Inspiration and insanity on open mic night (featuring Geri X and Stick Martin)
June 5, 2010

Stick follows with covers of Satan Gave Me a Taco and Under Pressure, for which Geri gets the snap/clap audience participation right, while A.J. and Carson apparently just formed opposable thumbs yesterday.

Film review: Splice (2010), a gorgeous train wreck of sci-fi horror
June 2, 2010

Adrien Brody is solid, but the best part of his casting is that he kinda looks like the result of a gene-splicing experiment in the first place.

Brief thoughts on Lost series finale: Because someone had to do it
May 24, 2010

The brilliance of Lost always has been about reading between the lines and adding your own interpretations to the mix. Why should the finale be any different? If the writers handed us everything on a silver platter, wouldn’t that be the cop-out?

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) review by Rick Gershman
May 22, 2010

How bad could it be? Really bad, it turns out. Astonishingly, amazingly, how-could-you-possibly-screw-this-up-any-worse bad.

Lucinda Williams concert review (archives, 2004)
May 20, 2010

ST. PETERSBURG – Six songs into her show Tuesday at Jannus Landing, Lucinda Williams and her band began to hear calls from fans for some up-tempo favorites. “We’ll do Changed the Locks and Joy,” she responded, chastising the crowd in good-natured fashion. “We’ve got to work up to it. Y’all just chill out.” Williams didn’t [...]

Teen’s pencil toss turns into felony charge (archives, 2005)
May 16, 2010

SPRING HILL – What Patrick Ortiz did Tuesday morning got him taken from Fox Chapel Middle School in handcuffs and booked at Hernando County Jail. It got him suspended from school. It got him three weeks of house arrest. It got him charged with a third-degree felony. And it could get him expelled. He is [...]

Valentine’s Day cheaters article (2006)
May 10, 2010

(Originally published February 14, 2006) On Valentine’s Day, the businessman was determined to be with the woman he loved. That woman, unfortunately, was not his wife. The lovebirds nestled in a corner booth at an Italian restaurant in Dunedin, showing little discretion. Lips locked on lips, on wrists, on ears, shoulders, necks. Hands disappeared into [...]

American Idol: Kelly Clarkson / Clay Aiken review (2004)
May 9, 2010

When Aiken sang I Will Carry You off his album Measure of a Man, one had to wonder: Clay, just exactly whom could you possibly carry? Mini Me? Whitney Houston?

Note to (currently-but-not-infinitely-nonexistent) Readers
May 5, 2010

Okay, there aren’t any readers yet. I realize this. However, there will be. (I remain optimistic. Don’t crush the light in my soul. That’s what family is for.) So when readers finally get around to reading this, it is to explain that the posts that follow will include more than a little “repurposed” content. However, [...]

Son of the Mask review 
May 2, 2010

Creepy, grating and tiresome, hands down one of the worst sequels ever.

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