In Less Than 24 Hours, Bronson Pinchot Firmly Establishes Himself as the World’s Most Annoying Blogger

Last week the actor Bronson Pinchot, perhaps best known as Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers, burst back on the public scene with a brutally honest and tremendously endearing AV Club interview in which he insinuated that Tom Cruise was a raging homophobe during the filming of Risky Business, Bette Midler is a raging bitch and Denzel Washington is a pompous asshole. Then just yesterday a blog written by Bronson Pinchot popped up on Tumblr and I now feel overcome with an unrelenting urge to murder Bronson Pinchot. Read more »

On Longing for the Good Ole Days of Photography

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Earlier in the week I ran across a quote attributed to legendary photographer Sam Haskins. It goes: “A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said ‘I love your pictures – they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.’ He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: ‘That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.’” This quote got me to thinking a bunch about modern photography, more specifically on how it seems, at least to me, that the proliferation of digital cameras is killing it. Read more »

Behold, the Most Horsesh*t ‘News’ Story in the History of Journalism

Earlier today, as I plowed through my extensive collection of bookmarked online information sources, I made my daily stop (Well, not really) over at Hudson, New York’s Register Star, the newspaper serving the fine folks up in Dutchess and Columbia counties, where apparently it’s a painfully slow news day. Read more »