book review: The Pun Also Rises
The branch of humor called punning has roots planted much further back in history than wood normally be guessed. John Pollack peels back the leaves of history to … That’s enough. It’s a book about […]
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Game of Thrones, or: Reviewing War and Peace, but with no peace and ten times the war
So … you’ve probably heard of this book, which has garnered some moderate success from an otherwise unknown author by the name of George R. R. Martin. Long-winded fantasy? Who does that anymore? My wife […]
“Welcome to Heidi” by Heidi Clements – Book Review
Heidi Clements’ Welcome to Heidi made the coveted title of “Bathtub Book.” Not many books are worthy or funny enough to be read in my bathtub. Even fewer books are so well written as to keep me […]
Review: X-Men Exposed—sometimes literally
Time travel, yay! I love a great time travel movie. Heck, I love a bad time travel movie. Good news: X-Men: Days of Future Past is a great travel movie. The movie, which has a […]
Epic Movie = Epic Fail
In nature, the monkey expresses boredom, anger and general displeasure by hurling his feces. While watching Epic Movie, I desperately longed to be that monkey. Imagine having the irreproachable honor of chucking a piping stack of […]
Golden Girls Season 2 DVD Review
Picture it. The Bronx. 1986. A young, sexually inexperienced (read: virgin) teenage boy who harbors a vaguely erotic fantasy of being chased down a dark alley by the charter members of Duran Duran, sits down […]
Woody Allen’s prose
WOODY ALLEN’S fame for extracting humour from the serious side of life is well-known. And in many of his films, humour is noticeably absent as he mines the darkest recesses of the human psyche and […]