Zoo (2007) movie review

Director: Robinson Devor
Starring: John Paulsen, Coyote, Russell Hodgkinson
Genre: documentary, indie
Release Date: April 27, 2007 (NY)

Okay, you’re going to think I’m a sicko, but when Chris told me there was a documentary made circumscribing events involving a richie being humped to death by a horse, I asked him to track the sucker down. Morbid curiosity [...]

Did your child eat battered cows?

“Downer Cows”, or cattle much too weak to stand on their own, left to lay in their own (and fellow cows’) feces for hours, obviously have a higher risk of disease, obviously are in excruciating pain. Less obvious is how workers for Westland/Hallmark Meat Company continued to illegally and inhumanely kick, shock, and drag [...]

TRAILER WATCH . Lust, Caution, 3:10 to Yuma, Darjeeling Limited and more

Here are a few more of trailers I came across on the web. Also, scroll down for a Panda Prison Break ( I didn’t know where else to place it).
Lust, Caution . New Ang Li, featuring Tony Leung and (ugh) Joan Chen. Plot involves a love story and assassination plot in occupied Shanghai. Check [...]

“Wild Horses” Rolling Stones to save horses

My college friend had a theory that no one, NO ONE can be a simultaneous Beatles and Rolling Stones fan. “Just ask anyone,” she quipped convincingly, “they will either prefer one or the other; no one can love or be a big fan of both.” I was skeptical, but at the time I [...]

Palo Alto’s Spago to close

Shoo shoo Spago! Wolfgang Puck just isn’t welcome in Palo Alto anymore. Ten years of the King of California cuisine was enough. June 1st is the closing date for the iconic ritzy restaurant on the fringe of downtown Paly. In a press release, senior managing partner Tom Kaplan announced that the [...]

No North Pole? Earth melts right before our eyes

Global warming was supposed to be at its worst in 2050. That seemed like an alarmingly short time away, but studies now show that the Arctic ice cap (aka: the North Pole) is melting 30 years ahead of predictions, which means unbearable temperatures are just a little over a decade away. That means [...]

Knut is dead! Thursday midday.

“Knut is dead! Thursday midday.” That’s what an anonymous handwritten fax threatened today at the Berlin Zoo. What made it even worse is that the target is completely oblivious to any danger; he just kept rolling around in the dirt in his cage and chewed on his friend’s fingers. Knut is a [...]

Google loves dogs and dog people

No confirmation on this just yet, but I heard that Google’s hiring criteria has just gotten even weirder. If you weren’t lucky enough to fall into the nepotism or Stanford alumni hiring line, you may have been scrutinized for all the little details including your college GPA, a practice more commonly reserved for high-end [...]

It’s a Pottery Barn Halloween, Charlie Brown

Okay maybe moving to the damn suburbs has done it to me, but I’ve been frequenting Stanford Pottery Barn; to browse mind you, and mostly because Illuminations closed and they used to have the coolest Halloween decorations.
I’ve noticed Pottery Barn’s Halloween decorations are not at all what you’d expect coquettish housewives and soccer moms to [...]

Bad Day for Ducks and Deer

I just want to take a breather from the political and entertainment reviews and just ask for a moment of silence. Although maybe some of you or maybe many of you are not animal lovers or do not own a pet, you must know that sometimes Nature can be hecka cruel.
This morning while downstairs [...]

Life is Like a Mosh Pit…

I’ve been doing it all wrong. Smash into something and then hold onto it.

Will the U.S. Protect or Murder Polar Bears?

Of course, whenever Nature or Flora/Fauna and the govt are concerned, controversy erupts. Many believe polar bears are not a threatened species and that we should just keep planning to pummel through the Artic to exploit our natural resources and, basically, inadvertently kill off the bears. Read more HERE.
… And of course, the industrial [...]