What an awful commute today. It was bad enough that I was running late this morning and had to take a cab, but on the way home, the traffic was terrible and I got hit by a streetcar.
Not a vehicle I was in. Me. Technically speaking, I suppose I can now say I got hit [...]

Me: I don’t think there’s a lot of entertainment value in children dying. Except Anne Frank, of course.
Candace: I think that’s the worst thing you’ve ever said. Don’t you worry that someone is going to take you seriously and come after you one of these days?
Me: Well, it won’t be Anne Frank or any of [...]

Judging by footage I’ve seen of Van Halen’s pre-tour rehearsals, there’s no doubt about Wolfgang Van Halen’s parentage. He’s got his dad’s ugly mug and his mom’s weight problem. Wolfie’s mom, as you may know, is former One Day at a Time star Valerie Bertinelli, who’s now appearing as Kirstie Alley’s weight-loss protegé in the [...]

While I’m posting unjustly forgotten power-pop songs for the weekend, here’s “Wayside”, by Artful Dodger. Don’t even bother with the version I’ve embedded here, though. I just embedded it to have something to embed. Instead, go watch this one, on which the embedding has been disabled, which is annoying but still better than not having [...]

I recently mentioned the Cowsills and what became of them, but I didn’t mention the Laurie Partridge of the band, Susan Cowsill. Well, she went on to acquire some degree of indie cred as a member of the Continental Drifters, which was a kind of supergroup also involving Peter Holsapple from the dB’s and Vicki [...]

Here’s something Candace stumbled across that so delighted her as a Canadian living abroad that it brought tears to her eyes: an online archive of Trailer Park Boys episodes posted on Google Video and Guba. While the show is seemingly in perpetual rotation on Showcase, this is still good news to Canadians; not only can [...]

So, I wrote this article called The 10 Most Improbable Celebrity Fistfights for Cracked, and scant minutes after e-mailing my completed draft, I found out about this. Here’s Danny Bonaduce dropping Johnny Fairplay on his face and knocking out a few teeth.

It was too late to include it, but I just wanted you to see [...]

While I’m on the subject of unexpectedly mind-blowing singles from family acts generally regarded as uncool, there’s the Cowsills’ recording of “Hair”. I’d heard the song, but I never really had much idea who the Cowsills were aside from a quote from Sterling Morrison in the Velvet Underground box set Peel Slowly and See about [...]

Hey, Mark Vidler — aka Go Home Productions — is retiring from the mash-up game, but as a parting gift, he’s making his entire back catalogue available. Check out his site and grab everything you can.
It’s a GHP mash-up called “Baby’s Got a Crazy Horse” that leads me to post this. It’s an improbable combination [...]

“Why is there a Joey Moss Cup? That’s retarded.”
“I’m not creeped out about finding a girl who’s just like my mother. As long as her blowjobs are better.”
“If I’m allergic to cats, then I’m allergic to goats? Well, there goes my sex life.”