Bullitts and Beers

So I’ve done my best to avoid this whole Obama-Gates-Crowley clusterfuckfest, but given that I’m connected to just about every RSS feed and social network that’s ever been created… no such luck. Also, I spend a decent amount of my time in Cambridge where the “incident” went down so its a bit of a hot [...]

Guess How Many Beers It Takes To Pitch A Complete Game

No, I’m not taking about David Wells (because that was a no-hitter), and no, I’m not talking about John Smoltz (because he can’t even last five innings). I’m talking about myself (shocking, I know). That’s right, kids, it’s time for weekend recap blog.
Surprisingly, some people live for these things, which I cannot understand. I would’ve [...]

The Deconstruction of the American Sex Symbol

Unless you’ve been living in a cave (in a fucking cave!*) for the past few years, you’ve no doubt noticed the trend in Hollywood toward shamelessly pumping out comic book/graphic novel-inspired blockbusters. Off the top of my head I can rattle off The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Sin City, 300, Superman, Spiderman 1-3, Wolverine, X-Men 1-3, [...]

Everyone Is Lying To You

I’m bored/benevolent. For those of you dirtbags, ruffians, rogues and scoundrels that prefer Blogger and Blogspot to WordPress, I’ve decided to syndicate The Dead Pool over there. I had some blogs over there, but hated the set up. It’s gotten better. It’s still not WordPress-caliber though. So for all the bells-and-whistles stick with:
http://vmannering.wordpress.com
And if you’re [...]

Nectar of the Gods

What follows is an obligatory update regarding my weekend in Vermont. I call it obligatory because so much happened that I really don’t have a choice – as a self-centered egotistical blogger – but to write about it. What’s odd is that interesting/confusing events did transpire, which for most people would be a good thing. [...]

Running of the Bull-Shit

So I was looking at pictures from the Festival of San Fermin in Spain. And I just want to make sure that I’m not the only heartless bastard that is unabashedly rooting for the bulls. I’m not joking about this, and as bad as it is to root for people to get messed up by [...]

The Day The Music Died

Having worked as a disc jockey and as a program director for WWPV 88.7FM in Burlington, Vermont I developed an appreciation for the difficulty of creating “good radio.” I’ll be the first person to say that being a DJ is not an easy gig, and not just because I’m a self-aggrandizing jack-ass (I am one, [...]

What If I Want To Stop Believin’?

When did “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey become the epicenter of youth culture? Like a good celebrity funeral, nothing brings the people together like schlitz and Steve Perry. I went out to The Burren in Somerville last night, and I ended up going alone because all of you are flakey assholes. Actually most of you [...]

Too Nice Too?

Before I get into shit, fucking delicious and There, I Fixed It are the best fucking websites on the fucking planet. If you don’t laugh at animals mao-ing down on shit and idiots jury-rigging shit, then not only do you have no fucking soul but you’re also a fucking terrorist. And I don’t negotiate with [...]

Stupidity… For Dummies

I found out that July is National Blog Posting Month, as if you needed further proof that there’s a “national month” for everything under the sun, and black people still got the shortest stick. Far be it for me to shirk one of our nation’s fine traditions like celebrity corpse-fucking and MTV-watching, so you lucky people [...]