A guy goes inside the confessional and says: “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “What did you do, my son?” “Yesterday I was walking along the beach at night, and I decided to explore a cave near the shore. When I turned on my flashlight, I saw two men having sex.” “Oh, so you…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Working Class Economist: JULY’S Asshole of the Month Is…Chic-Fil-A
I know today is technically the first day of August, but I got my calendar slightly confused a week ago and thought this would be the last Wednesday of the month for July…Whoops, but in a way it really worked out because by waiting a week a fantastic asshole of the month contender emerged: Chic-Fil-A…
Entertainment Editorial: July’s Book of the Month Club Pick is…
Multiple Choice! This month was tough for me. Ordinarily, I’ve just finished a book I’m very-excited about (like last month’s pick Gone Girl or March’s The Orphan Master’s Son) or I’ve read a book a while ago that fits some type of theme for the month (February’s Ready Player One being a tribute to geek…
Movie Review: “Ted,” The Inexplicable 200 Million Dollar Mega-Hit
By the time this review runs, “Ted” may very well have grossed 200 million dollars, and it will almost certainly hit that milestone no later than Wednesday and possibly finish its run with 250 million dollars domestic. In other words: WHAT THE FUCK? How did a lazy, haphazardly constructed movie that is essentially the same story…
Entertainment Editorial: My First Red Box Experience and a mini-review of “Friends with Kids”
As popular as they’ve become in recent years, I’ve actually never used a RedBox video rental machine, and probably never will again. Sure, there’s nothing technically “wrong” with them and they provide a nice service and everything, but I thought we moved beyond basic DVD rentals with OnDemand rentals and Netflix downloads. [What’s up with…
Mom Jokes: Alabama President
Alabamians will truly understand the humor here. The year is 2024 and the United States has just elected the first woman as President of the United States. A few days after the election, the president-elect calls her father in Birmingham and asks, “So, Dad, I assume you will becoming to my inauguration? “I don’t think so. It’s…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why I’m Not Afraid to Go to the Movies, and Neither Should You
So, roughly a week ago there was this grade-A asshole in Colorado who shot up a movie theater and killed 12 people all in some misguided delusion that he was the Joker instead of, you know, a loser. Now naturally this stirred up a media frenzy, and that story is about all we heard about…
Petty Issues: Kristen Stewart, Colorado Shooter, and My OWN Advertisers
So Kristen Stewart apparently “cheated” on Robert Pattison and people everywhere are saying she must die a slow, painful death. Come on, she’s 22 years old…is it really that likely she’ll marry the first serious boyfriend she’s ever had? Weren’t they bound to break up sooner or later and probably because of some random third…
Working Class Economist: An Author Event (Plus Q & A) With “The Price of Inequality” Economist Joseph Stiglitz
Welp, once again, I enjoyed a Barnes and Noble author event where the author of a new book drops by to discuss it, and eventually answer questions from the crowd. And tonight’s was none other than economist/writer Joseph Stiglitz. Now that name may not mean a whole lot to most people, but Stiglitz is something…
Entertainment Editorial: A Review of Broadway’s Notorious “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”
Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is not to be confused with the current Spider-Man movie. In fact, the Broadway Spider-Man is actually a less intimate, more flashy spectacle than the current movie, amping up the action and downplaying the emotional aspects of the Spider-Man mythology. The interesting (and entirely unexpected) thing is…it works. It…
Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises
Exciting, tense, beautifully crafted, and—–best of all—–an actual adult film in the summertime. This is the blockbuster those of us deprived of mature action-films have been waiting for, and it’s just a shame one asshole in Colorado had to overshadow it this weekend (but more about that later in the week). I don’t think any of that should be talked about…
Movie Review: Superhero Day Kicks Off with “The Amazing Spider-Man”
As the title of this post suggests there will be other superhero entertainment reviewed today (like the Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and what everyone is really waiting for “The Dark Knight Rises”) but for now let’s start with the movie that most people like but few people love “The Amazing Spider-Man” a…
(Non)-Interviews With The Non-Invisible: My “Interviews” with Heidi Klume and South Park’s Matt Stone
Welp, it was bound to happen. After nearly a year and a half of toiling away in anonymity, struggling to turn this blog into the next “great non-fiction book!” (I mean, we all know “Shit My Dad Says” was a masterpiece that Bubba’s Sex Tips could only dream of rivaling) Alabama Liberal has gone Hollywood….