mr. California” and inventor of the Universal exercise machine, …

(with apologies to Bobby D)

This is the sickest, most twisted, funniest sociopathic animation since South Park, ridiculing the wretched air of unreality prevalent in “reality” television, character stereotypes, and the whoring of senationalism, as well as a deft parody of animation styles and writing. Eight cartoon characters, from all over the animated universe, live …

Wharton says they are both full of shit.

With almost 19,000 posts in just over two years, I shudder to think how many dead links we have festering in our archives – imagine trying to fix them all. This sounds like a blogger’s dream come true: Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and …

Britney Spears, weary after two failed attempts at marriage this year — the first in January to childhood friend Jason Alexander (not THAT one) in a “surprise” (intoxicated) Las Vegas wedding that was described as a “joke” and annulled 55 hours later, the second just last weekend to “dancer” Kevin …

Nothing quite like The Onion’s 2004 Election Guide

Suddenly it dawned on those with a more progressive agenda than the current denizens of the White House that there are a shitload of young people out there who probably lean toward their way of thinking (“progressive” change is for the young and the old – people in the middle …

Why Cat Stevens had to go.