Avril Lavigne: Corporate Whore or International Slut?

"28 Weeks Later..." ** (out of four): Sequel to "28 Days Later" ditches its promising opening premise in favor of convenient plot contrivances and increasingly shaky handheld camerawork.

In 2002, “28 Days Later...” opened in theaters with the promise: “Danny Boyle reinvents zombie horror”. The talented Mr. Boyle (“Trainspotting”) did little “reinventing”, opting instead to make his creatures – who were not technically zombies - scream, vomit blood, bleed from the eyes and run really really fast. Sure we hadn’t seen zombies do that before, but was that really a reinvention? It’s not Mr. Boyle’s fault that the “r-word” was already overused by the time his workmanlike, but ultimately unsatisfying, film hit theaters. And now, five years later, we have the amusingly titled “28 Weeks Later…”. As it turns out, this sequel does even less reinventing than its predecessor, opting instead for more of the same, with decidedly mixed results.

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Talking dragons, singing bugs, Sleestaks, Bigfoot and Ruth Buzzi... a magical, musical journey through the psychedelic opening sequences of Sid and Marty Krofft, today on the veg.

You guys think you’re so sly. This is what women see when you are looking the other way, no matter how circumspect you think you appear.

The BBC released their top 10 list of the worst lyrics ever. Surprisingly, the entire Tiny Tim oeuvre was not included.

- Jared Fogle, of Subway sandwich fame, ran a porn rental service out of his dorm room. That's awesome.
- Ear wax problem? No time to waste. You only have a few short hours to buy a single Q-tip for $40.00.
- Next on the "I'm sorry I didn't do anything to stop the war, now buy my book" tour is the Daily Show.
- Jack Sparrow or Borat...Who would you rather pay $10.00 to watch sing We are the Champions?
- And you know what 5,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean is...right? This billboard confirms it.