Mother-in-Lawsuit
(video after the jump) Don't bother complaining to Sunda Croonquist about your obnoxious mother-in-law, because she's got you beat. The comedian's mother-in-law, Ruth Zafrin, is suing Croonquist over jokes in h...
_Inglourious Toddlers_ : If Tarantino Did Recess
Once upon a time, right before naptime, the Toddlers took back the playground from the fourth graders. When it came to recess they were doing one thing and one thing only--wedgies. This Basterd's parody is hyst...
Ladino Meets Tropicalia
We may have stumbled upon the best tour of the fall - Brazilian psychedelic legends Os Mutantes (their brand new album, Haih or Amortecedor is out Sept. 8th on Anti- Records) are hitting the road with DeLeon t...
Stuff Hipsters Hate: Anyone Their Parents Think is Suitable to Date
Mom: So whatever happened to that boy you were seeing?Rebecca: I wasn't "seeing" him, Mom. We were just hanging out. Mom: Are you still "hanging out"?Rebecca: No, his band went on tour.Mom: Well, is there anyo...
Getting to Know Wolf Gnards: A Chicagoan with a Highbrow Approach to Lowbrow Cinema
See the schmuck behind Bill Murray in the photo above? That's Mark Hing, the 30-year old behind the site Wolf Gnards - the blog that gained fame this summer from an ambitious study on the amount of time Murray'...
_Dead Snow_ ( _Død snø_ ): A Nazi Zombie Flick
So what exactly do the blood-guzzling Nazi zombies in Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow (Død snø) tell us about what's lurking in the current collective unconscious? Do the Nazi dead still haunt us?
Daily Links
Ode to aFart (Miss Cellania) The Evolution of the Modern Blockbuster: Part 1 (L Magazine) The Top 20 Jewish Comedians of All-Time (Mental Floss) Save the Millionaires (Paranoid Larry) From The A...
_Curb_ Appeal
(Video after the jump) After his foray into film with Woody Allen, Larry David is back at HBO (season 7 premieres September 7) milking the Curb series for it's last drop of neurotic goodness. The brilliant prom...
Updated: Leave Bernie Alone!
Since his arrest for running a Ponzi scheme in December 2008, 70-year-old Bernard Madoff has suffered everything from death threats to small penis accusations. Well, it seems the stresses of being most the hat...
_The 99_: New Muslim Superheroes Get TV Deal
Forget Wonder Woman and her whorish crime fighting bustier. This fall birka-wearing Batina the Hidden is hitting the British airwaves in The 99 and she has no time for S&M truth lassos and lascivious twirls...
Bernie Madoff: Future Prison Bitch?
According to Madoff mistress Sheryl Weinstein's new book, Madoff's Other Secret: Sex, Money, Bernie, and Me, Mr. Ponzi himself is a "good kisser" but "not so well-endowed." Not the kind of i...
Neo-Nazis Keep on Trucking
Two German losers are being charged for hanging a pig's head from the Star of David on the entrance gate at one Jewish cemetary and pouring pig's blood over a memorial plaque at another in eastern German city o...
