Weblog Sin Pies

By Charley Daniels

I added “Culver City news” to my Google News homepage because I live in Culver City and it’d be nice to know what’s going on around here. So far, no good. The typical story that ends up in the Culver City news section is not so much newsworthy as it is, well, crappy. Take right now, for instance, where the story at the very top of the stack, news position one in that section, is this:

Recipe: Grilled pineapple with rum and long pepper glaze

Dial down the flames to a slow burn and watch pineapple luxuriously transform.

Delicious, yes, but is it really the top story of the day for Culver City? I mean, I can understand having that there in the morning, before the real movers and shakers have had a chance to go out and make headlines, but it’s the end of the day. Nothing more noteworthy has happened around here? Just the grilled pineapple thing?

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Speaking of grilled pineapple, Dane is undertaking a real grueling task by eating vegan for a month and blogging about it. Now this is a guy who I’ve spent one evening with, during which he ate an entire chicken, the expensive part of a cow, and a hunk of emu leather. The whole hunk. And I hear he doesn’t like vegetables much. So you should probably subscribe to his blog for the next month, because I’m pretty sure we’re in for an animal-product-and-byproduct-free treat.

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And lastly, Hancock hasn’t been doing great in the first few reviews that have been trickling out. It has a 40% on RottenTomatoes, which really isn’t so bad in the current movie climate, but it sounds like it may take a dive in the coming days as more critics weigh in. That said, I was still ready to enjoy it, especially since it strikes me as just the type of film that a lot of critics won’t like, yet may still be fun to watch.

But then I spoke to T.L. Stanley about it today. Going in she seemed to be genuinely enthusiastic. Coming out, however, she seems utterly disappointed:

In a word: terrible.

Ouch. That’s a shame, but I’m still planning to see it, because you never know!