Someone recently asked me if you could tell if someone had a crystal meth habit by looking at their teeth.  And the answer is a resounding: Hell yeah!  Just like you can tell if someone is bulimia (pitting of the enamel on the back of the teeth).  Or if they smoke (thick generalized stain).  The teeth offer a lot of clues to a person’s habits.  Below is a classic example of Meth Mouth.  This is [...]

I always get excited the week before a new CD comes about, especially when I’ve ben waiting over 2 years for a new album.  Many times, I am rewarded for my patience with an awesome album.  The new Chevelle Album, Sci-Fi Crimes, is an excellent example, and you can check out my review of it here.  From beginning to end, I was blown away. Unfortunately, when I popped in Life Starts Here, I wasn’t afforded [...]

And the runner-up prize to the sparkling, insane speech by Gaddafi goes to… envelope please…  HUGO CHAVEZ!! (Applause) After listening to the logical, coherent, sobering words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who offered even MORE proof of the Holocaust as well as explained the danger of a nuclear Iran, the viewers were treated to the verbal musings of yet another madman, Venezuelan president Hug Chavez. Now, nothing can top Gaddafi, but Chavez’s speech was [...]

This is a re-post from an older post, so though my daughter has been born and is named, all of the verbs are past tense.  i apologize.  Please don’t hate me. Before my first son was born, I thought that the actual physical preparation would be the toughest part, you know, buying stuff, setting stuff up, getting ready.  But I was wrong.  the hardest part was deciding on a name, and I think that eventually coming [...]

I’ll qualify this by saying that I own every X-men comic book from #129, the beginning of the Dark Phoenix Saga, to the present.  I like to think that i am an expert on the X-men.  I am geek-certified.  That being said, let’s get to it. I remember the good old days.  The days when there was a single team.  A coherent team.  Though the members changed over the years, the book always focused on a [...]

I have a hard time reviewing music.  Let’s get this out of the way.  I know what I like, and I know what I don’t like.  In fact, music is so subjective, i don;t know how anyone reviews it.  It can be easier with a movie: how is the plot, how is the acting, how is the directing.  But music is much more subjective.  If you love a band, there’s a good chance you’ll love anything [...]

I wasn’t in New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  But I was close, across the river in Newark.  You could see the Twin Towers when you stepped out the doors to the dental school. I remember seeing the Towers that morning, as I saw them every morning.  I remember watching the aftermath of the attacks on the television in the student lounge.  I remember going outside several minutes later and looking at the smoking [...]