Old Movies Never Die

I love those cheesy 1970s fantasy movies made from Victorian novels that always seemed to star Doug McClure. My all-time favorite is "The Land That Time Forgot", but I have to confess I was disappointed with the two formulaic sequels, "The Land That Newsweek Forgot" and "The Land That US News And World Report Forgot".

Rational explanations for movie cliches (part 1)

Being the rational, analytical person that I am, I seek logical explanations for movie cliches... this is the first in what will probably be a long series...

Cliche: Any time a police officer mentions that he has only a few days left before retirement, you can guarantee that he will be dead within twenty minutes.

Rational Explanation: City police departments employ secret death squads to hunt down and kill police officers close to retirement. This provides a huge saving on pension benefit costs.

Middle Age

Middle age is when you are too old to sell your body for sex but too young to sell your body for science.

Only In America (part 457 of a continuing series)

Near my home in Virginia there is a church advertising a Drive Thru Nativity.

For my British readers, there is nothing I can add that would make this any funnier. Sometimes, satire is rendered redundant.

For my American readers, if you don't know why this is funny, nothing I can say will help you.

A disturbing thought about Batman

You often see Batman running to the Batcave, and running to the Batmobile, and running to the Batplane... but you never, ever see him running to the Bathroom. Why is that? Adult diapers?

ICANN has IDNs

I can has IDNs?

Superbowl

People say "I only watch the Superbowl for the ads", as if that were something to be proud of.