Entries from May 2008

May 31, 2008

“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” Propaganda

I recently came across a funny video on FunnyorDie.com of singer Aldous Snow from the British contemporary pop group Infant Sorrow singing about the letter “U.” If you don’t know who Aldous Snow is, or Infant Sorrow then you did not make a trip to the theaters to check out the hilarious film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” [...]

May 28, 2008

In the one year since I renounced my Mormon faith, and set out to tell the nation the truth about American polygamy, many people have wondered why I ever agreed to become a plural wife.

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Release date: 8/05/2008
This is an interesting one. Half of it tells the true life story of Ann Eliza Young (and family) in a family saga sort of way, even though she wrote and released two editions of her autobiography when she was alive. This book follows that path but takes [...]

May 27, 2008

One More Reason To Hate Courtney Love

I was flipping through the latest issue of Spin magazine at work the other day when I came across an ad for the Kurt Cobain Converse Collection. You read that right. Converse as part of their 100th anniversary will be releasing a line of Chuck Taylor’s with Cobain’s signature and notes lifted from his notebook. Here’s [...]

May 26, 2008

We are Walking Awesome

Happy Memorial Day.
Tomorrow will be the actual first post of Walking Awesome, a new blog dedicated to random observations, criticisms and reviews of media and pop culture. Pretty much anything is fair game and will probably be covered at some point. One day it could be a book review, the next a movie review or a post [...]