I’ve been home in LA for two weeks in the last two and a half months. My Tivo is obese with "Lost", "Battlestar Galactica", "Top Chef", "The Office", "30...

War protests (or protests of any kind) are a tricky thing. The majority of the time they seems like a waste to me. Accomplishing little but delaying people...

While many sons and daughters will be spending May 11th showering their maternal figures with flowers, cards, handmade...

Back when I was young and foolish, my friends and I found various inventive ways to smoke weed: carrots, apples, tin foil, an empty beer can - all fairly...

Imagine sailing across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. You are hundreds of miles from the rest of humanity, cruising the North Pacific Gyre, the...

If you can count, and have mastered the Gregorian calendar, then you know that today is Cinco de Mayo. This festival of celebration and revelry proudly...

This week in Harsh Light of Day, we take a look at the upcoming film Iron Man, which I have already seen and am going to crudely savage below.

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Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably familiar with the idiocy and attention-whoring of Fred...

There is something so obvious about the choices we must make when we are in the world of single. We all know when something is "right" or "wrong" for us,...

There is the possibility of a frightening new trend on the horizon for college campuses around the country. I'm not talking about a new hazing ritual,...

This week in Harsh Light of Day, we take a look at one of the last great grindhouse films. No, I'm not...

Internet regulations. Media tycoons. Virgins. Tania Derveaux.
What do these things have in common?

I just spent two weeks in a meditation center up in the mountains. Everywhere you went there were wooden boards that said:

Listen up!
Great is the...

A know-it-all, overly aggresive busybody, fresh out of law school... The worst, right? Think of the situations were someone like this would not only be...

The Colonel and I have had very differing ideas on what fried chicken should be for quite some time now. I think it should be hot, fresh, and tasty. He...

Watching Paris Hilton have unenthusiastic sex on DVD can be had for about $19.95. Marilyn Monroe will set you back a little more.

A New York businessman...

This week in Harsh Light of Day, we're taking a second look at one of the coolest imports to come from Japan since that AZIMO robot thinger in the car commercial.

Celebrities making uninformed asinine comments is nothing new. You could easily compile a book of them. (Most likely, a paperback book with extra large...

Previously on Food Coma... In-N-Out good, Olive Garden bad. Tiny little birds tortured for the gastronomic pleasure of the rich elite and some old Popes.

I don't know what it is about these odd crook/crime stories that always interests me. I guess it's the universal situations, the ones we've seen countless...

The UK government is attempting to block registered paedophiles...

This week in Harsh Light of Day, we turn to our frosty neighbors to the north. No, children, I'm not talking about Santa and his elves. I, of course,...

Without question, this is an example of going above and beyond the call of duty:

WELLINGTON,...

There are so many horrific reminders of the current state of society, and the rapidly plummeting situations around us, that it's hard for one new development...

Like most people of our generation, I've been bouncing from one relationship to the next breakup the majority of my dating life. These are splattered with...

"... and I'm all out of bubble gum."

That classic quote is from one of the best films to come out of that horrible, coke-fueled decade we know as the...

Suri Suicide was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2007. From describing diagnoses to treatments, her online journals have detailed her...

I’d like to offer something to help you
But in the Zen school we don't have a single thing.
- Zen...

This morning, I awoke early due to rampant diarrhea caused by an overabundance of meatloaf from last night's dinner. Unable to sleep, I did what any unemployed...

I love the Old West. I greatly enjoy every aspect of it -- fact or fiction -- that has trickled down over my senses over the past 30-odd-years. Movies,...

As much as I like finding a mediocre story and adding a ton of jokes to it, sometimes a great one falls into your lap, with no heavy lifting required. Whole...

The Suicide Girls certainly didn’t start burlesque, for it is a performance art that began in the Victorian...

Hopefully, you had fun this past weekend. If you didn't, you can at least rest assured that you had a better time than Adriana...

Since we last met I’ve been busy with Anthrax, playing guitar in and co-managing Pearl, writing for a side project called Methusaleh with some lovely fellows...

Who doesn't love a vigilante? Criminals, that's who. (Sure, innocent bystanders, overworked cops and the wrongly accused probably aren't real big on them...

When the man played famously by Charlton Heston witnessed the Plagues, parted the Red Sea, and fought all those damn...

Poor Hitler... Poor, poor Hitler. (A phrase undoubtedly put "on ice" shortly after WWII and, even then, only used by his closest friends, and, perhaps,...

Sure, I'm up for a little waterboarding... Is that the one where you ride the boat's wake? On a board or whatever?

Isn't that what it sounds like? It...

"You stupid son of a bitch, you keep running your fucking mouth, I'm gonna have to shut it for you...

One of the biggest hurdles for anyone of non-standard sexual orientation interested in Buddhist practice is the Buddhist precept of not misusing sexuality.