The Back-Talk Mailbag makes a welcome return, allowing Ian to side-step a culinary mishap and compliment Control.
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Archives for the month of: July, 2009
This week, Chris and Ian take Steve Jones, the work of Martin Lawrence, and poor TV censorship to task. What do they praise? Once, Anne Hathaway, Resident Evil 5, and, yes, Megan Fox. Distractions include: Chris's dog, Billy, Chris's microwave (name unknown), and miscellaneous white noise (Skynet?)
In a move sure to surprise no-one, matters of a romantic nature captivate Chris and Ian. DISCLAIMER: this is not Episode Ten. Any reference suggesting otherwise should be ignored.
The arrival of Low Standards' new site is contextualized and celebrated in customarily verbose fashion. Your hosts' recent Manchester meet-cute is recounted, lending further weight to the question marks already hanging over the pair's relationship. The notion of truth pops up here and there, and Chris and Ian sock it to Geraldo Rivera and Bill ...
Two years ago, I wrote a summer movie retrospective ("Autopsy") for the first issue of Low Standards for High Fives' Grandiloquent Vagaries & Other Miscellany. The print magazine, not the blog. The blog came after the magazine (bone up on your Grandiloquent history here.) The centerpiece of that feature was a review of Michael Bay's ...
Since May, I've been committing the writerly equivalent of leaving my leg in Piranha-infested waters. Instead of writing reviews of movies shortly after viewing them, I've procrastinated. I've procrastinated so much, in fact, that my memories of these films are now fun-size. It's up to you to let me know if anything good comes of ...
That's a fact. We do it. In the name of freedom, in this country in the name of national security. If we don't do it directly, we permit it by allowing planes carrying out extraordinary rendition to land and refuel in our country. Failing that, we send people (sorry 'enemy combatants') to other countries that will ...
We’re talking about the press. A societal unit, responsible for providing people with information and developments around the globe, in a country or a local area. Information and development essential for our understanding of the currents and eddies of human existence at any given moment. Some of it good, some of it terrible and a ...
If there's any doubt that this blog moonlights as an advertising outlet for CHUD.com then this post should do to that uncertainty what reality did to TV. Noel Gallagher once sang "true perfection has to be imperfect." Whether you agree or not, there's no denying he's in the majority. One need only look at movie fans ...
An entire discussion of retail elapses without a single mention of Clerks. Enter the title homage. Chris and Ian do, however, have time to discuss WWE style security guards, a "toy-fight" gone knifey involving an old acquaintance, and Chewbacca's Bandolier Strap action figure carry case. Chris also evidences (Judd) Nelsonian harshness with a recollection of ...
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