Day: August 22, 2006

Instead of a pen, some writers attempt to increase their street cred by claiming to use a typewriter. Unless the writer is over sixty, this is a lie. After all, deliberately using an outmoded form of communication instantly makes you prestigious, and these writers know that. Personally, I like to do all my writing on the side of an abandoned cave. Anything more modern, and I feel it just dehumanizes my writing.

Eriq La Salle is reuniting with NBC for “The Four Next Door,” an apocalyptic comedy project…[that] chronicles the exploits of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who are forced to blend in and live among humans after arriving 10 ears too early for the end of the world.

Everyone knows hot dogs aren’t exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists find they may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one’s risk for cancer.

Somebody really ought to tell Takeru Kobayashi.