by A.J. Focht
Last Wednesday saw the first big batch of DC’s new 52 released. Reviews were as mixed as they were for Justice League #1 the previous week. A few of the comics were praised here and there, but there seems to be one clear winner for the week. Animal Man #1 has caught everyone’s attention, and I have yet to hear a bad word about it. For reviews on all of last week’s releases, check out Nerd Bastards‘ full report.
Potential major *SPOILERS* for The Avengers have been leaked. If you don’t want to know who the big secret villain is, just skip the next paragraph.
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by Daniel Robert Epstein
“It reads like some stoner wrote it.”
– Tommy Chong
Well, its official: hell has frozen over, the fat lady has sung, and Tommy Chong has quit smoking pot. Apparently after you smoke weed everyday for 50 years and then are forced to quit cold turkey when youre thrown in prison, you lose your taste for it. Hopefully that will never happen to me. I got a chance to talk with Chong about his time in prison, his new book The I Chong which lays out his philosophies and whether or not he thinks Cheech Marin has sold out.
Read our exclusive interview with Tommy Chong on SuicideGirls.com.
Opaque Suicide in Carnivale
- INTO: Forest gardening, crop circles, natural earth homes – cob cottages, human evolution of the spirit, living in balance with nature, people who take action and control of their own lives, healthy organic nourishment and sound food production practices, cyclical thought/living.
- NOT INTO: Unconscious consumption, genetically modified organisms / Monsanto, pesticides, knowledge but no action, broken natural cycles, mindless obedience, those who let others determine the sequence of their life, linear thought/living.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Too many things to list…sunshine, stars, tea, friends, laughter, a warm sweater on a chilly day, good music, good food, homemade pie, ecologically minded humans, action, evolution, thought, but mostly elderberry wine.
- MAKES ME SAD: The abuse and destruction of our mother earth.
- HOBBIES: Reading, making things, cooking & baking like a whore.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Food, water, shelter –– that’s only 3?
- VICES: Smoking!
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Wondering what to do with it.
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by Jensen
I tried to recreate these amazingly delicious mozzarella phyllo dough stick things from my favorite restaurant at a town I used to live in, and I failed miserably. Deciding I needed to try something different with my second roll of phyllo (fillo, whatever), I figured you can’t really fuck anything up when butter, chocolate, and peanut butter are involved. So I made up this baklava type concoction that would surely piss off any old Russian grandma. It’s super easy to make, you just have to be delicate with the dough. And it might be a little bit tedious.
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By Fred Topel
“I want to write to what seems like a fitting ending to the series.” – Charlie Day
FX introduced the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to the Television Critics Association with their series of four unique TV spots. With one spot for each character, they feature the gang in overly dramatic situations that are innately hilarious, because it’s the gang.
Charlie Day’s was a Miracle Worker spoof where Danny DeVito teaches him to read and pump water. Charlie’s character is known to be illiterate. After the gang’s presentation to the critics, I got some quality time with Day as he walked from the stage to his next interview. It was a little shorter than the usual interview, but still a solid walk and talk. The Sunny gang and I go way back. At one TCA party, I rode Santa Monica pier rides with Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney, and I was on the set of their classic “Charlie Writes a Musical” episode.
Day created the show with Howerton and McElHenney and hired Kaitlin Olsen for the FX show. Danny DeVito joined the show in season two, and the gang has relentlessly practiced hilariously bad behavior. They regularly take the politically incorrect position on hot button topics like abortion and the economic crisis (see episodes like “Dee and Dennis Go On Welfare”).
As with any success, movies came calling. Day has costarred in studio comedies like Going the Distance and Horrible Bosses. His next movie will be Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Sunny is signed for at least two more seasons on FX and Day addressed all of that, plus his standards of The Green Guy and Charlie’s crush on the waitress in the time we had.
Read our exclusive interview with Charlie Day on SuicideGirls.com.
Popcorn Suicide in Wicker Castle By The Sea
- MAKES ME SAD: Boys.
- HOBBIES: Hanging out in Paris.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Red wine and friends.
- VICES: Les Petits Cochons.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: On Facebook.
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