Panic!!!

So it turns out that swine flu is bullshit. No big surprise there. We have a tendency to assume the worst (and then kill all our pigs). But you know what wasn’t bullshit? What actually requires a little panic? Pneumonic plague. Transmitted easily from person to person, that stuff is scary. But if it’s so [...]

how’s that for civilization?

tarzan and his mate (or tarzan finds a mate) is incredible.  to quote a friend, “it’s the best jungle movie ever made.”  i couldnt agree more.

tarzan and his mate is a lot like herzog’s jungle movies — fitzcarraldo, cobra verde, etc.  it’s a bunch of europeans heading off into the middle of the jungle to [...]

I Think She was a Lady Stripper

Someone recently found our little blog here by google searching “Diablo Cody” “hung like.” I don’t know what post that could possibly be. I think I used the phrase “hung like a brontosaurus” in my thesis…but I can’t really imagine Brian and I writing about Diablo Cody. That said, I would like to inform this [...]

Christian Bale’s Beard Doesn’t Put Out

Here is an important lesson I learned from the movie The Fabulous Stains: music is better when no one really knows what they’re doing. Diane Lane doesn’t have to know how to sing, Laura Dern doesn’t even have to know a chord on the guitar (she makes up her own), and that other girl…doesn’t really [...]