"Look at this lunatic! He's lumping both of us into a single post!" "It could be worse. He could have just picked you!" "I don't know...

Eowyn, daughter of Eomund, Shieldmaiden of Rohan, is easily Tolkien's best, most fully-realized female character. Arwen is too...

Nothing ever happens to Jim, at least, nothing interesting. Jim's Journal by Scott Dikkers (a co-founder of The Onion) has been running...

I am among those annoying souls who read the Game of Thrones books before ever seeing any of the HBO adaptations. My response to most of...

The night was humid. Most probably recall Anne Ramsey from her performance as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies, but I prefer her as Momma...

Herman Melville wrote Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Short Story of Wall Street in 1853. It is the tale of a nonentity, an office clerk who...

Eddie Murphy was such a huge star in the 1980s. It's hard to remember sometimes these days, when he can't find his rhythm (other than his...

The Myth Adventures series, initially written by Robert Aspirin alone and later in collaboration with Jodi Lynn Nye, are the silliest...

In 2003, Jack Black was still something of a novelty act that had not yet worn thin, a careening amalgam of Belushi and Shatner that...

I devoured Greek mythology as a boy, in whatever form I could find it. Doris Gates' Penguin versions, Barbara Picard's outstanding...

A nod to here to the opening of the 2016 Olympic Games with a detour back into guilty pleasure territory. 1992's romcom The Cutting Edge...

I have enjoyed James Thurber's fables since I was a boy, as well as his perfectly simple sketched illustrations. (His depiction of...