Videos

I admit, one of the problems I have with getting into the holiday spirit is that, well, Christmas music is kind of lame.  I mean, it’s the same songs you’ve heard for your entire life, and most of those songs are hundreds of years old, so there’s not much you can do with them to […]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a controversial man.  He owns half of Italy’s media properties, as well as the A.C. Milan football team, and is the longest-serving head of a G8 state. He has accomplished all this in spite of his many rude jokes, public relations blunders, a messy divorce and prostitution scandal, a […]

It doesn’t look real, does it?  However, folks in northern Norway are reporting seeing a strange spiraling blue light, swirling in the sky.  It’s one of the oddest looking astronomical phenomenon I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen pretty much every type of UFO and unusual sky object that could be confused for a UFO in […]

Lots of people want to smell like celebrities.  For example, my mom loves those Elizabeth Taylor perfumes.  She’s especially a fan of White Diamonds, so for her birthday I got her one of those White Diamonds gift sets with the perfume, scented soaps, scented lotion, and some other stuff inside it.  She was very pleased, […]

  The holiday weekend is usually a big time for movies to be released.  Every Christmas, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and just about every other long weekend is greeted with a release slate full of big-budget movie blockbusters, save one.  Thanksgiving is generally a movie wasteland, given that it’s usually a weekend […]

I’m something of a movie nerd.  Some people love analyzing literature.  I love dissecting films, studying them scene by scene for influences, homages, or just general technical abilities.  One of my favorite shots in film is the tracking shot, in which the camera moves during a scene while shooting, usually on rails, following an actor […]

You know, it’s got to be pretty embarrassing if you get stuck in a wall.  I mean, it’s okay for a cute little hedgehog to get stuck in a wall, because it’s a hedgehog.  It has a brain the size of a walnut; you don’t expect it to be smart enough not to crawl halfway […]

Neatorama calls it bomb-proof wallpaper.  No matter what you call it, the X-Flex Blast Protection System is quite possibly the world’s most indestructible sheet of paper.  Basically, it’s Kevlar webbing (like the kind you use in a bullet-proof vest) writ large, with an adhesive backing so you can just plaster it to the inside of […]

You know, for a guy that’s written about the Large Hadron Collider so much, I’m not really sure I understand.  I mean, I vaguely get what it’s supposed to do, but the actualities of the thing?  Not so much.  All I know is that it’s expensive and fragile.  The geniuses at CERN need to dumb […]

Juan Carlos Roldan and five of his friends were out one beautiful night in their town of Clodomira, Santiago del Estero in Argentina.  They were singing and dancing, having a good time, when suddenly it struck.  Well, it didn’t strike so much as it came crab-running towards them.  They captured the infamous petido orejudo, or […]

There’s a very lucky woman in Boston today, and it’s all thanks to the alert eyes of Charice Lewis.  The subway conductor for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) was pulling into the station when she saw frantic waving from the platform.  That’s when she saw the face pop up in front of her window.  […]

You’ve already seen the video of Elizabeth Lambert’s on-pitch throw-down versus the Cougars of BYU this week, and now the violence has spread all the way to Rhode Island.  The state high school championship game between the Woonsocket Villa Novans and the Tolman Tigers turned into Kenilworth Road, American Style, after a bump between Woonsocket’s […]

This is simply beautiful.  Just what I needed on a Monday morning.  The soothing combination of Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman‘s beautiful song, Time to Say Goodbye, and the beautiful sight of the tallest fountain in the world‘s powerful sprayers set to lights and music in a graceful dance of H20 and music. That fountain, […]

I have to admit that normally I’d never even consider buying a Snuggie, if only because of how much of a pop culture phenomenon they have become.  Maybe that’s just me, but I hate following the trend and just knowing that there are Snuggie parties kind of kills it for me.  Then I saw the […]

Oh man, I am excited right now.  Like, twitching in my chair excited. Why is that, you might be asking?  Well, it’s simple.  The sales trailer for George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead has been leaked online!  I think the last time I was this excited was when I actually met George Romero. The […]