One name is cycling around the media these days and that name belongs to the sexy female star in Transformers 2. If you haven’t guessed it by now, yes… it’s “that girl.” Megan Fox, yeah…the sexy, curvy, confident, bomb shell that’s taken the media by storm and if you haven’t heard about her, then where have you been?! However attractive she may be, that’s not what this little article is about. In fact, we’re not even going to talk about her physical features at all. Not interested in reading further, you say? Can’t respect her without her looks getting in the way, you say? Keep reading, maybe your mind will change.

I happened to pick up my friend’s Entertainment Weekly and on…

So another of the big summer movies has been released, and it’s one of the big ones that I personally have been waiting for. I, like many people my age, was really into the Transformers growing up, either being the toys or the cartoon. So when I heard they were making a Transformers movie, I was super excited. And for me, hearing that Michael Bay was doing it, I was OK with it. I really liked the Bad Boys movies, not so much Pearl Harbor. You go into a Michael Bay movie, with the mind set, that the action is going to be awesome and the story will be not so awesome. So I told you that just to kind…

Where were you when it all changed?
If you read the title of this post and understood what it meant then you know where you were and you know what I am talking about.
But what changed?
The title would suggest that I am talking about the elections in Iran. Which in a way I am but the change I am refering to is how we now receive our news.
A little background.
On June 12th Iran held their presidential elections. On June 13th it was announced that the landslide winner was incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Supporters of reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi angered at the results and with accusations of voter fraud took to the streets in protest. The protests which were mostly non violent…

Somehow a couple from Berks County PA has become fodder for every tabloid in America and the targets of vitriol and loathing.  I have heard people and commentators arguing that the Gosselins should have know that this type of paparazzi and media coverage would be the natural consequence of them having a reality show on TLC. Really? Do the Teutels fight off the invasive paparazzi attacks that seem to follow Kate?  Is Ami James on TMZ every five minutes like John? It is ridiculous to expect the Gosselins to have had the foresight to predict something that has never happened before.

I must admit I have seen exactly one episode, this year’s season premiere of “John and Kate Plus 8” and have very little…

Y: The Last Man, a 60 issue collection of comic books by Brian K. Vaughn (Lost) and Pia Guerra, has been popping up around the mainstream this past year in a couple places. Its first issue’s cover art is one of the pop culture-infused posters hanging in Chuck Bartowski’s bedroom on the NBC series Chuck. But what really got me really wanting to read Y: The Last Man was its appearance on Lost.

Every couple of episodes, the mind-bending TV series will show a character reading something that may give a clue to the show. The fifth season episode “316″ brought a second Spanish comic book into the mythology by showing Hurley peeling through the pages of the trade paperback “Volume Three:…

How to cook fresh broccoli in less than five minutes:

All of us want to eat a little bit healthier these days but can’t seem the find the time to cook some fresh vegetables.  Here’s a quick recipe for cooking some fresh broccoli.

Ingredients: 

·          A small pot with a cover

·          Water

·          A pinch of salt

·          Broccoli  

First, get your pot and fill it with some water.  The amount of water you should use is enough to half submerge one piece of broccoli (about an inch depth of water into your pot).  Set the stove on high and throw a little bit of salt in there.  The water should start boiling in a few minutes.  

In the meantime, let’s cut some broccoli up. The…

So this week we have two of the somewhat big comedy movies of the year (in theory of course), with The Hangover and Land of the Lost. So let’s not waste anytime and get into the reviews.

First up, is the Hangover, starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms, as three guys going to Vegas for their friends bachelor party, which was apparently very awesome, because they wake up the next morning and have no idea what happened, and the groom is missing. This movie was directed by Todd Phillips who also did Old School, which I though was ok, although it began my starting to really hate Will Ferrell in movies (we can talk about that more later). I…

After a long day at work, I log onto my Facebook account and I see a group invite for a Petition to remove “Soldiers are not heroes” from Facebook. I quickly read the synopsis which is opposed to this separate group, “heroes,” whose basic belief is that we are too big into hero worshipping our soldiers and in opposition to the current wars that are going on.

I went to click on the link to confirm my membership, but something inside me hesitated. I’m sitting there with my mouse over the “Confirm Membership,” button and I start thinking, isn’t this censorship at its basic level? Just because we may not agree with something, does that give us the right to have…

When do you stop growing up? When are you the proper age to be considered an adult? 18? 21? 25? 35? For some, this is an ongoing process. Some feel too old to act immature yet others feel too young to take up real adult responsibilities. In the new film by Academy Award winning director, Sam Mendes and first time screenwriters, Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this process is examined. AWAY WE GO follows the story of Verona played by Maya Rudolph (SNL), an artist having a baby with her long-term boyfriend, Bert, an insurance agent played by John Krasinski (THE OFFICE). The couple is very much in love but what happens when pregnancy forces them into adulthood.

After the couple…

Please note that this post does contain some explicit language.  It is a part of the story’s dialogue and was left in for that reason.  Originally posted at http://teamtinsley.blogspot.com/

“Dad!” The Elder Boy called out from the stall next to mine. “I think I got a flea.”

We were both taking a crap in the public restroom and shower near our camp at Cedar Lake in the Ouachita National Forest.

“A flea?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he said. “Wait. I got two?!?”

A flea? Dirt would be more like it. The Boy hadn’t bathed, or shit for that matter the entire trip, and God only knew what he had found when he pulled down his jeans.

“Ok. I’m going to the bathroom too. Let me finish and…