Dave on September 26th, 2008
This week, I started a new column at 411 Mania. 411 is your one-stop shop for all the pop culture you could ever need (except the pop culture you need from MINE).
For my first trick, I shall attempt to go year by year, starting in 1975, and talk about the movies that I think are the best, performing two full rotations in mid air, over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly, through a hogshead of real fire, landing in this half-filled glass of water.
A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Dave on September 5th, 2008
The Internet can’t hide anymore. And neither can the Terry family of Portland, Oregon. 
Their son was traveling in Vancouver in July and used his AirCard to access the Internet around 21 times. Turns out Vancouver is technically in some foreign country called “Ca-na-da,” which means all those charges were international charges. When the bill came, it was 200 pages long and weighed in at a back breaking $19,370.
The family is trying to get AT&T to give them a break because they didn’t warn them when the bill topped $1,000, since no family can reasonably be expected to know and understand its own phone plan or monitor its own spending. Barring a favorable resolution with the phone conglomerate, the Terrys will likely become fugitives, living off the land, roaming the earth like Kain from Kung Fu, but in a station wagon. Unless they have to sell it to pay that phone bill.
