Walmart: America’s Largest Crime Scene

Here’s my Dealerscope Week in Electronics Retail Crime Black Friday edition, in which the same retailer comes up again and again…

Bye Bye Barney

Barney Frank is retiring from Congress; he’ll be missed:

Frank certainly deserves better than the right-wing caricature of him, which is that he is somehow singlehandedly to blame for the 2008 financial crisis. At any rate, I really hope he decides to launch a TV career.

The Kyle Orton Trade Tree

This is kind of awesome. Other than the smell of the grass, the crack of the bat, and all the father/son/”Field of Dreams” stuff, transaction mania has to be my favorite thing about sports. And here we go with the baseball Winter Meetings and NBA post-lockout chaos, both the same week!

Kermit Lives

My reviews of two of the year’s best movies, “Hugo” and “The Muppets,” are online at Patch.

Fire’s Cool

My review of the Amazon Kindle Fire is online at E-Gear.com.

Nothing More to Buy, Ever

The Boston Phoenix’s history of the recently shuttered Columbia House record club was a great read. I had a buddy in high school who signed up under probably dozens of assumed names and sold off the surplus disks at a huge profit.

Film Critic Quote of the Week

Dustin Rowles of Pajiba on “Jack and Jill”

I�ve seen Adam Sandler�s Jack and Jill. If there is a God, he might allow a fire whirl to kill 40,000 human beings in 15 minutes, but no God could be cruel and inhumane enough to allow this movie to exist, to be screened in front of millions of innocent people. It�s incomprehensible. No God would allow Adam Sandler to dress up as his own twin sister, to prance around in a dress and a wig and speak with a lisp that would haunt even demons, demons that couldn�t handle the emotional carnage that Female Sandler inflicts. It�s too much ugly… Jack and Jill is not a movie; it�s a weapon of mass destruction that not even Stalin would�ve been sick enough to use.
Jack and Jill will never be forgotten; the power of its awfulness is enough to break through the rift of space and time, to sear through the universe and destroy black holes.