Executive-produced by Mary Laurie with producers [Sean] Cain and Wes Laurie, SILENT NIGHT, ZOMBIE NIGHT “is kind of a love story between two cops,” Cain explains. “Not that they are ‘in love’ with each other, but they’ve been friends a long time, and they love each other in a manly, macho sort of way. One [...]

This is a tribute to, and expansion of, Matt Groening’s annual “forbidden words” list, which, this year, consisted solely of things McCain and Palin said.

Due respect to the man, but his list was incomplete. Here’s mine:

“My friends”
“Joe Sixpack”
“Regular Joe”
“Joe the Plumber”
“Joe Lieberman’s endorsement”
“Lipstick on a pig/pitbull”
“barracuda”
“hockey mom”
“palling around”
“black liberationist theology”
“change you can believe in”
“Baracky”
“Obamessiah”
“Walnuts”
“When I [...]

Let me know, in comments, if you like this format and want more. I’ll take silence as a “no.” Then probably do more anyway, but not as many.

See if you can guess which movie is which before clicking over.

“when he makes a comedy, that often seems like a pleasant surprise. Except that it isn’t—he’s really not very good at them.”

and

“Considering the particular segment of the market this movie is aiming for, be very glad that the sassy mother-in-law is played by an [...]

…here’s how the next part of it would go:

I go back to Pounding Mill, Virginia. Miraculously, in this tiny town where so many are obese, there will be one, and only one, extremely beautiful girl who is still single and has not moved away. Her defining character trait is spontaneity, and she’ll remember me from [...]

The LA Weekly/VVM full film poll finally went online.

I may have preempted my own page somewhat with the top 50 list here, but as far as favorite actors and soforth, you can check out my page on the poll HERE

Again I note that the ten are somewhat arbitrary on any given day, but my top [...]

March is the last month on my lease in Santa Ana. I can’t afford to stay after that, and as of right now, I can’t afford to move to another rental either.

I need some sort of major breakthrough pretty soon if I’m to stay in California (which I very much want to do).

In the meanwhile, [...]

…who do you think, at the height of their previous fame, would have been far and away the person you’d think LEAST likely to ever be a major political figure?

-The guy who starred opposite a chimp named Bonzo.

-The Terminator.

-A feather-boa-wearing wrestler nicknamed “The Body.”

or

SNL’s Stuart freakin’ Smalley!

Congrats to Al Franken. It may be by only [...]