It’s not often a movie is brave enough to put the word “bad” in its title. Rarer still is the one that has an obnoxious advertising campaign, a script that’s short on laughs, and the most unlikable lead character I’ve seen in a movie this year…yet still manages to get me to go against my…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Entertainment Editorial: Drive In Movies
I try something the site never has before with this item: nostalgia. I can still remember the first time I went to a drive in theater. It was the Summer of 1996 and the Drive In had just opened–this was before the traditional movie theater went bankrupt and used as a squatter building for meth…
TV Review: Men of a Certain Age
Few shows on TV (and absolutely no shows on TNT) are better than Men of a Certain Age. And yet few shows on TV make me more hesitant to admit I watch them religiously. Sure, you might get cool points for talking up flashy violence like Sons of Anarchy or my personal favorite show Breaking…
Mom Jokes: A Woman’s Diary Vs. a Man’s Diary
Her Diary: Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it. Conversation wasn’t…
Sunday’s Sermon: What’s the Matter with Kansas? (And South Dakota and Indiana and…_
A couple years back there was a great non-fiction book written about how Kansas morphed from an outpost of liberalism into arguably the most conservative state in the country (take out Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Alabama and it isn’t so arguable). It also covered how residents of Kansas routinely vote against their own economic interests…
Larger Editorial: Glenn Beck’s Final Show, So Long Shit Bag
Today, we have a special treat…if you count water boarding as a treat. I will be watching Glenn Beck’s final show, the first I’ve seen from start to finish. Minute 1: Beck is outside the New York City studio his show is filmed at. Okay, I can do this. I’ve got a Snapple and an…
Petty Issues
While watching the fourth season premiere of True Blood I found myself saying “What the fuck am I watching?” and not in a good way. Fairies chasing people in the desert while shooting white bursts of lightening, Jason leading a cult of diseased looking children, Tara as a lesbian? At a certain point, it tips…
Working Class Economist: The Private Sector Wants Gay Marriage
Republicans like to pretend that the private sector can solve any and every problem. The post office loses one of your packages? Privatize it. Public education getting you down? Dismantle the whole budget and give out private school vouchers. Ron Paul even believes the Civil War wasn’t necessary and the private sector could have solved…
The Fast Food Critic: Movie Theater Popcorn
Today I take a cheat in a way by reviewing something that isn’t technically fast food. Still, since I don’t do this feature most weeks, a cheat is better than nothing. The item today is the internal scourge of the movie theater: theater popcorn. It’s greasy, it’s smothered in enough salt to cure a ham…
Entertainment Editorial: Movie Trailer Hell
By that title I mean being stuck in a movie theater while a trailer plays that you have seen, approximately, 4,000 times. It isn’t just that the preview is bad, it’s that it’s BECOME bad because of the sheer volume of times you’ve been forced to watch it. Though if the trailer really sucks seeing…
Mom Jokes
All arrivals in heaven have to go through a bureaucratic examination to determine whether admission will be granted. One room has a clerk who inputs computerized records of what each applicant did on his or her last day of life. The first applicant of the day explains that his last day was not a good…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Midnight in Paris
Today brings the latest gritty slice of life drama from Woody NoSnitchin’ Allen, Midnight in Paris. I’m just fucking with you, it’s Woody’s latest slight comedy that doesn’t seem to take place in a world that uses money to pay for anything. All of the characters are well off (even the historical hallucinations Owen Wilson’s…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Nothing Wrong with a Green Card Marriage
With all the hullabaloo about gay marriage, I feel it’s time for Bubba to take a more traditional stance: firmly in favor of green card marriage. After all, marriage should be between a desperate, impoverished woman with no options, hellbent on staying in a first world country and a socially retarded man unable to get…