As personal injury lawyer, it’s my job to help people as best as we can do to help our clients. But sometimes, we see claims from our colleagues in the personal injury space that although creative in their approach, are just plain bizarre. Some of these lawsuits rank up there with Kramer from Seinfeld’s lawsuit filed…
Author: Kevin Forde
Once Hollywood gets the gentle whiff of box-office success, it can’t help but try and capitalise by quickly farting out a plethora of sequels, remakes and spin-offs. For a variety of reasons — the original cast not returning, an opportunistic studio or simply a terrible, terrible writing team — these films sometimes bear little or…
Musicians can get into contractual trouble for a variety of reasons. A lot of the time it is by not reading, understanding or caring what their contract actually says. As a result, disputes often lead artists to recording an album or song for mere contractual, rather than artistic, purposes. The records made under such conditions…
Some films are great, some not so much, and some suck so bad that they get their own documentary, society, and theatrical production. The following is a list of movies that were terrible ideas to start with, were executed poorly, and have since gone on to not only be appreciated by the masses, but loved…
Everyone loves a good tale of murder. From “Stagger Lee” to “John Hardy” the American songbook is full of scoundrels, cheaters and unrepentant murderers. Quite often the origin of these songs is pretty hard to track. As most songs are decades, if not centuries old, and passed down in the oral tradition, the murderers’ boasts…
When playing an instrument, being able to see is definitely helpful, right? For anyone who has fumbled about with a guitar, learned their first chord, their second, even a third and then given up when it came time to put all three together, imagine doing all that again, only without the help of the sense…
No one wants to get sick. Don’t we all wrap up warm in winter to insulate ourselves from the cold and be extra careful around snot-nosed ill people? Only a few of us, though, ever get really serious about it. For instance, have you ever spent a day picking up everything with a tissue? Or…
Today, when most people hear the words “silent comedy” they probably think of things like Charlie Chaplin’s silhouette framed in the sunset or twinkly piano music playing over barely decipherable grainy images and, perhaps, people getting kicked up the arse. A lot. However, behind the music and hand-cranked camera shots lie something else entirely, for…