Most people have had to do it at least once. Whether you are in retail, you are an independent contractor making up hours or you just got unlucky this year, you may find yourself at work on a holiday.  Here is how to look on the bright side while you are stuck at work during the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays. Photo by: LittleDan77 (Flickr Creative Commons) There are as many reasons as there are jobs as to why people have to work or perhaps even choose to work during the holidays. While you may feel like you are the... Read More

Although this website is American, I’d like to talk about the issues surrounding censorship in Australia, specifically in relation to video games. The types of discussions this topic generates are universal and should be thought about even if you do not live in the country it is directly affecting. As with all new forms of media, or new artistic mediums, controversy surrounds the content that should and shouldn’t be displayed. For society to come to grips with new media a period of scrutiny must ensue. During this... Read More

Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The event has special meaning for me since I was living and working in Berlin when it happened.  I had been there for over a year when The Wall came down, and I stayed for almost a year afterward. This photo shows a portion of The Wall that stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate.  I was at that exact place many times before November 9, 1989 both on personal time roaming around the city and while escorting official visitors.  In the days and weeks after November... Read More

I’ve read both of President Obama’s books,* Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. I recommend them to anyone who has an interest in politics generally or Barack Obama in particular. I doubt that reading the books will change anyone’s basic opinion of the President and his political views. However, after reading them the extreme perceptions of some are likely to become more reasonable. One issue that has generated speculation among some conservatives is whether Obama wrote the books himself.... Read More

This game has sat in my Xbox much more than any other game I have ever owned. It came out two years ago to this month and thousands of people still log on every night to play. Very rarely will you ever see the same person twice in one room once he/she has left yours. Online multiplayer for Call of Duty 4 is said to have the best online play over any other game. Unless you’re a Halo 3 players, then you more than likely think Halo 3 is better. Sorry, but you’re wrong (just saying). The matchmaking is much faster... Read More

My friend Benny Woo’s pop has a real flat dick and has to eat those boner pills called Viagra all the time so he can bang his new girlfriend Tina. I never met her but I guess she’s like 25 and a hellcat in the sack. Benny says she’s one hot chick with massive gazungas and an upside down heart for an ass. …………“I’m hoping she gets to be my step mom real soon,” he told me, a faraway look in his eyes. …………Benny’s pop is like 55 but he’s loaded and drives around in a Vette so I’m not surprised... Read More

Harold and Maude. I don’t know if you’ve seen this “classic film” but if not, let me save you the time and sum it up for you. Teenage boy obsessed with going to funerals and faking his own suicide meets 80 year-old woman also obsessed with death. They steal a tree and next thing you know they are sleeping together. Then she dies for real and he decides to stop faking his own death. A real knee slapper, that one. This is cougar-ville taken to a whole new level. A scene from the classic film, "Harold and Maude." In... Read More

When society hears the word ‘art’ and ‘computers’ in the same sentence they automatically cringe in disgust. People tend to see art as a purely humanistic creation and shun the involvement of any computational processing. The use of computers, some believe, take away from, or take over, the input humans have into their own expression. What I aim to do in this post is to show people that this is not the case. Indeed, I aim to show that the medium of interactive media has more potential for the expression of the human... Read More

Television news features unadulterated partisan entertainment, and it never has a day without shocking, blood-soaked image after image presented by people who love to lie. For some, TV “news” is the only news. But others tune into CNN, Fox, or MSNBC for other reasons. One reason, perhaps, because of the incredibly attractive news woman who makes the aftermath of a Pakistani bomb seem like filler about newborn puppies. There aren’t too many reasons to turn on the TV these days. These ladies might change... Read More

The most delicious political news is that Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas again! He’ll be running in the Democratic primary, and he’s convinced that he can beat either incumbent Governor Rick Perry or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, depending on which of them wins the Republican primary, which he calls “the clash of the plastic titans.” Kinky might not do any better as a governor than Jesse Ventura did in Minnesota, but at least the campaign will be equally entertaining. In other political... Read More

In the world of sexuality, perhaps nothing is so misunderstood as Premature Ejaculation. It is the butt of an endless onslaught of jokes and the cause of just as many worries, as men around the world continue to lose all kinds of confidence with every new penis drug that is released. Masters and Johnson defines PE as the condition where a man ejaculates before his sex partner achieves orgasm, in more than fifty percent of their sexual encounters. Other sex researchers have defined premature ejaculation as occurring if the... Read More

Little Dragon Machine Dreams by Little Dragon – This is the second studio album from the electronic quartet from Sweden. The band mostly shines with New Wave vibes mashed up with danceable drum machine beats. Little Dragon stays content with its soaring ambient sounds, like in “Feather,” allowing singer Yukimi Nagano to dish out wispy vocals. The record suddenly slips into a grey morose in “Thunder Love.” And although Nagano’s breathy, melancholy words are hard to decipher, the track... Read More

Obama the incrementalist is the headline of a column written by Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post a few days ago. Kurtz emphasized what I wrote in a previous article, The Faux Golden Boy. If I can be forgiven for quoting myself, I said that Obama is “the kind of modern man…who is mostly image without accomplishment…. He ducks and weaves his way around obstacles, never confronting challenges head-on, never engaging in direct combat that can wound or kill.” This is essentially the picture of Obama... Read More

Director: John Hillcoat Running Time: 119 Minutes Rated: R *This is a review from the London Film Festival. This film will release in the US on Nov. 25th. The end of the world is not a very ‘new’ topic in the film world.  With cinema like I Am Legend to another upcoming apocalyptic festival, 2012, the genre itself seems pretty full as of late.  The Road is another entry into the over saturated genre, yet the approach diverges from the norm in that it does not focus on the effects or the reasons behind the film’s... Read More