I went to high school in the ’80s during the Reagan era where the labels yuppie, preppie, alternative, and indie all got their start. These labels were used to define parts of our culture that based themselves largely on the level of their conformity to a single, narrow vision of behavior, appearance, and belief system. [...]

10. Whirling robot chaos – when the robots fight, there is so much going on that I can’t even tell where one robot ends and the other begins. It’s just one big flurry of robot mess. I’m all for robots beating the crap out of each other, but this a mess. 9. Egypt is a [...]

It’s 2009 and the speed of information has reached a level where events are broadcast on dozens of levels almost instantly and constantly. The delay between experience and sharing that experience has become virtually nonexistent. And the speed will continue to grow faster and reach more and more levels. So when a media company decides [...]

…don’t EVER f*cking do that again. Seriously.

Stick a fork in it – Heroes is DONE! I almost wrote this last Sunday but I thought I would give it ONE MORE SHOT by waiting for last night’s episode to air. Well, last night didn’t change anything. The Heroes show has gone down hill pretty much since right after Season One. Now we’re [...]

In Chicago when it snows, the snow plows and salt trucks are generally out in force almost immediately. It’s pretty much a job requirement that whomever is mayor at the time needs to be on it effectively or they won’t be mayor for long. Get those streets running again, there is work to be done. [...]

I started watching Heroes when it first aired and immediately liked it. I’m a sucker for superhero stuff and the idea of so-called “regular people” discovering powers was interesting to me. However, somewhere along the way Heroes lost it. I was underwhelmed by the end of Season 1 and Season 2 was pretty abysmal. Now [...]

I have made a series of 8 free iPhone wallpapers based on my Samnation.com images. Download by copying, save as or drag and drop each file to a folder that is set to sync with your iPhone photo collection. Then browse each one, select one and tap your iPhone screen to get the “set as [...]

Did you know… Lil’ Wayne is really f*cking ugly. Working for P. Diddy would REALLY, REALLY suck. Keanu Reeves is a terrible actor. John Cusack is a terrible actor except when he is just playing himself, which is the case in every movie he has ever made. There is absolutely nothing attractive about Maggie Gyllenhaal. [...]

Did you know… Gossip Girl is a stupid, obnoxious show about rich brat idiots. “Disaster Movie” is the movie title and a 2 word review of the film. The Olympics are boring and pointless. Dane Cook and Kate Hudson need to be shot so they can no longer make horrible, despicable, evil movies that rot [...]

The Sour Grapes Rant: I saw this billboard today that said something about espresso drinks being served at McDonald’s “without the snobbery.” And they have these commercials with dudes with goatees who are drinking in some so-called “snob cafe” and they shout out their relief that they can now get espresso at McDonald’s and no [...]

The Sour Grapes Rant: How many times has someone told you that your goals were not realistic? How many times has someone told you to stop dreaming and come back to reality? Its cliché, right? As long as people have been dreaming, someone has been there to say “Give up.” But in a world of [...]

The Sour Grapes Rant: I saw that ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com posted a side by side comparison of Bert Stern’s original 1962 shots of Marilyn Monroe and his 2008 shots of Lindsay Lohan for New York magazine. Am I the only one who thinks that any comparison, now matter how small, between Marilyn Monroe and Lindsay Lohan is [...]

The Sour Grapes Rant: The movie poster goes hand-in-hand with the trailer as a key form of advertising. Yet it seems some studios find it acceptable to release movie advertising with truly awful imagery that looks like it was spliced together by some photoshop hack, or possibly a photoshop sweatshop in Indonesia.

I was a bit of a late-comer to the TV show Lost. I didn’t buy into the first season hype and I avoided it. However when the first season came out on DVD, I gave it a shot and got totally sucked in. We watched every episode of the first season, all in a row [...]