Cosmic American Blog

Those of us who've been waiting six years for Spike Jonze to release a follow-up to Adaptation. might possibly have to wait a little lo...

This is Hardcore was one of those great art surprises. I read about it in Spin , Rolling Stone , and maybe on Pitchforkmedia.com (although ...

Watching the Oscars last night, I was really struck by the discrepancy that I think exists between the taste of the moviegoers that Hollywoo...

From IMDB: Springer Says He Wouldn't Watch His Show Jerry Springer has admitted that if he weren't hosting hi...

Somedays the bus just doesn't want you . Yesterday was one of those days. I could taste it in the air. Chaos was brewing on Muni and I w...

An early interview and a performance of Burma Shave. Singing Old Boyfriends on The Smothers Brothers show. Frustrated in 1980, talking about...

Via my favorite comic, Penny-Arcade , I read Wager , a bet that video games will never be a culturally relevant art form. This bothers the ...

William Saletan is at his sarcastic best in a new Human Nature column. The appeal of this column is Saletan's pithy bluntness. He may b...

I haven't even been listening to them lately, but I couldn't help but be amused by the Wikipedia entry on legendarily secretive/ridi...

Considering that it's supposed to be a feel-good comedy, I knew that when I walked out of Juno feeling slightly depressed, the film had...