The World Series is a fickle mistress. Billions are spent, the mental well-being of entire cities teeter on whether she’ll deign to even dance with you once, and with only two slots on her card, it’s a seven-night reality show better than anything Jeff Probst could imagine in his wildest expletive-deleteding dreams. Even the mighty [...]

I’ve been doing the Wednesday trivia at Dempsey’s since Rutherford B. Hayes (not the Tea Party guy, the other one) was President, and a lot of mishegas has gone down, the vast majority of it good. Even the occasional moments of drama have served the greater good. They’ve taught me how to do this job [...]

So it seemed that people were in better mood overall than normal last night. Perhaps it was just that the Yankees had managed to stay alive earlier that afternoon, and everyone could just relax and have a few drinks and answer a few questions about, among other things, which Buzzcocks song the Fine Young Cannibals [...]

Last night felt a little tentative, but that might just be because the Yankees were having their butts handed to them by the Rangers, and everyone was a little distracted. It happens. (Look, even growing up in Toronto my whole life, I understand that the Yanks winning makes everyone happier, so I’m down with the [...]

In honor of this being the 41st birthday of the emotionally stunted genius Randolph Severn “Trey” Parker III, here are the two animated shorts he made in 1992 that led to the creation of an empire that kept Comedy Central in business until Jon Stewart figured it all out. The two Christmas-themed shorts both featured [...]

It was originally called “The Whale,” after its title character, and was first published on October 18, 1851. Inspired by an actual white whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile (named “Mocha Dick,” after the island off of which it was first seen in 1810), its story made many adventure [...]