A Brave New Password
Ah, passwords. They’re our protectors. Our safety blankets. They’re good and we love them. Sorta. As we all know, nearly everything we do nowadays—from playing games to checking our office desktops to downloading cellphone apps to paying bills to tweeting our Twitter peeps—is a big pile of constantly flowing data that’s buzzing around in this […]
What Some Teens Don’t Want You to See
It may not rot your teeth or send you out on secret late-night trips to purchase baggies full of some illegal substance, but porn addiction is a train wreck waiting to happen. And it looks like it’s a bigger problem for kids than we may want to admit. I recently stumbled on an ABC Nightline […]
Mommy, Mommy, I Want to Be That Dolly!
There’s a new trend hitting the web that, I’ve got to say, feels really … disturbing. It’s this whole thing with young girls transforming themselves into living dolls or anime cartoons. I know, I know, this isn’t really anything new. We’ve had Lady Gaga and women striving to achieve Barbie-like perfection through plastic surgery for […]
A Moment of Silents
Last week, I tossed out a little gripe about 3-D. This week I’m on to silent films. Don’t worry, there will be no rent clothes or gritted teeth over ancient cinema, I promise. See? I’m smiling. This past weekend, I took a trip to Denver to partake of our local Silent Film Festival. It was […]
Occupy 3-D
In this season of political grumbles and social gripes, I’m taking a well-needed and long-in-the-coming stand. I’m am officially raising a protest against … 3-D movies and all the headachey eyestrain they stand for! I’ve got my signs ready, I’ve packed a lunch and I’m ready to set up a tent city. Let’s go! You […]
Bringing Out the Troll in Us
I think it’s time we admit it: The Internet makes it easier for us to be nasty. Now, don’t get all riled up. I’m not hating on the Internet. And I’m not saying that it creates haters. Nope. I’m simply saying that with all its “likes”, “friends,” “followers” and “favorites,” the Internet can still be […]
The Gullible Among Us
P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” According to a study published recently in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, however, it turns out that he was being conservative. In fact, in the U.S. alone, there’s a sucker born just about every 8 seconds. And in case you didn’t catch it, that covers […]
Hollywood Needs You
It has long been stated by the really smart heavy thinkers in the know that there are only a certain small number of basic plotlines in existence. And these basic stories are said to be repeatedly reshaped into every legend, book, screenplay and brilliant idea scribbled on a diner napkin that we’ve ever known or […]
Call of the Wild … ly Famous
We, the people, have always had an affection for those in the spotlight: the famous. Ever since the first scruffy human guy shuffled back to his clan, pushed his Bieber-ish locks aside and grunted about his near-death brush with a sabre-toothed tiger (making all the bone-in-their-hair females swoon), the tendency to crown the famous and […]
Marilyn at 86
The other day I spotted a young girl, maybe 10 or 11, walking through the supermarket with her mom. Nothing out of the ordinary there, of course. What got my attention, though, was the fact that this cute little kid was wearing a Marilyn Monroe T-shirt. And that brought to mind a whole slew of […]