Apparently it's all the rage today, so The New Yorker offers a cinematic and cultural history of the confectionery missile, as does Sl...

Mythical Monkey, who knows his stuff, posts an "excerpt from my upcoming essay about early silent film comedy" — specifically, th...

Back in May, in my post about Blazing Saddles , I wrote: It seems to me that we could use a new Blazing Saddles right about now. By that I...

"Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, but it expressed a courage that is little seen in this day and age." — Olson Johns...