Disney apparently is frothing at the mouth over marketing opportunities for Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow character. They’ve gone ahead and registered the character for products ranging from bolo ties* to soup mixes to printers to cassette tapes. The list does not include: eye patches, glass eyes, peg legs or lard.
The lawyers may be working overtime […]
Gawker has a Word document that is allegedly an essay penned by recent Harvard graduate Rivers Cuomo. In the essay, Cuomo mainly waxes poetic about the difficulties of being a celibate rock star.
Regardless of how authentic Gawker claims the thing to be, I really, really hope it’s a well-played hoax. I’m embarrassed for Cuomo […]
As a child, I loved “The Bob Newhart Show.” I’m not sure why, exactly, though the fact that he lived in a city and worked as a shrink and drank after work probably seemed deeply romantic at the time.
Anyhow, I just got pointed to this amazing send-up to Dr. Robert Hartley and his fabulous […]
Frank Kozik’s toy designs are brilliant. The newest line out from the evil geniuses at Kidrobot is an evolution of the Smorkin’ Labbits — now we have Smorkin’ Mongers. The goodies are sold in a blind assortment, meaning you don’t know what the hell you’re getting until you open the box. The series appears to […]
This mildly insane video love letter from Henry Rollins to Ann Coulter does nothing to lessen my desire to sleep with Henry Rollins…well, ok, so I only want to sleep with the idea of Henry Rollins…and I only really want that because I listened to Black Coffee Blues on CD one too many times when […]