St. Patrick’s Day: Enjoy Your Filthy Irish Day, Filthy Irish People
(Please note: I don’t actually hate the Irish. Oh, how I love to pretend that I do, though.) I remember it like it was yesterday. 1993. A 12-year-old John Papageorgiou […]
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RIP Nate Dogg
So Nate Dogg is dead at the age of 41. Is it racist that I just assumed he’d been shot? Turns out, Nate’s been battling health issues for a few […]
Aflac Fires Gilbert Gottfried for his Japanese Tsunami Jokes
Yesterday, the multi-national insurance giant Aflac fired the voice of its duck mascot, the company’s commercial spokescreature for over a decade, Gilbert Gottfried. It seems that Gilbert letting loose with […]
Papa’s Basement 3-14-11-Japan:Tsunamis, Nuclear Meltdowns and Sim City
Great. Japan is one of the few countries I actually wanted to visit, and now an earthquake has led to a tsunami which has led to a meltdown which might […]
Celebrities Worth Following on Twitter
If you follow folks like Katie Perry or Kim Kardashian on Twitter, I won’t judge you (outside of assuming that you’re a vapid stooge and somehow even less intelligent than […]
My Favorite Movie Quotes
I watch a lot of movies because I’m an asocial homebody and they do all the living for me. Why play sports when I can just watch Major League or […]
F You, Sonic the Hedgehog
I spent my elementary school years playing the Nintendo Entertainment System the way the Asian kids studied math. It was a glorious time. There were no system wars: You owned […]
Papa’s Basement 3-7-11-Aftermath
How did my 30th birthday turn out? Where will co-host Billy Basil decide to spend his 28th birthday? How stupid and unaware can our callers get? All this and more […]
Two Reasons You Need to Watch Blade Runner
Ridley Scott has had an extremely prolific and successful career as a director. The man is responsible for Alien, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator (and, Thelma & Louise, strangely enough), just […]
I Don’t Get the Charlie Sheen Thing
For a week now, the world has endured Charlie Sheen deluging it with insane rant after insane rant like a fire hose attached to a hydrant of batshit crazy. Yesterday, […]
Fare Thee Well, Subway’s Februany Promotion
February’s been an amazing month for me: I turned 30, got a radio show on the station I grew up listening to and, most important by far, I’ve been eating […]
Papa’s Basement 2-28-11-On This, the Day of Your Birth
I drag my butt into the studio rather than spend my 30th birthday in the bottle to cover Charlie Sheen and his batshit ravings. Papa’s Basement 2-28-11 (Left-click this link […]
I Love Watching Me Some Thursday Night Television
As each week winds down, there is one event I still look forward to with youthful enthusiasm. Is it dressing up and going out with friends on Friday night to […]
Patrick Stewart Campaigning for Assisted Dying Makes Me Uncomfortable
Yesterday, I spent two of my six non-porn-related online minutes reading this article about Patrick Stewart and his efforts to get assisted dying (apparently “assisted suicide” isn’t PC anymore) legalized […]
Papa’s Basement 2-23-11-The Art of the Sext
For months now I’ve wanted to do an episode with a few of my friends from one of the radio stations I work at. Today was the day it went […]