Today is the 63rd birthday of Carl Weathers, a former football player/actor who is probably best-known for playing the role of boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films. Although Weathers didn’t really go on to have the mainstream success of his Eyetalian counterpart, there are people like me who know him as more [...]
In 1949, George Orwell wrote what many people back then viewed as a social science fiction novel, titled Nineteen Eighty-Four. The setting of the story takes place in a futuristic super- state called Oceania, in a world where war, censorship, and government control/manipulation has become a part of everyday life. Well, it has been over [...]
It is very weird to shop for things via the Internet that existed prior to lazily being able to shop from the comforts of your own abode. I’ve spent the better part of this a.m. looking for Star Wars toys for my son on eBay. If I had a clue that I was playing with [...]
Richard Pryor was in Superman III. First, it is fucking amazing that there needed to be one Superman movie, much less three. But it is even more amazing that one of the funniest motherfuckers ever to cuss over a microphone in public, while getting paid for it, was a cast member. Who in the hell [...]
