Category Archives: contest

Share Your Best Story…

There are few human pleasures with quite the sanguine appeal of shopping online for that shiny new gizmo. The downside, of course, is the risk to your plastic. If you found a way to pay for the toys without sharing … Continue reading

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Does This Make My Ass Look Big??

Those of you so blessed as to live among the resplendent glories of New York will know that two dedicated Geeks have just emerged after 123 hours in a plexi-glass bubble in Times Square, watching non-stop movies to win the … Continue reading

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Oscar lost a friend…

This is truly a sad day. As I reported recently, GM has abandoned plans to be part of the Oscars next year. Today, AdAge has the news that the Korean car maker, Hyundai, has taken all of their spots. This, … Continue reading

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Is This Really Our Future??

Following on from yesterday’s story about the risk of an Actors strike, today brings news of yet another nail in the coffin of the craft as whole. As both of my regular readers know, I hate ‘reality’ television with a … Continue reading

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Emmys…Failure on an Epic Scale!

Last night, this country was subjected to one of the most boring, incompetent, ego-saturated intellectual vacuums in the history of this or any other sentient race. When you’re sixty you’re expected to be a little slow and forgetful. After fifty-nine … Continue reading

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MTV Scrapes the Barrel….Again

In what may be their dumbest, most dangerous and calculated attempt to boost their ratings to the dizzying heights of double figures, MTV is now casting a new “Reality” show where impressionable teens will be required to suffer borderline-anorexia in … Continue reading

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