"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" **1/2 (out of four): Flawed and ultimately forgettable, this Matthew McConaughey vehicle delivers enough laughs and touching moments to make it an enjoyable romantic comedy.

Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" has been filmed and staged so often that the story is universally familiar. In short: As a result of tri-partite hauntings a surly miser is converted into a paragon of virtue.

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How do you eat pizza?*
Add your vote and we'll see which way wins.
Of course, if you'd like to justify your preference leave a comment.

*round pizza only.

It's the unofficial tourist ad for Cleveland.

And it's made me want to go hang with all the drifters.

Visit Pick Wick and Frolic when you're there.

From The Sports/Narcotics Desk...

The New York Daily News had reports today that Alex Rodriguez has been juicing himself since high school and well into his stint with the Yankees. Hardly a surprise. There was four people/dopes that bought his "I only took steroids for a two year window in Texas" nonsense. It was obviously bollocks.

While this is news, it's not the most interesting revelation in the piece. In 2003, when A-Rod came to the Bombers, his teammates started calling him "Bitch Tits." This happened, according the Daily News,

After he put on 15 pounds in the off-season and seemed to develop round pectorals, a condition called gynecomastia that can be caused by anabolic steroids.

Fantastic. A-Rod developed some real hooters, there needed to be a new nickname. The moniker was a solid reference to our boy Meat Loaf's dramatic turn in Fight Club.

I can't wait to see the signs fans are holding up in Fenway when the Yanks visit Boston. So, from now on, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez should be referred to as Bitch Tits. Please note the change.

Thank you.

Before you start writing the script for Babe III: The Porcine Apocolypse, let's everyone take a deep breath (though not too deep of a breath if you're standing next to someone who is sneezing and/or smells like bacon) and relax. I'm talking to you VP Biden. Forget all that bull the CDC and WHO are serving up. There's only one definitive Swine Flu site you need to check out. Do I Have Swine Flu?

I tend to be a bit of a Grammar snob. You may not "know" what I'm talking about. Hell, "you" probably don't even "care". But, America has "fallen" on hard times - grammatically "speaking" - and it's time we changed our "ways". A first step is this site, which "scours" the interwebs looking for misused quotation marks.

A potential swine fly outbreak in the swinging 70's inspired a couple educational PSA's. How was the swine flu dealt problem with in 1976? With the same devices the news networks are employing now; melodramatics and fear.

Do we have a clip? Raoul! Roll the damn clip!



"Swine flu? Man I'm too fast for that to catch me!" Priceless...

"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" *** (out of four): Reliably action-packed first attempt at an X-Men origin story, succeeds largely based on having Hugh Jackman back behind the claws and facial hair.

As the title hints, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" aims to show us how the adamantium-clawed Wolverine character from the "X-Men" comics came to be. That this story has been all-but-told already in the three previous "X-Men" movies doesn't help this one. Nor does its rehashed script and gaggle of extraneous characters. What does help is Hugh Jackman, once again donning the claws and muttonchops, and a director with a surprising knack for action.

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Image credit: The Official White House Photostream.

Harry Baals underwater? Someone get a towel and then maybe a Schick Quattro.

Just some immature humor for your morning.

via Ft. Wayne News

The pizza box gets a redesign.
A useful upgrade.
That's more "green."

Someone call Pizza Hut or Papa John and tell them to get on this.