The above is Joe Rogan taking Carlos Mencia to task for stealing other comics’ jokes. Even worse than the joke stealing, though, is the fact that Mencia really just isn’t very funny. His act is more “racist” than “racial,” and his humor about women is of the cheapest, sexist brand. Dr. Jorge Mariscal, writing during […]
May 5 is 2007’s Free Comic Book Day. Free Comic Book Day is more or less exactly what it sounds like — a day on which comic book stores let you come in and pick up (for free) special titles released for the occasion. Obviously it’s still a ways off, but in the meantime, the […]
I forgot to mention that I attended the always excellent Flatstock on Saturday. The show hits Austin during SXSW every other year, and I’ve picked up a few beautiful things there over the years. Several have been given as gifts, but I’ve obtained some art of my very own. I’m particularly partial to pieces […]
I swung by the Vice party last night, which had been last-minute moved to the Elk’s Lodge, which by this point in the week has a distinctive post-party odor. I’m sure it got all crazy and “Girls Gone Wild” later in the night, but when I got there, it was mostly just an orgy of […]
The above is a fabulous clip of John Waters telling theatergoers not to smoke during the movie. I have a deep, unshakable love of John Waters. This is in part because in high school, a time when many people turn to musical subgenres whose practitioners have become critical successes and get called “seminal” all the […]