It's A Celebration, Bitches!

DVD reviews: Jigoku and Ultraman! And, of course, The Big Screen.

Elsewhere:

NPR story on Toynbee Tiles.

Alfie Kohn has written a book called The Homework Myth, making the case that children are assigned too much homework in school, and that most homework is bullshit anyway. Larry Mantle has an excellent interview up with Kohn. Also check Larry's interview with Arthur Frank Wertheim, author of The Vaudeville Wars.

TACO checks out my favorite restaurant, La Parilla (I go to the more-convenient-to-me Silverlake location). Also, a new food blog: Colorado Chow, which focuses on food along Colorado Blvd., the main strip that runs through Glendale, Pasadena and Eagle Rock (ie, my "hood").

Another great L.A. anthem: Trip City USA!

Christianist Propaganda Posters (give it a minute to load).

Hey, it's National Banned Books Week. Apparantly, a Where's Waldo? book has been challenged due to a beach picture that shows a woman in a bikini (so said the AOL quiz yesterday). Here's the list of this year's most challenged books, including the ever-controversial Captain Underpants (for "anti-family content").