My friend James Barry often says about the addictive southern chicken chain Chick-Fil-A, “It’s just chicken and a pickle on a biscuit, people.”  This is a quote often accompanied by a link to a story about how sickeningly anti-gay the wildly successful restaurant is. His link is often commented on by chicken lovers who instruct [...]

Fesist! Where is Feist??? She had a huge album in 2007, each song a bit fat hit (especially the iPod nano commerical’s “1-2-3-4″). It’s now 2011, and where’s my new Feist album, damn it?! Please please please PLEASE don’t let her be a one-album hit wonder. Feh.  She’s probably waiting until the album is “ready.” [...]

If I said Christopher Nolan was robbed of a nomination this year, many would agree.  ”Inception” was outrageously gorgeous, relentlessly entertaining, and intelligently romantic.  It did not reinvent the wheel, it was not mind blowing.  I believe it was not meant to be that.  It was meant to be dazzling!  That’s why I was amazed [...]

It’s in the low 70′s here in West Hollywood today, and it’s not even February. I walked Marty in the sun and listened to Patton Oswalt laugh with Adam Carolla. I watched “Grey Gardens” with Paul and laughed some more. I talked scripts with Becky over lunch and laughed again. I let myself in my [...]

Sure, you’re probably thinking, of course “Guess Who,” the race-reversal remake of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” was an embarrassment not just to America, but to whites, blacks, the industry, remakes, “laughers,” movies whose titles ask questions, the estate of the late Bernie Mac, actors from “That 70′s Show” who did not get Ashton Kutcher’s [...]

Did you know…? *That over five years, implementing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell cost the American taxpayers almost $200 million? $185 million of that was used to recruit and train replacements for the 3,664 servicemembers discharged between 2004 and 2009.  The high cost is because a lot of those dischargees were Arab linguists or possessed other [...]

The sun rose in Greenland, two days ahead of schedule, which of course, doesn’t usually happen.  What caused this phenomenon?  The scientists, as always, went to work on it.  Silly answers such as the 2012 Leap Year and shifting constellations couldn’t be debunked fast enough. Could it be a trick?  Thomas Posch of Austria’s Institute [...]

The Golden Globes were Sunday, and whatever reverence you give such an event, there is no denying that it wasn’t a great milestone for gays in entertainment.  You might have gotten in your head from enough Limbaugh/Palin/Bush screeching that Hollywood is plenty liberal and even plentier gay.  But with the occasional One Gay Oscar movie [...]

Johannes Brahms was a classical German composer. It’s good stuff.  I became aware of this piece when writing my article on why the 2007 Classic “There Will Be Blood” was the Best Film of the 2000′s.  That article will be coming next week, but I wanted to talk about Brahms today because “There Will Be [...]

Marcus and I returned to the Roosevelt Hotel’s Library Bar this weekend, Golden Globes evening to be exact.  We abstained from watching the Globes, which unsurprisingly turned out to be an unimpressive affair where we saw a bunch of celebrities showcase what little senses of humor they have about the blah movies they make. As [...]

Hey, are you confused about the different names of sizes at Starbucks?  Well, you’re about to get thrown deeper down the rabbit hole.  Because by May, all Starbucks will introduce an even bigger size (sigh)– the Trenta!! 31 oz. of pure drinking goodness!  The Trenta size will only be available for Iced Coffee, Iced Teas, [...]

The Republican National Convention has a new chairman, and his name is Reince Priebus.  If there was ever a muggle name that sounded more like a bad guy in Harry Potter, it’s Reince Priebus. In fact, it’s pretty damn close to Pius Thicknesse, the icky icky wizard (prominently pictured left) who assumed control of the [...]

“Not Dark Yet” by Bob Dylan is a late-in-life song that I seem to able to enjoy a good cry to here in my early life. It’s Not Dark Yet, but it’s getting there… The slow ballad is soothing to the things you’re sorry for. Feel like my soul has turned into steel… I think [...]

Our culture has progressed a great deal in the last few decades.  But with all this progression, one crucial element has been left for dead somewhere near Zzyzx Road: admitting fault. President Obama has come the closest to a modern public figure feeling sorry about a past action.  He has regretted taking certain actions and [...]

I have taken a major step, my first of many, into getting old.  I now have a pair of reading glasses, in addition to my maximum strength contact lenses (they do not make them any stronger without a special order).  And LASIK is out of the question, as I am not a candidate (because I’m [...]