In 2006, Fox canceled what was then my favorite show, Arrested Development. It wasn’t a sudden thing by any means. Though it had won I think more than one Emmy and received widespread critical acclaim, the show never really caught on, in part because the network kept moving its timeslot.…

On the way to work this morning, for no reason whatsoever, I had a Primordial song stuck in my head. Well, maybe it was because I saw the Irish post-black metallers a couple weeks back and their stuff at its best is just catchy enough to resonate that long after…

The music industry experienced two significant deaths in the last couple weeks. First, of country music legend George Jones, who died on April 26 at 81, and second, of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died May 2 at the age of 49 of liver failure.

I’m not one for mourning…

The Barry O. Show

I just finished watching President Obama’s speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now—because that’s just the kind of hip-to-the-news, switched-on cat you are—but just in case someone not so clued-in should happen to pick up The Aquarian this…

The thing about terrorism is it has been shown time and time again to not work. Oh sure, there’s some mention of who took credit for whatever bombing it was this week here or abroad, and the perpetrator if they’re alive get put on trial or more likely get killed…

Oh hi! Come right in. I’m guessing you saw the house on Zillow? Isn’t the future great? Well, this is it. What’s that? Yes, I know we only put two pictures of the exterior online, and that they were taken from down the street and out of focus, but that’s…

What is it about death that makes us all drop everything and uncritically praise somebody? I’ve never understood that impulse, and so as I read the reactions to the death of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from Britain’s Labour Party, the heralding of her achievements by those who worked…

A while back, my wife and I did the math on it, and determined that by the time I turn 33 in 2014, we will have been together for more than half our lives. I’m not on my own often, but this past weekend—brilliant as she is—she flew to take…

I was thinking the other day about Mitt Romney. You remember him—living tissue over cybernetic skeleton? The white robot Republicans trumped up as their candidate, spent months trying to dismantle and then finally went with anyway to try and oust President Obama? Yeah, that’s the guy.

Not the most timely…

OMG! This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq! Remember “shock and awe?” It’s been a decade already!

Oh, how the time flies! Why it seems like only yesterday we all tuned into CNN—remember CNN? Simpler times!—to see Baghdad’s infrastructure decimated by…