In an ocean of shit, even a dead horse can smell good.

It’s a pretty lean day in terms of ideas for posts so I decided to turn to the wayback machine and youtube.
Back in the 90’s MTV had a sketch comedy show called The State. It was a success on MTV but failed to win any viewers when it was picked up by CBS soon after. […]

There’s an ass-ton of stupid in this world. So much that it takes more and more outrageous instances of idiocy to even get us to sit up and take notice. There’s nothing much you can do to escape it but there’s plenty you can do to mitigate its effects. One such thing is to take […]

I write this post at the risk of being trite. Lists of “important” movies are all the rage these days on blogs and, although I agree that many of the movies appearing on those lists are good, I don’t feel that many of them are important. As I considered this question on my way home […]

I was going to title this post “2006: The Year Without Movies” because it really felt like I hardly ever went to the movies last year. When I sat down today and began checking off the number of movies I saw in the theaters I came up with 15. This caused me to pause and […]

Today’s post was written by Jennifer, who will be an occasional contributor to The Science of Apathy.
Liking David Lynch is kind of embarrassing. Last night, I attended the Chicago premiere of Inland Empire with Lynch himself live and in person at a cuter reincarnation of the Club Silencio, the vintage Music Box Theatre. Several hours […]