Cinefamily is having their first ever Fantastic Elastic 24hr Holiday Telethon Event today! The Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood is opening its doors for FREE, and keeping them open, for one jam packed day bursting the seams with stars, screenings, special guests, band performances, and giveaways. Highlights include programs and appearances by Spike Jonze, Benicio del Toro, Robert Forester, Michael Cera, Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, screenwriters Josh Olson (A History of Violence) and Larry Karaszewski, Neil Hamburger, DJ Lance Rock, and many many more! The line-up is amazing!
The …

No, people, I do not know how they survived childhood.

Gabe and Dennis help fellas get laid. Too bad they don’t take their own advise.

Gabe and Dennis toss their salads. I know. I know.

Racket has a wide variety of talented specialists creating engaging content to help you keep up on the latest trends and releases. We also have Original Knockoff, our video production team who works for booze and does shit like this. What is this, you ask? Why, this is what functioning alcoholics look like at home with other functioning alcoholics.

Holy fuck. I am turning 30. I’m pretty sure at some point I will need to be a full-blown grown-up. As such, I am going to put some pricey ass shit in here as I describe how I expect shit to go down as I celebrate turning the big 3-0.
First thing’s first, I am gonna need some booze. Wait, first thing’s first, I’m gonna need a camera to document all the cool things my REALLY cool friends are bound to get me. This will probably be the Flip MinoHD 8 …

So, it seems that the Santa Cruz Derby Girls (Well, mostly their hippie friends and boyfriends trying to show how forward-thinking and feminist they were for standing up to my blatant sexism) were none too pleased with my previous article about Roller Derby. I happen to know one of the SCDG ladies and waved hi and she smiles, turns to her team and I hear “That’s the guy who wrote ‘The Article.’” Now, I have fought my fair share of women (I mean, who hasn’t?!), but a whole team at …

Roller derby combines some of my favorite things: hot (usually tattooed) chicks, violence, action and puns. All of these things are awesome, put them together and you have roller derby, a predominantly female sport since, let’s face it, VERY few people want to see men in booty shorts skate in circles. One of the Angel City Derby Girls (who apparently have been invited to the Western regional tournament of the biggest governing body of roller derby, the WFTDA) explained to me how this goes, but I kept getting sidetracked with …

Michael Ian Black- Very Famous
Comedy Central Records
6/10
Watch out kids, there’s a new comedy CD from Michael Ian Black, or as I like to call him- The Notorious MIB. You may remember him from such shows as The State, VH1′s I Love The…,  or as the other Michael from Stella. But even if you don’t, he’d like to assure you all he is Very Famous. Even his child’s cancer-patient hat and vacant expression staring from the CD cover fill you with the vague feeling that you once may have bought …

While at San Diego Comic-Con, attendees are privy to many things — fancy costumes, the occasional celebrity sighting, exclusive movie previews, large crowds. Though many of us are happy to take home memories or small bits of free swag thrown our way, many SDCC goers dive for the more tangible things — Comic-Con exclusives.
This year the Disney Store is joining the party. Only at Comic-Con, in collaboration with Funko, they will be selling limited edition POP! Vinyl figurines — a fuzzy flocked Sully, a glow in the dark Mike Wazowski, …

It’s that time again! Cram into that body suit, buff up on your trivia, and get yourself down to San Diego for the 2011 Comic-Con where the fabulous and not so fabulous come to gawk, gather, and geek out.  This year we decided to make Comic-Con is our awkward, slightly tubby, overzealous muse by preparing a collection of our famous haikus about all our favorite quintesssinaly Comic-Con things in honor of nerds everywhere.
 

Oh, Food Network, how you tease me with your hip New York and Westside LA food trucks with Vietnamese tacos and wasabi ice cream and, uh, I don’t know, hot dogs. Well, as a resident of the Inland Empire, I can finally enjoy a plethora of food trucks myself at the 2011 Inland Empire Food Truck Festival, to be held today at the Citizen’s Bank Arena in Ontario, CA from 11-6, or 10 AM if you wanna get in on the early bird special.
Since food trucks are pretty much banned …

Set your watches to Adventure Time!  Lines were out the door for Gallery Nucleus’ Adventure Time art opening celebrating the show’s one year anniversary. From its humble beginnings as a whimsical short  about distraught rainacorns, punching wizards, riding penguins, and doing it to the max, Adventure Time made its way to Cartoon Network and blossomed into the full blown twisted candy-coated fever dream the show is today.
The event featured special appearances by voices from the show and guest artists, and signings by the show’s creator Pendelton Ward himself.  Racket was …

We here at Racket love two things- Food and a reason to drink. Thanksgiving Day is about both these things. It’s the one time of year that being seen gnawing on a giant turkey leg and drunkenly hitting on your cousin is acceptable even in non-jousting related settings. It’s a glorious celebration of all things fat and sassy. Sure, belts might be a little tighter this round, but we are here to show that hard times and invasive new TSA regulations doesn’t mean Thanksgiving this year can’t be fun.

I am well on my way to being a grumpy old man. I shake my head at new fashion trends, new music genres and whatever it is that passes for a haircut these days. When I see a scrawny little shit in a metal-core shirt and skinny jeans, I just wonder what would REALLY happen if I gave him a wedgie. But, at the 2007 Warped Tour is when I began to notice something; amongst the pseudo-carnies peddling $9 burritos and $4 Gatorade, there were booths, tents and even Truth.com’s …

“If you’re going through hell, keep going”
- Winston Churchill
Lately, I’ve felt like sticking my head into a big pot of boiling water until the wealth of the gay-90s magically returns. Like many recent college grads my degree has failed to manifest itself into a well-paying (or anything-paying) job. In fact, all my poli-sci education has basically enabled me to do is tell you the entire history and inner workings of the European Union (it exists), quote Tocqueville and participate in juicy pillow talk about Ben Franklin. Shockingly, these are skills …