“Jean Teasdale has been The Onion’s resident humor and human-interest columnist since 1990. In addition to writing, Jean has held more than thiry-five part time jobs, and has been fired from more than thirty. She has been married to tire-technician Richard “Rick” Teasdale for nearly twenty years. Jean resides in the Midwest, where she pursues many varied interests, including collecting figurines, making ghosts out of of facial tissue, and testing out many “as seen on TV” products.”

My Year of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from Rabin’s avclub.com column along with loads of bonus features. These include interviews with talent from the films chronicled, a new introduction and postscript, illustrations by Danny Hellman and fifteen new entries on everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy and The Last Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Gospel Road, Johnny Cash’s homemade tribute to Jesus.

Wow, that what I call a quality cover of a quality song. Lovely! It’s fun to see Glen’s face go from white to red to purple and back again.

Lists! Perfect for the bathroom: 13 particularly horrible fast-food innovations, 24 great films too painful to watch twice, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, 11 video games that prompted fear and outrage, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists!

Wow, here’s a very thorough list of Onion stories documenting a most baffling and enraging 8 years. To put it mildly. Highlights: June 20, 2001: Bush Trying To Decide How To Spend His Tax Refund March 6, 2002: Bush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs By 2003. September 11, 2002: Bush Won’t [...]

Porcelain Suffers Crushing Defeat: I like Kevin Smith a lot (the man, not his movies), he’s a funny no-bullshit kind of guy and a very informed movie reviewer. So I’m sad to hear (and see!) just how obese he has gotten. Smith recently broke a toilet. Ooof! Pull it together Kev, quit the pot, hit [...]