Look, We're Gonna Talk About the Gatsby Trailer Now
I...think it looks a lot like Sucker Punch.
Galifianakis as Ignatius?
Don't hold your breath. It's not really going to happen, so why get your hopes up AGAIN? At this rate, the role may wind up going to Liam Hemsworth in 2027. READ MORE
Your Next Failed Diet
The (fattening) broccoli tries to warn you with its terrible taste.* READ MORE
Behold! The 2011 Nebula Award Winners
Oh, frabjous day. Wonderfully, you can read the winning short story AND all the other short story nominees online, plus a handful of the novelettes and novellas. Do you even need to ask who won Outstanding Dramatic Production? Please. Neil Gaiman writes an episode of Doctor Who and the entire nerd internet orgasms simultaneously. READ MORE
Something Something Canada
A solemn and dignified Victoria Day to you. You may celebrate by: a) watching The Young Victoria, which is totally great in every way, b) reading up on hereditary diseases concentrated through inbreeding, or c) whatever it is you do when your country was all "oh, let's have a big messy unpleasant war instead of just waiting a few hundred years and then having a civil sort of legal separation with tea and biscuits and Governors-General."
Elderly Dogs and Babies: A Primer
My first piece of advice? Don't do it. Wait until your elderly dog is dead, or, if it's too late and you're already pregnant, find a good home for the baby (it's much easier to find a good home for a newborn baby than an elderly dog.) READ MORE
Quoth the Raven: It's Five Bucks
The Bronx Historical Society has finished restoring the Edgar Allan Poe cottage! Go, go immediately, wear black, paint circles under your eyes, take gruesome pictures. It's what he would want. That, and to not have died of rabies (or alcoholism, but it was totally rabies). READ MORE
The Painter of Tiny Trees and Blue Squares
Did you know that those ski trail maps are done by this one guy, James Niehues? It's all about finding a niche market. READ MORE
Naked Came the Stranger
RIP Mike McGrady. Nowadays, people write terrible books for fun and profit, but in the olden times, they used to do it on purpose as a political statement. READ MORE
