Cosmic American Blog

Antonius Block: I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the eveni...

St. Louis mayor says no to "Ike Turner Day" Also: Attempted exorcism ends in man's death Interestingly, the man who died was n...

Every now and then I'll be flipping through the channels during dinner and I'll catch the opening of Cops . Doing so recently, it re...

English hotel rooms are tiny. If you get a room with two beds, one of them will be a foldout sofa with no frame--a mushy lumpy mass of sub-...

I was chatting with the bassist for the Chinatown Bakeries the other day when we began discussing good bass playing. We asked each other who...

Allow me to go out on a limb here and make a bold statement: The guitar-bass-drums style "rock band" is dead. Dead. Dead as a fuck...

I caught the last hour of this on cable last night. As others have said, it was one of the most unfortunately cast movies ever made. None ...

Death was simply not enough to stop Richard Nixon. In Slate there's a newly-released memo that Nixon apparently wrote in 1970, in which...

I woke today with an overwhelming urge to listen to Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello. This is a morning/evening album. It's best when...

I used to follow the Tomatometer religiously. Whenever a film had more than a 90% rating I would always assume that I almost absolutely had ...