Ross A. Lincoln

It's no secret that 2008 has been a massive, epic failure of a year. With a couple of glaring exceptions, practically everything that could possible have gone wrong has gone miserably and completely wrong. It's almost as if the last 8 years was nothing more than a time release poison pill set to take effect at approximately... um, what time is it right now? You name it and it probably sucked - why, so much...

For those of you too busy standing in line for unemployment checks to snark at celebs online, former LA resident and occasional actress Gwyneth Paltrow is now the full time proprietor of GOOP, the most unintentionally hilarious guide to better living since the 1970s edition of the Joy of Sex1. Each week, Gwyneth sends out a GOOP newsletter with helpful suggestions on how to live the good life. Clearly they're culled from a time capsule...

UPDATE BELOW THE JUMP. Braving unseasonably (and unbearably) hot summer-like weather*, thousands of equality supporting Angelenos gathered this morning in Downtown to protest the nefarious assault on the civil rights of gay Americans, the much reviled Proposition 8. It was a fitting end to a week that's seen a tremendous (albeit much too late) backlash against the measure - Protests at Mormon temples, a boycott of a longstanding staple of West Hollywood dining - even...

No insult instended, but it would be tremendously foolish not to see Eath Sucks. Think about Earth Girls Are Easy, by way of Little Shop of Horrors, combined with Phantom of the Paradise. If you can kind of conjure up what that might be like, you're halfway to getting a sense of Earth Sucks, an hilarious* (and kinda brilliant) take on the history of Rock N Roll, America during the Bush era, and the...

Good news for Californians opposed to enshrining bigotry into our constitution - a recent statewide poll published by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that support for the Prop 8, has declined significantly. According to their results, "Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, is losing (52% to 44%) among likely voters." This comes as a huge relief after a month of hearing that California was dangerously teetering back into Dixie style...

I'm trying not to get too excited about this thing - I bear deep emotional scars* from '04 and '00 (not to mention '98 and '94). And if you recall, our team also had the superior online mockery back in 04. But damned if the sheer volume of really effective Making-McCain-look-ridiculous mockery isn't making me hopeful. Also, attention SNL: This guy is way funnier than the douche you have impersonating Obama right now. Hire...

No, We're not talking about the proposed 700 Billion Dollar giveaway/complete abbrogation of checks and balances that Henry Paulson is trying to mad-dog out of congress this week*. We're referring to the latest diseased rumblings from the filth merchants who call themselves Studio Executives. In this case, much like a frat boy found date-raping someone, who then reacts to the horrified shrieks by asking "want a piece?", Universal has announced that some hackneyed reprobates...

I'll be honest with you - Prior to seeing them live, I couldn't muster up enough emotion to form an opinion about Vampire Weekend. I didn't have anything against them, but they were firmly in the won't-turn-it-off-if-it-comes-on-the-radio/wouldn't-make-fun-if-they-were-on-a-friend's-iPod category - likable, definitely; terrible, definitely not, but I found them unremarkable, inoffensive and competently un-mind blowing. After seeing them perform at the Wiltern last thursday, I can report that my opinion was somewhat misguided. No, I...

In a stunning twist of logic that has breathed new life into the once moribund TV series John McCain For President, Republican Presidential Candidate and POW-Tourrette's sufferer John McCain has selected Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin to be his Vice Presidential running mate. During weeks of intense media speculation that can only be described as "compulsory", "not as relevant as the interest in Obama's decision", or "barely interesting", McCain played coy, leading on a number...

The California Supreme Court has continued its longstanding track record of providing inexhaustible fodder for the right wing chain e-mail we all get from our conservative relatives, today handing down a verdict that, in fact, doctors cannot deny heath care simply because an invisible Sky God says so: California's high court on Monday barred doctors from withholding medical care to gays and lesbians based on religious beliefs, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination...