Archive for July 2009

1999: The Last Time Movies, As A Whole, Were Any Good

Jul 31st, 2009 | By JP | Category: Entertainment, Featured Articles

Most of the “big-time” summer movies so far this year can be derided in one non-complete sentence that sums everything up.
To wit:
Wolverine: bloated, pointless, and stupid
Fast and Furious: lifeless, with too much CG and not enough actual car racing
Transformers: check your brain, and possibly self-esteem, at the door
The Hangover: funny at times, but it’s never [...]



We Are Within Striking Distance of the Nadir

Jul 22nd, 2009 | By JP | Category: Rants, Sports

It is much worse than the Pam and Tommy video.  Worse than the Paris Hilton one. 
Those videos featured willing participants engaging in sexual congress with full knowledge of the presence of a video recording device.  Many times one or both of the participants in both videos made faces into the camera while being recorded, celebrating [...]



It’s Cool: You Probably Just Weren’t That Good

Jul 20th, 2009 | By JP | Category: Rants

Everybody has a few great failures in their lives. Whether it be the end of a relationship that you thought was meant to last forever, the end of a sports-playing career in high school or college that you felt wrapped-up unfairly, the blowing of a test that should have been passed or aced, the coming [...]