The first episode of season 2 of Flight of the Conchords is previewing at Funny or Die. (h/t Sepinwall.) But it won’t stay up forever. So tell Mr. Scrooge that you’ll finish balancing his ledger books in 20 minutes or so, rub your frostbitten fingers together, and enjoy. ‘Tis Christmas, after all! If you get [...]

I’ve been remiss about updating you on the flurry of American Idol news lately, mainly from not caring. Oh, I’ll still watch Idol—though I may skip the audition rounds—but I’m not certain any of the twiddling is going to change the core show much, or change the fact that it’s not the new thing anymore [...]

There’s something perfect about throwing a shoe, isn’t there? The message behind the Iraqi journalist’s pedi-missile launched at George W. Bush was culturally specific; striking someone with a shoe is a sign that the object is like the dirt under one’s feet. (The media coverage of the fall of Baghdad made much, at the time, [...]