That’s what Irish expats here call St. Patrick’s Day, as practiced in the U.S.

And don’t give me any crap about Budweiser not being Irish — last time I was in Ireland, the heaviest-drinking friend I have there ordered it regularly; his complaint about Guinness had something to do with one’s bowels the next day…

I’m now doing stuff for a New York-based site called FLYPmedia…sort of like alt-weekly cover stories, but with multimedia content. I was trying to move in this direction with OC Weekly — web-video components alongside cover stories — but that tradition was not followed after I left. This, I think, is the future model –a [...]

The wrestling business claims another life.

Andrew Martin, best-known as Test, found dead at 33. No word yet on the cause.

I always had trouble with the name “Test” for a wrestler, but you had to love a guy who actually wore an official T-shirt that said “I love my Test-icles!”

A study in contrasts.

One new movie is “a new family classic the entire family can actually enjoy.”

…and the other is “sick sadism while missing the point completely.”

Clicky-clicky to find out which.

Note that if you want to argue with me about number two (and I certainly can see why some might, given my track record) we’ll [...]

In the L.A. Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism awards, I am a finalist for Best Online Critic.

I submitted two reviews from this site — for The Wrestler, and for Twilight.

My competition:

C4. CRITIC, ONLINE

* Jay Carr, Turner Classic Movies.com

* Shawn Edwards, ILoveBlackMovies.com

* Tim Mohr, Playboy.com

* Tom Tangney, My Northwest.com

* Luke Y. Thompson, LYTrules.com

I found out while filling out apartment applications today that a person is expected to have two emergency contacts. I only have one.

I used to have more, but everyone I pick to be my emergency contact ends up moving away. So I listed Scott Foundas, head critic for the LA Weekly, as my #2. I [...]

Good grief, the Comedian’s a (teddy) bear!