Back in June, I put together a list of the 10 Least-threatening Pro Wrestlers Named 'Ricky'. That got me thinking about the most threatening wrestlers named Ricky, which eventually brought me...

Firstly, I'd like to give a big, formal thank you to m'main man Bill Hanstock for filling in on last week's Arbitrary Friday List, The 15 Greatest Characters In Magnolia, even if he didn't use my...

It's Arbitrary Friday List time! Join us as we count down the characters from "Magnolia." No, Tom Cruise's boner doesn't get its own entry.

Over the last few weeks, the Arbitrary Friday List has covered everything from popular culture to The Holy Bible and everything inbetween, so I wanted to stop alienating people and write about...

Not counting artists who worked exclusively in the medium of pantless ducks, Jack Kirby is the most creative, most talented man to ever work on comic books. Kirby created or co-created so many...

If you don't know me personally, my favorite films are (in order) -- Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Newt Arnold's Bloodsport (1988). There are a...

Finally, we get to the point of the Arbitrary Friday List column. I didn't bring you here to make you laugh. Did you know that Jesus has a plan for you? One of the things that ties the...

While I'd like to hack out a nice living writing about which of Michelle Tanner's friends I hated most, my full-time gig is being editor-in-chief at With Leather and writing its popular Best And...

In the late 1980s, pitchman Jim Varney parlayed a series of local commercials into mainstream film and television success as "Ernest P. Worrell", an innocent, rubber-faced everyman for...

The early days of Progressive Boink were built around nostalgia posts—i.e., me saying "hey do you remember the game excitebike" or whatever and people going OH MY GOD YES and reading about...