Author: Steve DiMatteo

The Cable Guy, despite its all-star talent both in front of and behind the camera, has never truly gotten its due. Released during Jim Carrey’s absurd stretch in the ’90s that included Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Batman Forever, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, and Liar Liar, it seems as though The Cable Guy has always been regarded as something of a disappointing flop. But was it really? Though it has reached cult status in recent years, and despite the fact that it did make money when it came out (though not the incredible box office…

If you grew up in the ’90s, you know all about Gordon Bombay, the Flying V, and those “quack, quack, quack” chants, most often directed at authority figures. The Mighty Ducks was an integral part of many childhoods, and remains one of Disney’s very best live-action kids’ movies. The Mighty Ducks also existed in that time when Disney wasn’t so uptight about what it showed on screen, especially in its live-action fare. A movie like this had a little something for everybody, and also seemed to play fast and loose with more adult themes, such as Gordon Bombay flat-out chugging…

“For he’s a jolly good fellow, For he’s a jolly good fellow, For he’s a jolly good fellow, Which nobody can deny!” Great singing, everybody! Now, as you all know, this is Michael’s last day with the company. Tracy in accounting baked him this delicious cake and Randy over in marketing did one of his infamous cubicle pranks to really get the day revved up. And now, in our final send-off, we have collectively sung Michael’s praises, bestowing upon him the title of “jolly good fellow.” Through his three years here, Michael has truly done everything to live up to…

Source: Glenn Francis/Pacific Pro Digital Photography Pop star Taylor Swift has recently begun to throw out her political opinions, but I had no idea she would take this turn. In her new song “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince” off her album Lover, Swift has written what is quite clearly a love letter to QAnon, the mysterious figure at the center of a conspiracy theory in which QAnon is attempting to thwart a deep state plot to take down President Donald Trump from the likes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros. Don’t believe me that Swift is a…

Credit: Gage Skidmore I know this is the feeling-out period between voters and all six hundred of the 2020 Democratic contenders, but Pete Buttigieg just took himself out of the running in my mind with an absolutely SICKENING comment at the Iowa State Fair this week. While holding court at the Cedar County fairgrounds, Mayor Pete laid out his policy plans for rural America and spoke of his time as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He also ate all the customary fair food, rode rides, signed autographs and fielded any and all questions from those in attendance. Including a question…

Let’s Have Sax is our semi-regular column highlighting the lost art of saxophones in rock music – and the pressing need for them to return. Warren Zevon had a long, winding, and weird career, but he found his biggest commercial and critical success with his 1978 release Excitable Boy. And while everyone knows the great “Werewolves of London,” it’s not the best thing on the album. That’s reserved for the album’s title track. “Excitable Boy” is a supremely bizarre tale of a sadistic child who, after experimenting with some weird, though somewhat innocent, behavior, graduates to murdering his prom date,…

If you look in the toilet and are mortified at what is staring back at you, you’ve come to the right place. Many people are driven to search “Why is my poop black?” when their turds become darker than the night, and it’s completely understandable. No one likes looking into the void. You’ll find plenty of medical sites offering explanations for this unsettling occurrence, such as ingesting medications that contain bismuth or taking iron supplements. Hell, they’ll try to tell you that black stool is simply the cause of eating black food. That’s what you get for eating black licorice,…

Ever since Avengers: Endgame tore into theaters with a $357 million opening, the movie’s quest to dethrone Avatar as the top-grossing film of all time is all anybody can talk about. But the entire movie industry doesn’t just revolve around the Avengers, you know. We should be celebrating all achievements in film, such as the fact that Garfield: The Movie is the 771st largest movie in history, grossing just over $200 million worldwide in its 2004 run. Two-hundred million dollars is nothing to sneeze at! It made nearly $22 million in its opening weekend alone, recouping almost HALF of the…

At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos wiped out half the universe with a simple snap of his fingers. We watched as some of our favorite superheroes were turned to dust: Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Phone Ranger (probably)… the list goes on and on. But even as we saw all these heroes die off, along with trillions of other souls in the universe, it’s hard not to notice that the original Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, the Hulk – were all left standing. A little curious, don’t you…

We have our first basebrawl of the 2019 season, folks! Well, like many baseball fights these days, it was mostly a lot of guys standing in a giant huddle, pushing and shoving, but Yasiel Puig’s beef with the Pittsburgh Pirates seemed to have a little more edge to it, making this particular pushing and shoving match just a little bit better. On Sunday, April 7, Pirates starter Chris Archer threw behind Cincinnati Reds hitter Derek Dietrich as punishment for gloriously pimping a majestic home run he hit off Archer in the second inning. You know it’s a HR when the…