No, you didn’t read the title to this piece in correctly. During WW1, the Russians…
On 27 October 1960, American soul singer Ben E. King co-wrote and recorded “Stand by…
With Left-Handers Day come and gone, we started to wonder if being a righty is all it’s cracked up to be. There are two sides to the argument, and both shall be presented. Today, a righty explains why he would never want to be a lefty. Coming Saturday: the rebuttal.
When Steve Irwin died the world collectively got a tiny bit less awesome. Because when…
Sigmund Freud is, depending on who you talk to, either one of the greatest psychological minds in history, or a perverted phony who made up entire theories to “explain” why babies lust after their parents. The answer, as usual, is a little bit of both, as Freud was a deeply complex man, as these various factoids about him prove.
The environment is one of those issues that is only going to get bigger as…
The idea of zombies, a creature that once died but is now alive again, but this time brainless and murderous, is a timeless premise. As such, it’s not just in video games and movies where you see them. They’ve been seen throughout history in various forms, sometimes in real life (allegedly.)
We’ll bet that half of you reading this thought that when you were younger, if…
When left to the unimaginative mind, remixes are little more than someone else’s song with an added drum beat. The truly creative types can take two different, often entirely unrelated, pieces of music and merge them into solid gold. Usually, the combination has no reason to succeed, and yet they often totally do.
If you’re a fan of the television show 30 Rock, you may be familiar with…
Just about everyone dreams of having that golden bronze glow, the light kiss from the…
A common theme with superhero movies these days is the creators trying to make the…
Short films made by students are usually quite horrible, usually due to the creators’ lack of experience and inability to properly judge what’s good and what’s bad. But sometimes, you get kids who know exactly what they’re doing, and produce awesome cinema as a result. Here are ten of the best to come out of the post-Y2K college generation.
Online dating is very common these days, it’s claimed that a significant percentage of all…
For most writers, there’s a feeling of catharsis that accompanies having a book published. You…
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a film that won more awards than the…
Plants sure are nice and pretty, right? Their leafy goodness adds to the ambiance of most any room. Of course, if you pick the wrong one, the only ambiance you’ll experience will be that of a fiery, unforgiving Hellscape. Because many plants are just plain not nice. In fact, some of them are just plain nasty.
My how time flies! 2013 is now officially more than half over. Now that we…
The adventures of Indiana Jones does not begin and end with the movies. On the contrary, there are a ton of books and games out there that place Indy in harm’s way, all in the name of collecting, well, just about every ancient artifact known to man. Here are ten of his most epic adventures you didn’t know about.
When you think of ’80s movies, what comes to mind (besides clashing colors and a complete lack of self-awareness as to how silly everyone looked)? Montages, that’s what! Any ’80s film worth its hoop earrings had at least one scene where months of activity was condensed into a nifty four-minute musical package. Here are 10 of the most memorable.
Onions are like a cruel joke from god, they’re an inanimate object incapable of feeling…
Silly pranks are usually reserved for children and viral videos of random people screwing with each other. The power players of the world don’t bother, right? They’re too busy being powerful, right? WRONG. The’re just as silly and screwy as the rest of us, and here;’s proof.
If there’s one thing bank’s love it’s screwing people over, well they don’t like that,…
Celebrities like to project a sanitized image and so we often don’t realize that they…