No Film School

The best satire is able to parody something BEFORE it actually happens out in the real world. Beck’s hilarious pastiche Midnight Vultures, released in 1999, fit this bill perfectly. It was one of the few albums I owned at the time that was actually acceptable to crank up in your vehicle, if you […]

David Banner’s new album Certified was released today. It contains the single “Play,” which would qualify as a Dechievement, except for the fact that it is essentially the same song as The Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (the Whisper Song),” which I included in my original definition of the Dechievement.
Certainly the uncensored lyrics (caution, […]

Breaking your ankle in two places? Fun. Breaking it after you’ve just finished six months of shoulder rehab? Even more fun!

It’s not really swollen much anymore, although it was a week ago. You didn’t need to see that, though. In fact, you didn’t need to see my foot at all. […]

These past few days I’ve been working on a grant application, which is often tedious work (e.g., trying to come up with cohesive answers to questions like “what are your career goals?” in 50 words or less). So what does one do when engaged in something tedious? Find a diversion! Here it […]

“Oh, so you girls are in college?”
“Yeah, we’re all in school together.”
“So, wait, that means you were born when?”
“Nineteen eighty-five.”
“Nineteen NINETY-five?!”
“No, nineteen EIGHTY-five. If I was born in nineteen NINETY-five I’d be, like, seven.”