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December 17, 2007
Thirty years ago today, Elvis Costello pissed off his record company and got himself banned from Saturday Night Live when he scrapped "Less Than Zero" several bars in and led the Attractions through this incendiary version of the then unreleased "Radio, Radio". Declan MacManus and Lorne Michaels have since...
Continue Reading "It Was Thirty Years Ago Today"December 9, 2007
"Come light the menorah, raise your hands in the air. Sip that Manischewitz like you just don't care." For an, um, alternative, Hanukkah celebration....
Continue Reading "Have a Hip Hop Hanukkah"December 6, 2007
The AMPTP's offer is laughable enough, but Fred Armisen's take on it makes me laugh in the right way.......
Continue Reading "Roger A. Trevanti Explains The AMPTP's New Proposal"December 5, 2007
How much money would it take for you to go on tv night after night and be wrong about things? Millions? Tens of millions? Even if they gave you $10 million a year could you really enjoy the caviar, Hummers, and grillz if you knew that you were rollin...
Continue Reading "Bill O. Gets it Wrong about The War - Again"December 3, 2007
The overwhelming support the writers have received during the strike has been really encouraging. Look who's showing their solidarity now!......
Continue Reading "Sorry, Internet"Advertisement: LAist Continues Below!
December 2, 2007
In 1994 I fell in love with this Soul Coughing song about Los Angeles, and to this day still snicker with a kind of savvy delight when frontman Mike Doughty gets to the line: "We are all in some way or another going to Reseda someday...to die." Come on....
Continue Reading "Soul Coughing: "Screenwriter's Blues" "

