Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
e.Peak (31/10/2005) news: science: Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth : "ST. JOHN’S, Nfld — Supporters of marijuana may finally have an excuse to smoke weed every day. A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that smoking pot can make the brain grow."
SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Last month I wondered what was up with Vince Young and I had this comment to close the article. And now Miami Dolphin running back and fellow Texas alum Ricky Williams is empathizing with Young. My prediction is pretty soon you’ll see Ricky and Vince driving around the country in a beat up old van with [...]
CHARMING, JUST CHARMING (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
People, a Cheech and Chong skit allowed that if it looked like shit, smelled like shit, and tasted like shit then don't step in it. Obama's fund raising activity appears to meet the criteria and I think there is some shit going on here. Obama may be a foreigner posing as an American and running for prez..or he may be just a socialist who with the backing of his cult followers has come out of the socialist...
Splat! (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Generally speaking there are not too many avenues down which the human imagination seems to pass down when it comes to asking our dearly beloved…
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
James Franco is featured on the cover of this month’s Interview, looking just like James Dean in the cover image. Franco’s is interviewed by Gus Van Sant, who directs him as Harvey Milk’s lover Scott Smith in the new movie Milk. On being an art collector: The first piece of art that I ever bought - when [...]
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Question: What do Diane Lane, Laura Dern, the Sex Pistols and the director of Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke" have in common?
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The NDP candidate in North Vancouver is a clown.He is also an alien, an anarchist, a cowboy, an FBI agent and a piano teacher.''I'm not really a doctor,'' he said, ''but I play one on TV.''
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The Wall Street crisis demonstrates Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain either truly doesn't know what he's talking about on the US economy, or he's utterly hypocritical. Or both. - Muhammad Cohen (Sep 22, '08)
Population Statistic (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
In an attempt to force synergy between the normally mutually-exclusive spheres of team sports and popular music, The Spin Blog ponders why football doesn’t have a signature song. For starters, there’s no football equivalent to Paul Simon’s immortal Joe DiMaggio shout-out on “Mrs. Robinson.” Football doesn’t have its own version of John Fogerty’s, “Centerfield” or, to [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Cheech and Chong, the beloved pot smoking actors from the 70's are going on their first comedy tour in 25 years. After thinking about it for a while, they came up with the title "Light Up America and Canada Tour 2008." Cheech and Chong At The MySpace Comedy Secret Stand Up Show Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have endured years of jail and community service to get back on stage and bring their stoner...
LAist (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
With glass pipes billowing pot smoke as they're passed around, and a room full of rowdy anxious stoners and stoner-comedy-lovers, Cheech and Chong delilvered the goods at the Roxy in West Hollywood last Wednesday with their new tour Cheech and Chong Light Up America . They started with the bit now made famous as the first scene in their film Up in Smoke , and then two hours of all their classic bits,...
The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
By Erik Pedersen The movie biz may be wallowing in remakes and Indiana Jones-flavored nostalgia, but that doesn't mean a reunion of Cheech and Chong is a no-brainer. The duo known for their red-eyed high-jinks --long before Harold & Kumar...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
For Cheech and Chong, comedy chemistry is forever. "It's like a work of nature," says Cheech Marin of his bond with partner Tommy ...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
With Cheech and Chong rolling into town for two Saturday night shows, we thought you might like to get in the right frame of mind. There's no denying that altered states are what first spring to mind when talking about the stars of the seminal stoner film "Up in Smoke," so we decided to peek through the fog at some of the all-time great cannabis-influenced comedies:
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Of all the futile exercises I’ve seen in recent years, this latest wizard wheeze from the Beeb’s Newsnight takes the biscuit… Newsnight wants you to help decide the UK’s greatest and worst post-war prime minister. Find out more about the 12 PMs below, then use the form to rank them in order of greatness. Oh FFS… okay, [...]
