Common Sense

I watched the first episode last night on my DVR and I must say that I like the ambitousness of the dark comedy. Having the dad from Malcolm in the Middle turn from high school chemistry teacher to meth cooker is just funny to me.
The way he goes about doing things and his own general […]

I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that after much lobbying, cajoling, pleading and selling… I’ve finally gotten a blog from the Trib. In the next week, I’ll be starting it up, moving my Movie Blog archives over to it and writing my own little niche film blog where I […]

Apparently MTV has another reality show (Ed. note: Remember when you watched MTV for music videos? How old does that make me?) and this one stars Myspace hottie Tila Tequila.
In a twist on all those stodgy televised courtship tournaments, A Shot at Love sets 16 men and 16 women in pursuit of the heroine’s affections. […]

Another football season, another year of the Red River Shootout. This year, I’m sad to say, I think the Sooners are going to win again. There’s no way that they cover the 11-point spread; just as a matter of pride Colt McCoy can’t let that happen.
If they do beat the spread, there’ll be a lot […]

Kathy Griffin managed to get the one reliably irate group to help spread her name around town: Christians.
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a Christian theater troupe are spreading the word that they’re irate about Kathy Griffin’s off-color speech in accepting a creative arts Emmy earlier this month.
The Miracle Theater in Pigeon Forge spent […]

I spent four minutes just now watching our president speak about the surge’s success in Anbar and I swear if I hear about Anbar being a success anymore, I’m going to hit someone over the head with my cane!
You know how we drove out AQI (all 200 of them) out of Anbar Province? We gave […]

Not being the techno-geek that I should be to really speak about this problem, I can only tell you it has given me a headache.
I don’t know which one I’m going to have to fork over the dough to buy in the future so that I can watch movies on my HDTV. It seems to […]

Then you may have noticed I used old school Frylock for my Drive-Thru review as my rating standard. Originally, the Aqua Teens were corporate mascots that had taken over the show on the old Space Ghost: Coast to Coast show (Episode Baffler Meal). I don’t think there was even a Meatwad at the time.
Anyway, anyone […]

This post was originally going to be titled “How much wood could a woodchipper chip if a woodchipper could chip you?” I rented Woodchipper Massacre and was all excited when I popped it into the DVD player. Dead Mary had been sort of iffy and I was looking forward to some good gore.
And then after […]

This is one of those times when I actually get to say something knowledgeable about someone famous who has passed away.
I had the good fortune to actually meet Lady Bird Johnson a couple of years ago at a taping of Texas Monthly Talks. Evan Smith was interviewing Jim Lehrer because he had a new fiction […]