So here we here are in midseason, and although many of last Fall’s shows didn’t get cancelled because of their decent ratings, I can’t help but think the new crop of youngsters looks more promising (The River, Touch, Awake). After taking a step back, I can honestly say that none of the Fall’s new shows…
Movie Review: “Paradise Lost 3,” A Documentary You Wouldn’t Believe if it Were Fiction
I can practically hear some of the people reading that headline. “What is this movie and when did it come out?” “And how is there three of them when I’ve never heard of the first two?” This riveting documentary didn’t technically get a theatrical release and is actually part of a trilogy of docs HBO…
Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I know this movie technically came out last year and if people haven’t watched it by now they probably won’t, but still it’s nominated for a few Oscars and might even win one (but won’t) so why not review it? This movie is about a boy with autism who loses his father (Tom Hanks) in…
Mom Jokes: Donations
A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington, DC . Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?” “Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them…
Entertainment Editorial: Super Bowl Commercials
Unlike most people, I actually hate commercials. Well, actually that would make me 100 percent like most people, but I guess the big difference is that I also don’t like the commercials during the Super Bowl. Let me put it this way: when you fundamentally don’t like dog shit on your shoe, it doesn’t matter…
Auburn, Alabama University, and NY Giants…What Do These Winning Teams Have in Common? Me
It’s become a pretty weird irony that I might be the-least-interested-in-football-heterosexual man in America, and yet, everywhere I go, winning teams follow. First, my alma mater Auburn won the National College Championship last year (we’ll call it The Awesome Bowl since I really don’t know what it’s actually called) when I was in Alabama to…
Romney vs. Obama, the First Presidential Race EVER With No WASP Candidate
Yesterday saw Mitt Romney cruise to an easy victory in Nevada’s presidential primary and thus added to the growing consensus that it would take a miracle to stop him from becoming the Republican nominee for President. But if it really is Romney vs. Obama, and right now it’s looking all but certain it will be,…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Why Rednecks Don’t Care About Pro-Football
So this weekend doesn’t necessarily bring a “sex tip” but for many men in Alabama, we’d rather watch football than actually have sex (in fact, the two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive and probably trigger the same parts of the brain when doing both). What this weekend talks about is the strange phenomenon of people giving…
Larger Editorial: Romney vs. Gingrich, Two Candidates that REPUBLICANS Hate
I know this race is already about played out and most of you are probably ready to hear about something but…too bad, for now at least because an observation really struck me this week that this race is unlike any other I’ve ever seen. Now most of you might say “Well no shit,” but what…
Fast Food Critic: McDonald’s Removes “Pink Slime” From Hamburgers…Wait, There Was Pink Slime?
There isn’t a whole lot of news every week that comes from major fast food chains, and there is virtually NO news from them that is positive. However, McDonald’s defied that expectation this week by announcing that it hasn’t used ammonium hydroxide in its hamburgers since August of last year, and that ammonium hydroxide is…
Working Class Economist: Mitt Romney Admits He “Doesn’t Think” About the Very Poor
At the risk of turning this once diverse feature into “Why Mitt Romney Sucks This Week,” it’s yet another week in the presidential campaign (as it will be for the next nine months) and disappointingly brings another fuck-up from the Mitt Romney campaign. [With a candidate like this it really speaks to how unpopular Gingrich…
Entertainment Editorial: Alabama Liberal’s Book Club Selection for January is…The Leftovers!
So right now I’d like to start Alabama Liberal’s Book Club Selection both to promote great books that I like and also to counter the notion that nobody in Alabama reads. Each month I’ll be picking a different novel and hoping that maybe (juuuuuust maybe) someone might read it because I told them to, thus…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Grey
I was downright shocked at how much I liked this movie and especially considering that almost all of the audience I saw it with hated it. But most likely the same things they didn’t like were the same things I did like: the willingness to keep us off our toes, the realism, the refusal to…