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Customer Service Request

Dear Complaints Dept., About 7 years ago I found a coupon pressed between the pages of my favorite book titled “How Fat people make love with no social skills” This coupon was for a free McDonalds happy meal toy. I feel that this entitles me to a 7000 percent discount with your company and I [...]

Movie Review: UltraViolet

I have to clarify just how bad Ultraviolet was…Imagine The matrix performed as a Disney On Ice show. Now imagine there was a performance of Blade II (as Disney On Ice) scheduled for the same night, so instead of losing any revenue, they decided to just combine the shows, and run them simultaneously, hoping the [...]

Post-Modern American TV: More Idiot, Less Box

There was a time when one could count on American TV channels being consistent, consistently crappy, but consistent nonetheless. There was a time when, for example, the Travel Channel mostly showed travel-related programming instead of a shit-load of poker. The Learning Channel used to air programs about nature and science, not hours and hours of [...]