Snopes.com has already addressed this hoax. Basically: PRWeb will put out any public release, even fake ones…and Yahoo for some reason ran with this as a real story.

I’ve been watching a lot of SpikeTV lately and I keep seeing these ads for Hi-C Sour Blast. It’s the ad with the woman kicking a giant tongue (not as gross as it sounds: it’s a man in a giant tongue suit) and then dancing with it. Have you seen it? Here’s what’s bugging me:…

Actor Tony Randall Dies at 84 The only thing I can think to say right now is, “WOW! Tony Randall!” Ever since Tony did a guest spot on a Tom Hanks episode of Saturday Night Live, I cannot see a photo of Randall without hearing Mr. Short Term Memory saying, over and over again, “WOW!…

I wrote recently about the “Slow Glass” short story. Bill Forsyth e-mails me with more information about it: I thought I was the only one who was familiar with “slow glass.” Are you aware that Shaw also wrote a full novel about “Slow Glass”? I think it was titled “Other Days, Other Eyes”…He really did…

No one is outbidding me!

Quien es mas macho? Famed actor Ricardo Montalban will have a Hollywood theater named after him. It opens this weekend. William Shatner spoke on the occasion, and Sean Connery told him that he was the man now, dog.

Honda’s It Must Be Love

Back in the late 1970s, you may remember, National Public Radio adapted the Star Wars movie as a radio play. I tuned in every day that it was on. One day, after it was over, there was a science fiction anthology show, and I heard a story called “Slow Glass.” In the years since I…

I just love Photoshop contests, like this one for “detouching” celebrities like Halle Berry. (I once tried to detouch Halle Berry, but the bodyguard made me stand back.)

Or could Michael Jackson be Helena Bonham Carter’s monkey lady Ari from Planet of the Apes? Or even one of the Evil Dead? Link courtesy of Awful Plastic Surgery.