Damn Hell Ass Kings

Getting Things Right: The LCBO On The Go App

Choosy Beggars — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:03 +0000

Every time I click “Publish” on a post that heavily features the LCBO, Ontario’s government-run liquor distribution monopoly, I am overcome with the sense that I am alienating a huge portion of our readership. But ...

No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn

Thursday Night Smackdown — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:41:38 +0000

Tuesday night insomnia: Sour, mineral tang of uncoated pills. Tepid tapwater washes it away. Soothing drone of informercials; snoring dogs. Counting rich mosaic of ceiling cracks.* Okay, never mind that first sentence. I was ...

Units

Glark — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:02:33 +0000

Looking up at an apartment block on West 97th.

LowRes 2011 Movie Awards: The Sounds

Low Resolution — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000

M. Ovie Reviews: The Woman in Black

Velcrometer — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:25:00 +0000

M. Ovie Reviews: The Woman in BlackDespite its Victorian setting (and the attendant plot-required trappings like trains, telegrams, and oil lamps) The Woman in Black is in every sense a ghost story in the ...

Dressing

Glark — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:02:44 +0000

This out of business blinds store on the Upper West Side must have closed in a hurry.

Doppelgänger

Glark — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:46:08 +0000

My Sith Lord name will be Darth Hoodieous.

LowRes 2011 Movie Awards: The Sights

Low Resolution — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:15:00 +0000

Hey, Pamie: “What Does a Non-Staffed TV Writer Do in February?”

Pamie — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:14:25 +0000

Aspiring television writers! Curious-about-writers people! Those of you sitting there thinking, “Uh, I know pamie doesn’t have a pilot, she’s not staffed, her latest book is turned in… so what the eff is she doing ...

LowRes 2011 Movie Awards: The Trailers

Low Resolution — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:48:00 +0000

2012 Oscar Picks

Mysterious Exhortations — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:23 +0000

I think I’ve seen too many of the movies to make a neutral set of predictions for the 2012 Academy Awards. I mean, I believe Hugo is going to win both of the Sound awards, ...

“Warrior:” The year’s most philosophically terrifying Oscar nominee

The Critical Condition — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:02:45 +0000

No joke: The worldview in Warrior, the fighting movie that scored an Oscar nomination for Nick Nolte, makes me shiver. It’s terrifying. And I just wrote about why at NPR’s Monkey See. Here’s an excerpt: ...

Advice Column: DeAnn’s Nursery

AB Chao — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:17:19 +0000

Today is a special edition of the advice column, for which I stopped taking submissions a few months ago. But this is a person I know in real life and so she gets a ...

Mini: Undead Casting

Extra Hot Great — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:08:11 +0000

Just because are favorite performers have passed on doesn’t mean we have to stop imagining what present-day films and TV series they would have been great in. Use the player above or download the podcast ...

Beggars Borscht

Choosy Beggars — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:00:45 +0000

You guys already know Harold, the hard working slow cooker that I have such limitless affection for. However, about a year ago, we welcomed a new small appliance into our household and I ...

Book I can’t put down

Pop Culture Junk Mail — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:30:00 +0000

I've been addicted to reading only books I can get on my iPhone Kindle app these days, but here's a 1300-page book that I bought as a used paperback and cannot put down, and stayed ...

Where’s Gael?

Pop Culture Junk Mail — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:07:00 +0000

I've been swamped lately with the new book and everything else, but wanted to point out the other ways to follow me online, in case PCJM falls into another slow streak.I'm on Twitter as ...

Fall TV, Part 2…um, in February

Judgment Call — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:06:00 +0000

"For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places. Absolute forgiveness, or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness."And this isn't a post about how ...

Awesome Shit That I Want Monday

Thursday Night Smackdown — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:45:06 +0000

Time sure does fly when you’re a Pinterest-addicted insomniac cripple. Between browsing photos of overly-designed interiors and watching infomercials for Susan Lucci’s Malibu Pilates, it’s like there’s no time at all between the hits of ...

Oscars Death Race: Less than a week

Tomato Nation — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:42:39 +0000

Oh, it's about to get ugly. …Okay, "uglier." Since last time: Rango Chico & Rita W.E. Adventures of Tintin War Horse Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Puss In Boots Pina The Muppets Best ...