What’s that I hear? Could that be the sound of a whole new crop of celebrities eager to humiliate themselves just for some TV time? I mean, to raise money for charity. Last season, if you’ll recall, ended up as a masterpiece of hilarity and sheer “How is this really […]
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BEST OF spunkybean: A Beautiful Gory Display – The Watchmen (from October 16, 2008)
*** Due to our excitement about this weekend’s release of The Watchmen, spunkybean is proud to re-run EJ’s column reviewing and explaining the two-decade love affair with this classic graphic novel. *** Thanks to the trailer for next year’s Watchmen movie that ran with The Dark Knight, DC Comics has […]
NEW! Reality Round-Up: Survivor, The Amazing Race, Hell’s Kitchen (Mar 6)
The other day, while EJ and I were taking in a spirited game of ping-pong at spunkybean Headquarters, Myndi came running into the office looking like she’d seen an Omarosa. She was visibly shaken. We tried asking her what was wrong. I rolled an office chair over to her and […]
LOST Revisited: Season 5, Episode 8: “LaFleur” (Mar 5)
Remember how they promoted this episode as being all about the Kate / Sawyer reunion? It turned out to be way more interesting than that! Before I start, spunkybuddy Larry Young dropped some knowledge on me last week that I need to share. (He actually had two good calls, one […]
Half-Ass DVD Review: “Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder”
If you haven’t seen Futurama, it’s an animated series from Simpsons creator Matt Groening about a delivery boy who’s accidentally frozen cryogenically on December 31, 1999. When he thaws out 1,000 years later, he’s still a delivery boy, but now there’s a spaceship involved. His best friend is an alcoholic […]
The Most Awesome Thing I Saw Last Week (Feb 24-Mar 2)
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for us to assess the many Awesome things we saw last week. A mammoth undertaking, considering this was a week in which Richard Burgi made a guest appearance on Nip/Tuck as a guy who, well, humps furniture, and Larry King said the following line […]