Trick Or Treat

Trick Or Treat

I’m one of those idiots who never misses an opportunity to incessantly speak about my childhood growing up in the epitome of white picket fence small town mid-west. I also have a definite colorful case of White Girl Syndrome that really tends to rear it’s ugly head in autumn and probably isn’t going away any time soon, so of course I have extremely vivid memories of Halloween.

 

The first Halloween I remember was in 1997. I was in the first grade and I remember sitting next to my nemesis and fellow brownie scout Jessica Lambursky, who happened to be really fucking jazzed on the fact that she was going to dress up as Posh Spice for our class Halloween Party after recess. She was going to wear her older sister’s belly shirt crop top and a metallic skirt and she kept taking it out of her book bag and showing everyone on the bus.

 

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A Daydream of Death Hungry Fiends

A Daydream of Death Hungry Fiends

I was sitting in a coffee shop in Hollywood waiting on an actor that was running late thanks to a bout with food poisoning (it’s a dangerous thing having breakfast at Denny’s) and it struck me that America could do with a new serial killer. What began as a crass thought while eavesdropping on the conversation of a group of very fit solipsists turned into something very real and nostalgic.

 

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Fuck Pirates of the Caribbean

Fuck Pirates of the Caribbean

NOTHING MAKES SENSE IN PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL!

 

 

-Why are the pirates clothes cursed?

The moon reveals the cursed pirates as decayed bone people, but why do their clothes change?  From, you know, piratey, to super ripped up.  Can they not change their clothes?  Or no matter if they change their clothes, the new outfit, in turn, becomes cursed?

-Why is the ship cursed?  

The pirates are cursed because they stole gold that was cursed.  I get it.  Why is the ship cursed?  The ship didn’t steal anything.  Even when the curse is lifted, the ship stays looking like shit.  I don’t think that’s very fair to the ship.

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Thrift Shop Tech Review: GE Tape Cassette Walkman

Thrift Shop Tech Review: GE Tape Cassette Walkman

So Kill Pretty had this horrible idea of assigning me to a tech review column. When I told them I knew shit about technology—which they should’ve gathered, since Nacho had to explain to me in full detail, as if I were an intoxicated infant, how exactly Twitter worked—they came up with this idea of me reviewing vintage electronic equipment. So this is my initiation.                

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Hard To Die (1990)

Hard To Die (1990)

As we all know, killer brain movies are a dime a dozen. We’ve all seen brains from outer space descend on a small town and a Rambo type character must swoop in to save the day. What puts “The Brain” in a different category than the hundreds of other killer brain movies is it’s a metaphor for being a teenager and the angst of being misunderstood in a brainwashed society run by television. Stupid parents and all their rules! Oh, it also has a huge fucking brain that eats naked girls!

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You Can't Wait to Know This!

You Can't Wait to Know This!

Is Neil Patrick Harris Available? You Bet He is!

Omnipresent-Multi-Faceted-Ellen-Degeneresqe-But-Butcher-Than-Seth-MacFarlane-Will-Ever-Be-Powder-Puff-A-Gay-Gurrl Neil Patrick Harris has been tapped to emcee the 2015 Oscar Telecast.

What a deal for Neil! He really needs the exposure, doesn't he? The "versatile performer" (that's what the Hollywood Reporter called him) and "total power top" (that's what he calls himself) has only hosted a few awards shows in his flash in the pan, barely noticed career-reign over all of mass media. And by a "few" I mean four times at the helm of The Tonys and twice steering broadcasts of Oscar's mixed-race-adopted-sister-with Aspergers-and-a-food-allergy The Emmys. He even won four Emmys for his Tony Shows! So meta!

The Hollywood Reporter went on to gush breathlessly that he'll "also have a rooting interest in one of this year's awards hopefuls, since he's currently appearing in David Fincher's 'Gone Girl.' 

Said Harris, "It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year's Academy Awards." (It's next years, Neeeeiiiiiil.) Then, because he isn't captured on film in every known medium, every single freaking day, he released a video on Twitter and talked some more; his voice forever rippling throughout the universe with a mesmerizing melodious hum, vibrating on radio waves that glittered like opals!

"I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show. To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true." Girl. Get gone! Make some room on the stage for those other hungry queens waiting in the wings. I'm not talking about me! I've got this gig. I'm talking about Mario Cantone. Poor little thing got a half-scale day rate on 'The View.'

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How To Dress Appropriately Sexy on Halloween?

How To Dress Appropriately Sexy on Halloween?

It's that time of year again, the leaves are refusing to change, the wind nips at an autumnal 62 degrees, and I have to sort out which sexy costume to wear to the Halloween parties whose invitations are stuffing my mailbox like a bag of garlic.

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