This morning I saw a bit of Reading Rainbow and thought two things: What if Reading Rainbow is a huge payola scam for certain publishers? LeVar Burton in a back room shaking down Random House …

First there was The Holy Tango of Poetry, and now we have the much more profane version which includes Jewel.

Last Comic Standing last night was a travesty. Dat's act was immensely less funny than Dave's, yet Dat won the audience's vote, and I cheered. I cheered because he's Asian, the only Asian in the …

One subscriber signed up for one of Salon Premium's benefits, a free six-month subscription to Mother Jones, and accidentally called it "Mother Hubbard."

Saw a lovely The American Experience last night, with that dish Simon Schama talking about an 1849 murder at Harvard and the inevitable historian's problems of anachronism. In the film, Simon Schama hems and haws …

More good Achewood strips: loathing and fear.

Lore F.S. of Brunching Shuttlecocks, as well as Leonard and probably John, turned me on to Achewood, a fun web comic. Funny and sexual-situation strip; and then there's the fact that Roast Beef (a sad …

Via Circadian Shift, an obscene and funny memo. This led me to discover that most people on the net remember the line "this ain't no disco" from some Talking Heads song I've never heard, while …

My boss Patrick was ahead of the curve on this one, forwarding an early report around the office and urging us to watch the Real video. The aspect of the Capital Times story that struck …

On the train to Denver I saw a part of Daredevil, which was hilariously bad. But I also saw and really enjoyed Chicago. I'll have to talk more about the fascinating narrative and argument of …