. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The Original Faces of Death: 30th Anniversary Edition Before the internet allowed us to watch footage of people being mauled by animals for free,  any aspiring video age Percival had to search high and low for quality smut, and there was no relic so highly prized as [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon (Surgeon General’s Warning: May Cause Hemorrhoids if Read on the Toilet) FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Haunted Houses Halloween is here and that means it’s time to make the pilgrimage to haunted houses. Here are the three must-visit haunted destinations in Southern California: Spooky House Haunted Theme Park (Chatsworth, CA): Looks can [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Honk! Festival of Street Bands What happens to all of those awkward, yet enthusiastic high school and college-age souls who take off their shakos and leave behind the sex-crazed, drug addled lifestyle of the marching band? Well, it seems that many of them have thankfully forgotten to [...]

/ A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Religulous / An American Carol Not since 2004’s The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11 have two movies been released that so perfectly represent the opposing views in our national Cold War of ideology. While it’s almost a given that Maher’s film (directed by Borat helmer [...]

A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Neil Diamond in Concert The Oughts have been very good to Neil Diamond. Like his fellow pop-culture roller-coaster rider William Shatner (both “Solitary Man” and Star Trek first appeared in 1966), for a long time it looked like the career trajectory for both men was going to be [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon On the subject of what to do this weekend… FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The food at the Los Angeles County Fair. While Southlanders on low-carb diets may equate a trip to the fair with the Bataan Death March, for those of us who assume that technology will advance fast enough in [...]