66% of THE JO-TEL is “losing it Scalia style”

Well, I’ll tell you, Shakespeare Month, while at times harrowing, has been largely a success. After the momentum of the first week subsided, the Month careened dangerously out of control during the second week when the mere utterance of “Lawrence Olivier” in conjunction with “Richard III” frightened away all viewers except for myself, in […]

Werner Herzog (real name: Werner H. Stipetic) was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw any films, television, or telephones as a child.  He started traveling on foot from the age of fourteen. He made his first phone call at the age […]

“Nobody is SHITTING inside MY WIFE!”
- Unknown guy in office discussion of intra-uterine meconium
(Quote courtesy of sweet, be-sandjarred Linda)

I’ve been on a dry streak lately with the blog. I’m pretty busy lawyering and trying to teach a law school class at the same time. I’m also filled with apprehension regarding some big career changes that I plan to make. I’m also lazy. Just wanted to say, though, thanks in general […]

Last night some of us went down to the local bar to have drinks for Hip E.’s birthday. Then we came home and tried to watch Grigori Kozintsev’s three-plus hour version of King Lear. Pretty cool from what I saw. A rather bleak take on the play, and the subtitles were in […]

Japanese game shows are incredible. That just sort of goes without saying. “Certainlyyyyyyyyy, we can all agree on that,” one might say.
But as if having the host of this show wear a half red/half white suit (bow tie and bowler hat included) wasn’t amazing enough, they went the extra forty-two miles […]

I look at this and all I see is cardigan.

“Three weeks ago my girl Tina Fey, she came on the show and she declared that ‘Bitch is the New Black.’ You know I love you, Tina; you know you my girl. But I have something to say: Bitch may be the New Black, but Black is the new President, bitch.”
- Tracy Morgan […]

Hey you. Yes you Fantom External Hard Drives. At one point I had lots (400GB) of music that was great and that I stored in you. However because of your shittiness my hard drive crashed back in January 2007 and I termed the loss of four years worth of music “The Holocaust”, which […]