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That Beatie Boys/Beatles thing was totally “off the hook!”
Very impressive.

Beastie Boys and Beatles mash up. Really well done.

Although I love Life of Brian, I was never that into Monty Python and was one of those dopes that never got a lot of their humor. This article helps to explain it a little as it covers the impending new Monty Python Broadway musical Spamelot.
I always find interviews with the Pythons funny as [...]

Hey, I’ve been out of town for a while hence the lack of blogging. Anyway, here’s something to get me started again.
What would happen if Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn got together and used their deconstructionalist, post-modern, anti-colonialism, American university-esque critiques on Lord of the Rings? Find out here.

Nope, my Fark ID is not wdorr (which you would quickly discover by viewing his profile). Just a strange coincidence.

In case you’re not a regular reader of CulturePulp, M.E. Russell’s blog, you may have missed the digital deconstruction of our man at Fark.com, where his recent adventure on a Segway has become a photoshop free-for-all (our own Bill E. appears to have participated as wdorr).

Mister E.’s friend compiled over four hours of “Christmas songs that don’t suck?” That has to be heard to be believed.
As for the “annual” Byrons Xmas movie event, unfortunately said event last occurred in 2001, with a mere three of us (myself, my wife and my brother) attending Michael Mann’s dismal non-event Ali. It was [...]

A friend of mine recently decided that he wanted to put together a playlist of Christmas songs that don’t suck (or songs that suck so much they are amusing). After toiling for days, downloading music via his telephone Internet connection, he completed a collection of some 80 songs he is calling “I Can’t Believe [...]

My short film Resident will be screened this Sunday, along with two other student films, at 7 p.m. at the Guild Theater, downtown Portland.
Admission is free, no doubt to avert riots.

Meanwhile, America’s top academics in Middle East Studies got together for their annual conference and once again allowed their love for the Middle East to be overshadowed by their hatred of the USA. Consequently, the issues that should be on the table (for anyone who really cares about the Middle East’s future) were [...]

Andrew Sullivan posts a great comment today about Islam’s bloody borders and its phony hypocrtical of Israel. By the way, if oppression is so terrible (Israelis against Palestinians) then why aren’t they up and arms over Islamic oppression around the world. Answer: Because Islam and militancy go together like…well like Mohammed and [...]

So Steve Perry has been out of the limelight because his mother died during the making of Journey’s Raised on Radio (1986–love that album) and he didn’t come back until the solo album For the Love of Strange Medicine (1994). His follow up to his succesful Street Talk (Oh Sherrie, She’s Mine, Foolish Heart) [...]

Interesting. Kwaze Mfume was forced out of the NAACP by the Republican-hating chairman Julian Bond.
“The two began feuding after Mfume nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice for his 2003 NAACP Image Award. Furious that Mfume was reaching out to the Bush administration, Bond responded by nominating “Boondocks” cartoonist Aaron McGruder for his Image Award. [...]

I’m feeling guilty about my last post. What a hypocrite. I love Steve Perry and always will. I’m a jerk.

I’ve been real surprised by the fact that Steve Perry, formerly of Journey fame, has not returned to the music business since his last album “For the Love of Strange Medicine” in 1994 (which of course I own).
Afterall, Steve Perry has always been in love with himself and even hillariously talks about himself [...]

Ten years after its initial publication, the single creative act of which I’m most proud is still “Santa’s Lil’ Gimp” — the not-so-heartwarming “Book for Children” I created with Dorrk.
If you’re in the Portland area during the month of December, you can read this mildly terrifying volume in its entirety on the wall of a [...]

Last night, not for the first time since we moved to a busy street on the outskirts of the ‘hood, someone rang our doorbell at 3:30 in the morning.
He seemed like a decent guy with a story of hard luck: out delivering newspapers, locked his keys in his car, stranded with young son in the [...]

PRN said:I’m trying to think of some left leaning actors who when they talk, show a grasp of issues and some nuance that reveals that they can look at things in a non-simplistic, divisive way. Can you think of any?
Can this really be tied to which way the actor/celeb leans politically? Can we discount that, [...]

PRN posted this account of an exchange between Bono and Michael W. Smith:

Earlier this year, Bono reportedly asked the songwriter Michael W. Smith if he knew how to dismantle an atomic bomb. When Smith said he didn’t, Bono responded “Love. With Love.”

That sums up exactly why I would never want to meet and chat with [...]

Great letter to Andrew Sullivan from a reader:
“Beinart is almost completely right, and I do think part of the problem this election year was John Kerry personally, which is another way of saying that as de facto leader of the Democratic Party he was unwilling to use the words “Iraq” and “democracy” or “Arab” and [...]