If Playboy has served as a barometer for the evolving sexual taste of the American male, then what does its new TV programming have to say about that? After realizing that it couldn’t outdo Internet porn or even other channels of the flesh without tarnishing its para/… Read full post »

After spending the weekend with my parents, I feel the need to document some things.

1) My mother insists on having a bird-feeder, but this is very time-consuming for her. She gets upset when the squirrels eat all the birds' food. This means that whenever she is home, she must… Read full post »

If you think about it, what "30 Rock" did by going live last Thursday is more mind-bending than it first appears. It's a real recorded, but now live, NBC show written by Tina Fey (Liz Lemon) about a fictional live NBC show written by Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), based on… Read full post »

Here's how The Simpsons is like any other animated series created by a prominent television network--it outsources its animation to South Korea; here's how it's not like every other show—it allows graffiti artiste and trickster extraordinaire, Banksy, to do an intro/… Read full post »

1) You have the ability to listen to Slate's Gabfest while simultaneously composing a blog post, madly consuming internet news, and beating the heck out of JabbaTheHutt420 at online Scrabble.

2) At different intervals in your non-cyber life, you've found yourself with a strange desire t/… Read full post »

 

When I was seven, my family visited a little island off the coast of Puerto Rico during hurricane season. To my younger self, the littered beaches resembled billowing garbage monsters with cans for eyes. I was in heaven. I understood the sorrow of hurricanes when the innkeeper&rsq… Read full post »

Warning: Spoiler alert (although, after reading this, you may realize that this is impossible)

These days, when people hear the term street art, they often picture Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster, yet it has a diverse history that includes everything from Keith H… Read full post »

Writer-Director Tatia Rosenthal’s "$9.99," a work of stop-motion animation using silicone figures, took her ten years to make and it was well worth the wait. Like the stories by Etgar Keret that she worked from (she co-wrote the screenplay with him), Rosenthal’s vision… Read full post »

A purveyor of both the visual and libidinal arts, when it comes to genre, Bruce LaBruce is something of a riddle. Who is LaBruce exactly? Punk Zine Publisher? Reluctant Pornographer? Underground Filmmaker? Writer and Photographer? Granted, he has written and photographed for publi… Read full post »

I am so very tired of people trying to cripple potent women by throwing around the “W” word; no, I’m not talking about “Woman” or “Welfare,” I’m talking about “Witchcraft.” What century do we live in? I half expect to… Read full post »