Monday + Daylight Saving change = horribleness. May your day be filled with as few annoyances as possible, Crasstalkers. Continue reading
I can hardly believe it’s been a whole year. Continue reading
Bill O’ Reilly was very indignant on Thursday night, but this time his ire was only tangentially related to his new favorite subject – contraception – as he railed against the NBC drama, Parenthood. Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker reported that on Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill was upset that Drew and Amy – two high school sweethearts on the show – shared their first sexual encounter without hellfire and brimstone raining down.
“So the consequences were not shown?” O’Reilly bleated angrily at his guests. Of course, the fact that the episode was the season finale escaped him. As did the fact that the day after the sexual encounter wasn’t even shown. But, that’s not his fault. You see, Bill doesn’t even watch the show as evidenced by his question: “So this doesn’t happen every week?” Continue reading
Do you ever read the recipes that come in the back of your food packaging? You know, the pasta sauce recipe printed on the back of your canned tomatoes, or the cookie recipe on the back of the bag of morsels. If you don’t, you may be missing out on some quick and simple recipes that are ripe for modifications. Continue reading
While some of you are still in the cold, Spring Training kicked off last weekend. There are worse ways to spend a day. You know what’s not a worse way to spend your day? Making the winning casserole for the Crasstalk Casserole Contest. Entries are due today and tomorrow! Continue reading
More like “John Carter of Meh.”
It appears that blockbuster movie season is starting a little bit earlier than the traditional Memorial Day weekend, or so the promoters of John Carter would have us believe. Indeed, the trailers before the movie were all for upcoming summer blockbusters—dear mother of Spock, why are we getting yet another Men In Black movie? And, like many movies that will come up this summer, John Carter (of Mars) is a sci-fi movie that tries very hard to be many things…and doesn’t do any of them that well.
Sci-fi as a genre tends to have movies that fall into two categories: Star Wars/Star Trek/Aliens and those movies that want to be them. Of course, movies like District 9, Moon and the recent Chronicle (go see it, by the way!) can be excellent twists on established tropes and should probably be considered as a third category, but those movies are rarely big budget blockbusters. At any rate, John Carter was marketed as “this generation’s Star Wars”, a claim that isn’t at all justified by the film itself. Continue reading
Below, you will find ten quotes from the works of two great authors: Ernest Hemingway and Marilyn Hagerty. Both have captivated the world with their sparse, pithy writing. And so I present to you, Crasstalk readers, lurkers and passers-by, the great Moveable Olive Garden Contest. Can you identify who wrote which quote without the assistance of Google or your dog-eared copy of In Our Time? Put your guesses in the comments. Continue reading
Pssssst. Can you hold it down a bit? First one to bring me breakfast wins something. Maybe it will be a breakfast casserole. That would be heavenly. Continue reading
You know, this isn’t even funny or cute anymore. Just how many more movies will we have to suffer through witnessing Johnny Depp dressed as some sort of ghoul-goblinesque, drunken pirate, emo hair monster? Every single one of them. Behold the new release of Depp as Tonto in the upcoming Lone Ranger movie. Continue reading
You are all such wonderful typists, uh keyboardists. Absolutely flawless. But what about your penmanship? Continue reading