During Hurricane Sandy, Queens-based comedian Avery Monsen passed the time in the best way possible by editing himself into the famous whipped-cream scene from ‘Varsity Blues’. It’s both poorly done and ridiculously funny. I’m talking about JVDB’s Texas accent, obviously. [via vulture]
Dwight Garner hips me to the Peanut Butter and Pickle sandwich, which he insists is a “thrifty and unacknowledged American classic.” Why can’t the peanut butter and pickle sandwich get a little respect? A few weeks ago, I began calling and e-mailing smart food people — chefs, journalists, cookbook writers, editors — to get their take [...]
“Seven prominent Italian earthquake experts were convicted of manslaughter on Monday and sentenced to six years in prison for failing to give adequate warning to the residents of a seismically active area in the months preceding an earthquake [in 2009] that killed more than 300 people.”
“He also told me one thing, ‘If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry,’ because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she’s not going to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I was part of [...]
“Thousands of people claim to suffer trypophobia, a term derived from the Greek “trypo,” which means punching, drilling or boring holes. It refers to an irrational fear of clusters of small holes, such as beehives, ant holes and even bubbles in a pancake on the griddle or air pockets in a chocolate bar.” Sure why [...]
On the Prometheus Blue-Ray extras, there is an overt reference to Peter Weyland discussing the use of biological replicants vs. mechanical androids with Dr. Eldon Tyrell, who you might know as the founder of the Tyrell Corporation in director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. I honestly have no idea why Scott would decide to merge his [...]
Rep. Todd Akin, the newly-christened GOP Senate nominee in Missouri, said in a Sunday interview that “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy. From the Washington Post: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in a clip posted to YouTube by the Democratic super PAC American [...]
Just when you thought insurance companies couldn’t be any more reprehensible, comes this story of Progressive Insurance defending a policy holder’s killer in court so they wouldn’t have to pay out. In hopes that a jury would hang or decide that the accident was her fault, they refused to pay the policy to my sister’s [...]
