The death of actor Neil Hope, who played “Wheels” on popular Canadian teen soap opera Degrassi, was revealed to the public yesterday nearly five years after his actual death at age 35. Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 17, 2012
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You can pick anyone from any point in time to be your bestest friend forever (as long as it’s someone you don’t actually know). Your Imaginary Friend can be a real person or a fictional character. Tell us why you chose who you chose. Continue reading
It was cloudy with a chance of Thunderdome yesterday, but all things considered, you had a fairly good week, Crasstalkers. Hit the jump, and let’s have a look at who said what, when and why.
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I’m currently reading The Emperor of All Maladies. It’s a great book on the history of cancer and cancer treatments. Reading it is like sitting in the observation desk of a surgical theater while a new and especially tricky procedure is being conducted. You are witnessing one of the scariest moments of someone’s life and the most triumphant moment in another’s. Yet your attention is not on the sedated person, the one who will pay with their life should things not go as planned. Your attention is on the person in the scrubs, with the knife. Continue reading
Yes, discarded drifter, Ryan Phillippe, may have found a home this fall on the network Ashton Kutcher seduced with his talent for slovenly beach bum antics and nonsensical hair-flopping. These are the other things he does on that show about two guys co-habitating and walking around in their bathrobes for half the episode, right? Seriously, every time I flip past Two and a Half Men, somebody’s always in a bathrobe. Is the whole show shot from the perspective of a lazy boy recliner, or outside a bathroom shower? No matter, I’ve yet to meet an actual person who watches that show. Maybe it’s a long commercial for terry cloth and not an actual television program. Continue reading
Jeffrey Sullivan – Mono Lake Moonrise – 2009
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Click for more, including spoilers. It’s a sing-a-long up in here! Continue reading
Apparently, Thursday was a painfully slow sports news day. Otherwise, I can’t explain how an article titled ‘Lebron not ruling out return to Cavaliers’ pops up into my news feed, thanks to the AP. Continue reading
Do you share your Crasstalk identity with others? Do people know who’s behind your avatar? Continue reading
Remember those millimeter wave full body scanners that everyone was up in arms about? Since the mass hysteria has died down, the machines have been rolled out to most of the nation’s large airports despite the fears of ogling and invasion of privacy. It turns out the doomsayers were right and that the TSA is made up primarily of teenage boys. Continue reading