As a Barnes & Noble employee, I used to notice that Borders employees were a grumpier lot, less concerned with books, what the best ones were, what was in the books, where the books properly GO.  A lot of times the shelves were too high.  A simple solution would have been to lose the top [...]

Presidenital candidate, former Senator Rick Santorum, has the nervous old dog look on his face of someone who knows this is the end of the road.  He’s trailing in nearly every poll for GOP candidates.  He’s a dunce in a (Very Confederate) Confederacy of Dunces.  The only time he makes news is when a Big [...]

EPISODE 2: “Pig With the Froggy Tattoo” In the museum of Hollywood Archaeology, the Venus de Milo would be The Muppet Parodies, which deserve their long-storied place in history next to James Bond opening credits and SNL fake commercials.  May those wells never run dry.  In fact, with the new Muppets Movie being such a [...]

There was a President of this country, a good but flawed man, who took office with a promise:  he would make it so if a man loved a man and a woman loved a woman, they would be welcome to fight in his army.  It was a wild claim, this promise, and his opponents took [...]

“HEARTBREAKER BABY” by MSTRKRFT feat. Justin Bieber & Ludacris I’ve previously listed the traditional version of MSTRKRFT’s “Heartbreaker” feat. the warm-feeling-inducing John Legend in the playlist.  Today is a mashup of that song with the previously thought evil boy wonder Justin Bieber.  The new technical term for a mashup is “VS” (as imagine this pairing [...]

Otherwise known as “Agorahomophobia,” Gay Agoraphobia is characterized by fears of seeing gay people in your daily life being so great that you’re forced to just stay inside. Who suffers from such a debilitating and specific affliction?  Apparently, just one.  We’ll call her Stacy T. to protect her anonymity.  What?  She yakked about this on [...]

In what might be the Ballsiest News of the Week, it appears that in 2008, Orson Scott Card, author of the impenetrable “Ender’s Game” sci-fi ouvre and board member of the National Organization of Marriage, wrote a novella adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal HAMLET. Card said that his inspiration was to update Shakespeare to make the [...]

“DON’T SLEEP IN THE SUBWAY” by Petula Clark Petula Clark of the “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go…Downtown” Petula Clarks is a diamond on today’s playlist.  Here she is with “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” another song that’s just her telling a friend in New York City not [...]

It’s four years from now that we should have hoverboards and about 15 more Jaws movies under our belt, according to the timeline of “Back to the Future Part II”.  Obviously, this will not be possible. One item, dum-da-dum, that will make the deadline is the magnetic lacing sneakers that Nike apparently mass-produces in the [...]

It’s the two-year anniversary of Stay On Fountain!  I have to say, I’m in love with this more today than I was yesterday. There’s a lot of blogs out there, a lot of content.  A blog’s like a mini, mini restaurant.  It’s hard to stay open during the formative years.  I am proud to have [...]

SAGE HEAVEN at Hollywood Roosevelt’s Library Bar My previous rendezvous to the Library Bar have always been in the spirit of social curiosity.  My fascination with their drink-making process, no set menu, just tell the bartender your favorite tastes and he creates something on the spot, had before only been born out of an almost [...]